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Remember, there is a Law that exists called the Law of Noncontradiction which
states that contradictory propositions cannot both be true at the same time and in
the same sense. This sounds intolerant rather intolerant, but so are most of the
laws of nature. The Laws of Thermodynamics are very narrow and any statement
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that contradicts these laws is false, because of the Law of Noncontradiction!

Many people have tried to circumvent the person of Jesus by diminishing Him in
some way, posing questions that express doubt about who He was or deny His
relevance. You find an incredible number of things that people claim about Jesus,
but most of them are a variation of but a few fundamental lies that Satan tries to sow among
humankind. Here are some of the statements that people make about Jesus:

1. Jesus never existed
- He is just a fictional person
- Even if Jesus existed, we don't know anything about Him.
2. Jesus is not God
- Jesus was just a great teacher and preacher; He was a good person, but not God.
- Jesus never claimed to be God (we will discover that this is not true).
- Jesus was an idealist who believed to be God.
- Jesus misled people by deliberately fulfilling the key prophecies about the Messiah.
3. Jesus was never resurrected
- He never died in the first place
- He died but was someone stole His body.
4. Salvation through Jesus is a lie
- There is no resurrection of the dead, no eternal life (life ends with death) .
- Everyone is going to heaven, I don't have to believe in Jesus for salvation.
- A loving God will not condemn me just because I don't believe in Jesus.
-There is no hell, so I really don’t have to worry about who Jesus is.
- I don't need salvation because my good deeds far outweigh the bad.
- I am a good person. God will probably let me enter Heaven.

Christians believe that the Bible is the infallible Word of God and thus is the final authority for all
matters of doctrines and beliefs. The entire Bible is about redemption. When sin entered the world
through Adam, mankind needed redemption and forgiveness. So the Bible traces the story of
redemption through the Old Testament with the promise of a coming Messiah who would suffer and die
for the sins of mankind. Read Isaiah 53 which clearly foretells that the Messiah would offer Himself up
as a substitutionary lamb, shedding His blood for our sin. Then the New Testament starts with the
Gospels, historically tracing Jesus’s life and death. The rest of Scripture explains how Jesus impacts our
lives and will come again to reign as King of kings.

In addition to that there are extra-biblical sources that confirm the Biblical account of Jesus. We don't
need these sources, since we know already that the Bible is true, but it helps people who doubt to look
at these as well - even if you already established the reliability of the Bible.
Jesus: Man and God?

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