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Shall I examine the claims to Deity of Jesus of Nazareth? . When morning broke the answer was clearly formulated:
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Truth is greater than peace or position. If Jesus be God, challenge will not shake his Deity; if he be Man, it is blasphemy to worship him. I re-read Liddon's
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Bampton Lectures on this controversy and Renan's
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Vie de Jesus . I studied the Gospels, and tried to represent to myself the life there outlined; I tested the conduct there given as I should have tested the conduct of any ordinary historical character; I noted that in the Synoptics no claim to Deity was made by Jesus himself, nor suggested by his disciples; I weighed his own answer to an enquirer, with its plain disavowal of Godhood:
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Why callest thou me good? There is none good save one, that is God (Matt, xix., 17); I conned over his prayers to
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, his rest on divine protection, his trust in a power greater than his own; I noted his repudiation of divine knowledge:
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Of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, _neither the Son_, but the Father (Mark xiii., 32); I studied the meaning of his prayer of anguished submission:
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O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me! nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt (Matt, xxvi., 39); I dwelt on his bitter cry in his dying agony:
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My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? (Matt, xxvii., 46); I asked the meaning of the final words of rest:
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Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit