Sir – Bruce Cane (Letters, October 8) has a valid point in saying you can’t accept that a person is the Son of God just because he says he is. There needs to be evidence to confirm the claim.
C.S. Lewis famously said that Jesus’ claims meant that he must have been a liar, a lunatic, or genuinely the Son of God.
On the basis of Jesus’ teaching and ministry, plus extrabiblical evidence, he ruled out the first two options and came firmly to the conclusion that Jesus was exactly who and what he (and others) said he was. However, the best evidence for the truth of Jesus’ claim today is that of the radically changed lives of gangsters, thieves, rapists etc who have come under the influence of the Holy Spirit, and numerous millions of ordinary people worldwide who have found peace, joy, fulfilment and purpose on developing a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.
Dr Helen Robertson, Headington
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