Son Of Man Craig Quotes

Favorite Quote:“'Son of Man' is often thought to indicate the humanity of Jesus, just as the reflex expression 'Son of God' indicates his divinity. In fact, just the opposite is true. The Son of Man was a divine figure in the Old Testament book of Daniel who would come at the end of the world mankind and rule forever. Thus, the claim to be the Son of Man would be in effect a claim to divinity”(37). In the first chapter Lee Strobel starts off by interviewing Craig L. Blomberg who is considered the foremost authority on the four gospels which serve as the autobiographies of Jesus' life. The purpose of the interview with Mr. Blomberg was to establish that gospels were in fact written by those individuals who authorship was given to. Mr. Strobel presents such ideas or …show more content…
Mr. Blomberg says that “Q” is a hypothesis that it would have been a collection of sayings from Jesus. He makes the comparison of “Q” to that of a “best of” album for a famous musician. Mr. Blomberg concluded that from “Q” one could concluded that Jesus made some audacious claims. For example, “that he was wisdom personified and that he was the one whom God will judge all humanity, whether they confess him or disavow him”(32). During the interview with Mr. Blomberg they also discussed the claims that Jesus made about being God, the style and manner in which each gospel was written, the accuracy of which events were recorded, and how soon were events recorded compared to when they happened. In chapter 2 the interview with Mr. Blomberg continues after a short break, during this portion Mr. Strobel puts the gospels through a series of test to name a few the ability test, the character test and the consistency test. I fond the most compelling argument came from the consistency test. In this