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Then who do you say I am?

Matthew 16:15 · The same question, asked again

The five rings I came through
  1. 1ExistenceJesus was a real man who lived in first-century Judea.
  2. 2CrossJesus was crucified under Pontius Pilate.
  3. 3Early witnessThe proclamation of the resurrection began within a few years of the execution.
  4. 4RisenJesus’ resurrection best explains the facts that remain to be explained.
  5. 5His claimJesus claimed for himself an authority that belongs to God alone.
  6. ∴ConclusionThen there is ground to hear his words, and the words of the witnesses he appointed, as the word of God, among them “No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6).
A ring is still openAt each ring, choose whether to accept it or to hold off for now.
Look at ring 1 again
Matthew 16:15–16 · Confession

Then who do you say I am?

Scripture · as God’s word
An early photograph of the long, snow-streaked ridge of Mount Hermon beyond a foreground of jagged rocks.
Francis Frith, Mount Hermon, the Mount of Transfiguration, c. 1857 (Metropolitan Museum of Art) · Source
If you accept every ringThen there is ground to hear his words, and the words of the witnesses he appointed, as the word of God, among them “No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6).

If Jesus lived, died on the cross and was proclaimed risen by witnesses from soon afterwards, if the resurrection best explains those facts, and if he claimed for himself the authority that belongs to God alone, then the answer that makes him ‘one of the prophets’ no longer stands.

You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.

Matthew 16:16 · Peter’s confession
Your first answerNot answered
Your answer nowChoose from the answers under the question

You can switch each ring between Accept and Hold, and see which ring, once held, keeps the way from reaching the confession.

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