My Defense of Christianity.

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At the end of Matthew 20, Jesus makes several implicit claims to deity. He assumed, for example, that
His life would be a pattern for ours. Only God has the right to assume that all people made in His image
should conform to His image, so that was an implicit claim of deity. And when He goes through the
poetic parallelism, He calls Himself the Son of Man who came to give His life as a ransom, which is
saying He is greater than great and also that His life can be a ransom for many. These are all points at
which Jesus makes implicit claims of deity