Who has not heard of Napoleon? The bold French general was out to conquer his world. When he met his Waterloo and was exiled to St. Helena island, the former warrior, Napoleon Bonaparte, gave the world his opinion of Jesus. Listen to his words.

“I know men; and I tell you that Jesus Christ is not a man. Superficial minds see a resemblance between Christ and the founders of empires, and the gods of other religions. That resemblance does not exist. There is between Christianity and whatever other religions the distance of infinity. We can say to the authors of every other religion, ‘You are neither gods nor the agents of the Deity. You are but missionaries of falsehood, molded from the same clay, with all the passions and vices inseparable from them. Your temples and your priests proclaim your origin.’”¹

But Jesus Christ blew Napoleon’s mind. Listen again to him.

“Everything in Christ astonishes me. His spirit overawes me, and His will confounds me. Between Him and whoever else in the world, there is no possible term of comparison. He is truly a being by Himself. His ideas and sentiments, the truth which He announces, His manner of convincing are not explained either by human organization or by the nature of things…His religion is a revelation from an intelligence which certainly is not that of man…One can absolutely find nowhere, but in Him alone, the imitation or the example of His life…I search in vain in history to find the similar to Jesus Christ, or anything which can approach the gospel. Neither history, nor humanity, nor the ages, nor nature, offer me anything with which I am able to compare it or to explain it. Here everything is extra ordinary.”²

Stay with me for another incredible testimony about Jesus. The great historian Arnold Toynbee, in his “Study of History,” spent 80 pages covering so-called “saviors of society” who tried to impact their generation through works or claims of wisdom or divinity. Finally, Toynbee comes to Jesus Christ and finds there is no comparison.

“When we first set out on the quest, we found ourselves moving in the midst of a mighty marching host; but as we have pressed forward on our way the marchers, company by company, have been falling out of the race. The first to fall were the swordsmen, the next the archaists, the next the futurists, the next the philosophers, until at length there were no more human competitors left in the running.

In the last stage of all, our motley host of would-be saviors, human and divine, has dwindled to a single company of none but gods; and now the strain has been testing the staying-power of these last remaining runners, notwithstanding their superhuman strength. At the final ordeal of death, few, even of these would-be saviour-gods, have dared to put their title to the test by plunging into the icy river. And now as we stand and gaze with our eyes fixed upon the farther shore, a single figure rises from the flood, and straightway fills the whole horizon. There is the Saviour; ‘and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand; he shall see of the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied.’”^3,4

What is so special about Jesus? We have only gotten started!

¹ Why I Believe, D. James Kennedy P. 124

² The New Evidence That Demands A Verdict, Josh D. McDowell Pgs. 161, 163

³ The New Evidence That Demands A Verdict, Josh D. McDowell Pgs. 161, 163

⁴ Isaiah 53:11

(Frank Eiklor recommends the above two great books to all who want a firm foundation for faith in Christ—a faith that is anchored on indisputable facts.)

"Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ" (I Corinthians 11:1)
The ST. PAUL SCHOOL, with Frank Eiklor, Eileen Young and Cecilia Contreras