By: Hendrik Wieland

Did you heard about His Legacy?
So if Jesus was above lying for personal benefit, perhaps his radical claims were falsified in order to leave a legacy (something from the past).
But the prospect of being beaten to a pulp and nailed to a cross would quickly dampen the enthusiasm of most would-be superstars.
Here is another haunting fact.
If Jesus were to have simply dropped the claim of being God’s Son, he never would have been condemned.
It was his claim to be God and his unwillingness to recant (reject belief) of it that got him crucified.
If enhancing his credibility and historical reputation was what motivated Jesus to lie, one must explain how a carpenter from a poor Judean village could ever anticipate the events that would catapult his name to worldwide prominence.
How would he know his message would survive?
Jesus’ disciples had fled and Peter had denied him.
Not exactly the formula for launching a religious legacy.
Do historians believe Jesus lied?
Scholars have scrutinized Jesus’ words and life to see if there is any evidence of a defect in his moral character.
In fact, even the most ardent skeptics are stunned by Jesus’ moral and ethical purity.
One of those was skeptic and antagonist John Stuart Mill (1806–73), the philosopher.
Mill wrote of Jesus, "About the life and sayings of Jesus there is a stamp of personal originality combined with profundity of insight in the very first rank of men of sublime genius of whom our species can boast.
When this pre-eminent genius is combined with the qualities of probably the greatest moral reformer and martyr to that mission who ever existed on earth, religion cannot be said to have made a bad choice in pitching upon this man as the ideal representative and guide for humanity."