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"And He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed."
1 Peter 2:24
Christ said things about Himself that no other has ever dared say. He made amazing claims to His authority, and did it in a natural, matter-of-fact way. His contemporaries were baffled by this. "He was teaching them as one having authority, and not as their scribes." (Matt. 7:29)
Christ spoke not as a scholar who was pursuing truth but as one who already knew the truth. He spoke as one who was present and active in creation.
Jesus told His followers, "Whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it" (John 14:13,14). The most powerful men on the face of the earth would never be so foolish as to make the promises Christ made.
What Christ did was just as unique and without precedence as what He said. To the blind He gave sight. He unstopped deaf ears and cast out devils, and He restored the dead to life.
Jesus said, "I proceeded forth and have come from God" (John 8:42). He again said, "I and the Father are one" (10:30). There was no question in the minds of those who listened as to what He meant. Scriptures say the people sought all the more to kill Him because He called God His Father, making Himself equal with God. Buddha, Muhammed and Confucius were great religious leaders but none of them made such claims.
C.S. Lewis wrote, "Either He was a raving lunatic of an unusually abominable type or else He was and is precisely what He said. There is no middle way. You can shut Him up for a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God, but do not let us come up with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that option open to us."
Was Christ God in the flesh or a deceiver and imposter? Eventually, you must answer that question for yourself.
Source : Today can be Different by Dr. Harold J. Sala.