re: Jesus debate thread. Updated: 30 vs. 3. Existence CONFIRMED!

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Jesus of Nazareth was definitely a historic figure. And as C.S. Lewis stated: LINK

“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: 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 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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OR his claims of divinity were added after the fact by the writers of the Gospels

Once again, every single argument defending Christianity begins with the assumption that the information in the Bible is accurate. Without this presupposition, every argument falls apart.

If I assume the Quran is true then I can make just as reasonable a case that Muhammad was divinely inspired.