UNIQUENESS

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Unlike any other revelation of God, Jesus Christ is the clearest picture of God. Look throughout the major world religions and you'll find that Buddha, Muhammad, Confucius and Moses, all identified themselves as teachers or prophets. None of them ever claimed to be equal to God. Jesus did and that sets Him apart. Though He spoke about His Father in Heaven, it was not from the position of separation, but of very close and unique union… a relationship sometimes hard for us to comprehend. Jesus said that anyone who had seen Him had seen the Father, anyone who believed in Him, believed in the Father.

 

He said, "I am the light of the world, he who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." He claimed attributes belonging only to God: to forgive people of their sin, to offer a more abundant life and to provide eternal life in Heaven. Unlike other teachers who focused people on their words and deeds, Jesus pointed to Himself. He did not say, ‘do as I do and you will find truth.’ He said believe in Me; as: “I am the way, the truth, and the life, no one comes to the Father but through me.”

 

Also, no other leader of any other religion ever authenticated his message by rising from the dead. Unlike all other religious figure-heads, you won’t find the body of Christ lying in state under a monument… or in a tomb… or buried at a shrine… or anywhere. You will not find Him because He’s not dead. He is risen.

 

C. S. Lewis (1898-1963); fellow and tutor at Oxford University and later the chair of Medieval and Renaissance English Literature at Cambridge University was a respected scholar of Christian Apologetics. His writings and radio talks became so popular that he was called an “apostle to the skeptics” by Time magazine in September of 1947. He eloquently states:

 

“A man who was merely a man and said the sort of thing Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic 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 patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”

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Again… if God does exist, and He did create the universe, the plants and animals that sustain us, and each of us with our individual identity and will, then how would an infinitely powerful and knowing Creator convey His message without forsaking our free will to choose what we will believe? Without 'neon in the sky' proclaiming His message, might He instead provide a supernatural channel for us to receive His message to interpret on our own? Might He become one of us as the only logical method to bridge the immense gap of our existences to convey this message?

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He might.

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"Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own, but the Father, as He remains in Me, does His works." ~John 14:10