So Mickey sez: “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 a 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..."
Are you kidding? Either hes god or hes a madman.
Sorry charlie, er.. Mickey... The Buddha came up with all the necessary info 500 years before jesus showed up. The Buddha spoke of the Right Path, of inner reflection, of Englightenment... all the key points that jesus plagiarized. If the Buddha was not prophetic, how could jesus?
Your (il)logic is testimony of the inability of fundiegelicals to truly reason.
I do accept jesus as a great moral teacher. PERIOD Personally, I doubt he was the son o god- look at the difference in personality- the xtian god was sadistic, a true sociopath, whereas jesus spoke of 'turning the other cheek'. That rock fell very far away from the tree.
sadly, too many so-called xtians focus on the after-thought: personal, self-preservationist afterlife, rather than jesus' real message- social justice. But, face it, how many xtian worship houses would be filled with sinners seeking personal 'salvation' from the fearful hell-fire, if all they heard from the preacher was- do as jesus taught- give to OTHERS, love your brothers, and do not seek the kingdom of god here on earth? (S Sarah and Rickey Warren hate that part, eh?)
As for your either/or? Man-god or Satan? Now you're suggesting that Satan is preaching social justice?
then...
Praise Lord Satan!