“Evidently enough, then, if He was what He claimed to be He was the Son of God. Now if He was not the Son of God, He claimed to be, all the same; and how are you going to get along with those claims and explain them? It is evident at a glance that if His claims were false they can be explained only on the ground of His lunacy or His knavery. No other alternative remains. He was continually asserting that He was divine. If He was not divine, He deceived others purposely, and was a consummate liar, or He unintentionally deceived Himself, and was a helpless lunatic. So that there are only three things that you and I can think of the man of the gospels, either that He was a maniac, or a villain, or the Son of God.” — Charles H. Parkhurst, “What Is It To Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ?” in The Blind Man’s Creed and Other Sermons (1883), p. 50