" . . . 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."
The intentionality of everything that Jesus did, in accordance with and obediance to God's will, shines through the Gospels and for me, is one of the most important aspects of them. Jesus' life was not a series of accidents, not a tragedy. It was intended to happen exactly as it did, to reconcile sinners to God. If you put the entire story in the context of how we know the human heart works-- both from our own experience of ourselves, and from observing others down through history-- that alone proves the existence of God. No man could have devised such a thing-- no one before or since has ever done so. God is real, and he loves us.
Also, he has several of these debates in book form. The best published debate is "Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up?" in which he debates John Dominic Crossan, and, in my view, crushes him. The book will be persuasive to anyone who is not yet a committed liberal.
What do you think of post #8.
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