The question then is simply this, Was Jesus really the Divine Person he claimed to be, or was he a blasphemous impostor?
When the apostles unitedly and solemnly testified that they had seen him after he was risen from the dead, that they ate and drank with him, that their hands had handled his body, that they conversed with him for forty days, and that they saw him go up to heaven, did they tell the truth or were they a confederated band of liars?
There is no reason for any other supposition.

They could not possibly be deceived themselves in the matters they relate.

They knew perfectly whether they were true or not.
We are not talking about matters of dogma, about which there might be room for difference of opinion, but about matters of fact--about what men say they saw, and heard, and felt--about which no man of common sense could possibly be mistaken.

"That which we have seen with our eyes, which we have heard, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled of the Word of life * * * that which we have seen and heard declare we unto you." Such is their language.

We must either take it as truth, or reject it as falsehood.