HE WAS NOT A GOOD MAN.
This is his own argument:
A young man came to him and said, “Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may inherit eternal life? and he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is God.”
The argument is simple enough.
“You call me good. God alone is good. If I am not God, I am not good.”
Not good!
Nay! If he were not God, he was the most wantonly wicked man of whom I ever heard.
If he were not God, not only does disaster fall upon himself in the total destruction of his character, and in the consequent and final driving of him from the suffrage and consideration of men, but the disaster falls upon all who have put their faith in him.
If Jesus Christ were not God, then he never forgave the sins of a single soul, and all those throughout the two thousand years who have gone into eternity trusting in his name have gone into that eternity unforgiven and unshrived of God.
If Jesus Christ were not God, then he has not forgiven the sin of a single human being alive to-day.