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But what did Jesus say? Who did Jesus claim to be? In one of the most quoted verses in the Bible, John 14:6, Jesus communicates to replica purses his burdened followers, "I am the way, the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father except through me." Similarly, in John 10:9, Jesus expresses, "I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture." While dealing with a woman who had just lost her brother in John 11:25, Jesus reveals, "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die." Jesus claims to be "the way" to live this life, "the gateway" to eternal life and invites all to put their trust in him. According to Jesus he is the answer to the "ultimate questions" in life.

And Jesus said even more difficult things. In John 8:58, Jesus said to a group of religious leaders, "Before Abraham was born, I AM." This claim of preexistence was not well received. On another occasion, Jesus plainly expressed his deity, "I and the Father are one." In Matthew 16:15-16, when Peter states that Jesus is "the Christ, the Son of the living God," Jesus not only accepts the titles but also calls Peter blessed and declares the profession as a divine revelation. Jesus, the man from Nazareth, claimed to be God!

So what is true? Was Jesus just a good man, an interesting teacher and an insightful leader? Or is he "the way"? Is he God? In the book "Mere Christianity," C.S. Lewis provides a great summary to the dilemma about Jesus -- "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 Replica Watches 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 inten