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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHas\u00a0anyone ever dared to proclaim his absolute sinlessness?\u00a0 Has\u00a0anyone ever dared to utter the words: \u201cI am the truth\u201d? (John, 14: 6)\u00a0 No-one, and nowhere!\u00a0 Only a God can do that. Can you imagine your Marx uttering things like that?\u00a0 They would take him for a lunatic and nobody would be willing to follow him! Now, just consider, how many people sacrificed everything for Christ\u2019s sake, even their very life, having believed in the veracity of His words regarding Himself!\u00a0 If His proclamations about Himself were false, Jesus would have been the most despicable character in history, for having led so many people to such a huge sacrifice!\u00a0 What ordinary man \u2013 no matter how great, how important, how wise he may be \u2013 would deserve such a tremendous offer and sacrifice?\u00a0 Well?\u00a0 No-one!\u00a0 Not unless he were God! In other words: Any ordinary man that would demand such a sacrifice from his followers would have been the most\u00a0loathsome person in history.\u00a0 Christ, however, both demanded it, and achieved it.\u00a0Yet, despite this \u2018achievement\u2019, He was proclaimed by the very deniers of His divinity as the noblest and holiest figure in history.\u00a0 So,\u00a0either the deniers are being illogical when they proclaim this most loathsome figure as \u201choliest\u201d,\u00a0or, in order to avoid any illogicality, and to rationalize the co-existence of Christ\u2019s demands and His holiness, they must concede to accepting that Christ continues to remain the noblest and holiest figure in mankind, but,\u00a0only under the condition that He is\u00a0also God!\u00a0 Otherwise, as we said, He would be, not the holiest, but the most loathsome figure in history, being the cause of the greatest sacrifice of all ages, and in the name of a lie!\u00a0 Thus, Christ\u2019s divinity is proved by His very deniers, on the basis of those very characterizations of His person!\u201d<\/p>\n
– Dialogue with an Atheist<\/p>\n
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\u201cHas\u00a0anyone ever dared to proclaim his absolute sinlessness?\u00a0 Has\u00a0anyone ever dared to utter the words: \u201cI am the truth\u201d? (John, 14: 6)\u00a0 No-one, and nowhere!\u00a0 Only a God can do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-orthodox-elders","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6264,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6263\/revisions\/6264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}