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Reasons For Faith In Christ

Eric Parker
11/27/16 - Sun AM

Jesus is the Christ, the object of the Christian faith. His identity and the Christian's faith is not shrouded in uncertainty but rather is fortified by a host of undeniable evidence that makes faith in Him unequivocally rational. 

A quote from the lesson further demonstrates the reality of Jesus' true identity as opposed to faulty conceptions:

“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about [Jesus]: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronising nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. ... Now it seems to me obvious that He was neither a lunatic nor a fiend: and consequently, however strange or terrifying or unlikely it may seem, I have to accept the view that He was and is God.” (C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, pp. 54-56)