My grandson comes in contact with people who are Islamists from time to time, and when the subject of religion comes up--as it often does, he asks them what they think about Jesus. (A conversation opener.)

"We believe that he was great prophet.  He was from the linage of Abraham.  We hold him up as a very great prophet."

And then my grandson says something like this:  "Well, Christians believe he was God, and I am a Christian.  And you have a huge dilemma.  There are only two possibilities.  Either he was who he said he was--God--or he was lying. And if he was lying, then you believe in a dishonest prophet.  Which do you think it is?  Was he God?  Or was he lying?"

Since most Islamists have not read the Koran they are stumped.  Christians have the same problem because most of them haven't read the Bible.

How can you possibly know what you believe if you never read the Bible?  This book traces history in a way that no other writing ever has.  It stretches over thousands of years and has a multitude of prophecies (I read somewhere that it was 72) that were fulfilled concerning the Messiah--in the person of Jesus.  If you run a statistical analysis--and you know I love math--the probability of it being Jesus according to prophecy is off the chart.  There haven't been enough people in the history of the universe to cover the improbabilities.

He was God.  In human form.  Come to earth so he could die for us.  Why would he do such a thing? He says it is because he loves us.  Because we are totally unable to become what he wants us to become without his forgiveness.  He has chosen to forgive us.  You.  And me.