Who is Jesus?
Throughout history many people have attempted to answer this question. Some have done so accurately, but many have not. Our best source for answering this question is – once again – God’s own Word. The Bible presents us with some inescapable truths about Jesus that demand a response. Anyone who seriously studies Scripture to learn more about Jesus must answer two probing questions: (1) What do you think of Jesus? And (2) Who is he? The writer C.S. Lewis made this observation: “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.” (Mere Christianity, rev. ed. [New York: Macmillan, 1952], 41)
Jesus was not just a good man. He was, and is, the God-man. Let’s examine what the Bible has to say about Jesus.