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The claim that Jesus was fictional is nonsensical. There are several witnesses to his existence. These hostile witnesses to Christ are also rather consistent with the favorable witness in the Gospel accounts and epistles. It's difficult to find this much attestation on any other historical figure that the secular world takes for granted. That leaves one to answer what was He? A madman? A devil? Or the Some of God?
"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 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 intend to.”
-C.S. Lewis
Legend is also off the table, as nearly all the apostles were martyred. One may die for a lie they were deceived into believing, but nobody dies for a lie they know is a lie, especially one that brings no personal benefit.
Christ's challenge to everyone: "Who do you say that I am?"
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