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300 "Here is a man who was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. He grew up in another village. He worked in a carpenter shop until He was thirty, and then for three years He was an itinerate preacher. He never owned a home. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never had a family. He never went to college. He never put his foot inside a big city. He never traveled two hundred miles from the place where He was born. He never did one of the things that usually accompany greatness. He had no credentials but Himself . . . While still a young man, the tide of popular opinion turned against Him. His friends ran away. One of them denied Him. He was turned over to His enemies. He went through the mockery of a trial. He was nailed upon a cross between two thieves. While He was dying His executors gambled for the only piece of property He had on earth—his coat. When He was dead, He was taken down and laid in a borrowed grave through the pity of a friend. Nineteen long centuries have come and gone, and today He is the centerpiece of the human race and the leader of the column of progress. I am far within the mark when I say that all the armies that ever marched, all the navies that ever were built; all the parliaments that ever sat and all the kings that ever reigned, put together, have not affected the life of man upon this earth as powerfully as that one solitary life."29 Mahatma Gandhi's earlier statement concerning the indifference to the historicity of Jesus sounds strange to Christians whose Bible makes the historical Jesus, and one's response to Him, the issue of eternal life and eternal death (damnation). "I have never been interested in a historical Jesus. I should not care if it were proved by someone that the man called Jesus never lived, and that what was narrated in the Gospels were a figment of the writer's imagination. For the Sermon on the Mount would still be true for me."30 Such indifference to the historicity of Jesus is nonsensical from a Christian standpoint. Not only in the Sermon on the Mount, but throughout all His teaching, Jesus frames the issue in such a way that the question of who He was and is cannot be avoided. We are not asked to simply accept His teaching, but to accept Him. This is true even in the Sermon on the Mount which so often is used as a pretext for claiming that who Jesus was is un-important. He refers to Himself in this famous Sermon as the Judge on the Day of Judgment who will be standing at the gate of heaven allowing only those who can pass His judgment to "enter the kingdom" (Mt 7:21-23). Our primary purpose, therefore, is not to find a religion or believe a doctrine, but to have a personal encounter with a Person—Jesus Christ. Not a voice among many voices, but the Voice. Not a teacher among many teachers, but the Teacher. Not a gate among many gates, but the Gate. Not a road among many roads, but the Road. Not a savior among many saviors, but the Savior. Not a lord among many lords, but the Lord. Not a king among many kings, but the King.
301 As we end our journey of examining who Jesus is, we must embrace not only His authoritative teaching and believe in His miracles, but even more important, we must embrace the Preacher, the Teacher, the Person—Jesus Christ—vere Deus and vere homo—very God and very Man: the God-Man.
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1 JESUS CHRIST: GOD-MAN Lars Wilhel
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3 PREFACE If we miss who Jesus is,
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5 INTRODUCTION
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There is a vicious battle going on
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9 Within a few centuries Jesus had
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11 I. THE RELIGIOUS LANDSCAPE
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ago: 13 Charles Haddon Spurgeon, th
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15 Here we see the extreme deceptiv
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17 Throughout history we have witne
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19 Although at first it may seem th
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21 MODERNITY German theologian Wolf
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23 THE CALL TO SEEK AND BATTLE FOR
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25 2. ORTHODOXY AND HERESY
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This anti-Christian influence was n
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29 The Apollinarians denied the int
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31 "And in one Lord Jesus Christ, t
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33 there are now two persons or two
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35 ● "They crucified the Lord of
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37 Although the Jehovah's Witnesses
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39 The Way International cult belie
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41 4. EXCLUSIVE SALVATION. Because
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The cultist takes pride in his lack
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Due to the obscurity of Judea in th
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"What advantage did the Jews gain f
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49 It is the opinion of Professor P
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51 4. THE ESSENCE OF ORTHODOX CHRIS
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53 No theologian in all of church h
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55 THE WITNESS OF THE HEBREW SCRIPT
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57 OTHER CREDENTIALS OF JESUS AS TH
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59 "The manuscript for Science Spea
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61 John further emphasizes how cruc
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63 humanity and is made on the basi
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65 "If Jesus Christ is only morally
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67 "I have been reading poems, roma
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69 For what I received I passed on
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71 INSPIRATION "The test of truth i
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73 This is called the "classical" v
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75 Verbal Inspiration Historically
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77 ". . . most disastrous consequen
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79 There is no denial that there ar
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81 Much of Old Testament historical
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83 Apocalyptic The books of Daniel
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85 Scripture is uniquely reliable b
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87 Moreover, they themselves were c
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"In regard to the Great Book I have
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91 Reliability or Accuracy of the B
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Sir Frederick Kenyon in his book Th
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95 contemporary history books. The
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97 The Number of New Testament Manu
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99 The following charts illustrate
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101 Testament which requires it to
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103 It is ironic that only 50 years
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105 While Barth may have overemphas
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107 How about the New Testament? Ho
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109 So-called "common copies" for p
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111 The New Testament First, the in
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Although not all the writings of th
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115 The Easter letter ("Festal Lett
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117 Gordon Fee and Douglas Stuart p
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119 Hasty generalizations is a temp
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121 Later revelatory spokesmen also
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123 6. THE PREEXISTENCE OF JESUS TH
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125 The Greek word for "begotten" o
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127 THE PREINCARNATE CHRIST'S RELAT
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129 Old Testament: God heard—Ange
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131 Christ and Michael are the same
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133 THE INCARNATION OF CHRIST Incar
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135 REPEATEDLY CALLED "MAN" One of
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The second line of the hymn states:
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The first line of the hymn states:
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141 We Westerners are extremely imp
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143 One of the reasons we do not co
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was 145 "The angel answered, 'The H
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147 8. THE HUMANITY OF JESUS CHRIST
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149 To the two discouraged disciple
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151 Jesus is repeatedly called and
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153 It is because of His complete d
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155 ● "The Jesus, still teaching
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157 Jurgen Moltmann in his book, Th
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159 "The firstborn one from the dea
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161 Like the Jehovah's Witnesses, t
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163 "But God gives it a body as he
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165 even Moses showed that the dead
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167 In His incarnation, Jesus came
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169 The writer proceeds by saying t
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171 Evidence for the Deity of Jesus
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173 ● Master (Mt 8:19) ● Mediat
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175 ● He is Omnipresent (everywhe
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177 granted the Son to have life in
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179 "God exalted . . . to His own r
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181 10. THE DEITY OF JESUS CHRIST P
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183 ● It is "by faith in the Son
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185 "They all asked, 'Are you then
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187 ● He is called "Immanuel" (Is
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189 ● He is called "Lord" (Lk 2:1
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191 Jehovah's Witnesses make the fu
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193 The grammatical construction he
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195 "So too John 1:1 uses O THEOS t
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197 ● ". . . how much more will t
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199 John could have said, "The Word
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201 Russell, Barbour, Wilson, Franz
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205 In the same spirit are those me
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207 What audacity! Who but God coul
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209 Christ, as the divine Wisdom, i
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211 Jesus is the radiance or reflec
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213 On the following page is listed
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215 "Your attitude should be the sa
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217 Divine Worship is Rendered and
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221 "If we let Him go on like this,
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223 Jesus was accused of being ment
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225 "This is My Son, whom I love; w
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227 ● To receive Him was to recei
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229 Jesus' teaching, whether it was
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No harsher words are found in Holy
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Here Jesus is called the personific
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235 It should be kept in mind that
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237 There are several texts which t
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239 Jesus also speaks to His discip
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241 By their actions these judges h
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245 In revealing His omniscience to
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247 The New World Translation of th
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Page 323 and 324: 323 21 Thinkexist.com “Quotes abo
Page 325 and 326: 325 Carnell, E. J. An Introduction
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Page 331 and 332: 331 Lapide, Pinchas and Ulrich Luz.
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