The Ultimate Question

Sooner or later, I think, everyone will have to answer the question Jesus asked of Peter: Who do you say that I am?

Here our religion does not matter so much as the question.  Every man, woman, and child will have to face Jesus himself and answer the question:  Who do you say that I am?

In Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis beautifully summed up our choices in his own question:  Lord, Liar, or Lunatic?  According to Lewis, the one option we do not have is to say that Jesus was/is a great moral teacher, but not who He claimed to be -- the Son of God.  According to Lewis, anyone who said the things Jesus said had to be speaking the truth -- or else He was lying, or He was a lunatic.  

The Jews who heard Him teach were horrified by His blasphemy, as they saw it:  [We are stoning you for blasphemy] because you, a mere man, claim to be God (John 10).

For this reason, the Jews tried all the harder to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God (John 5).

I think anyone who reads the Gospel of John -- or any one of the Gospels, for that matter --- with this question in mind will begin to see Jesus as the Son of God, made flesh for our sake.

And then the next question will follow:  Why do you call me "Lord" and not do the things that I say?

Indeed, a question all of us will have to answer someday!