Who is the greatest man in the history of the world?

Question

12 year old wonder.
Great scholar

Answer 1

Jesus

Answer 2

Jesus!

Calendar year date started in commemoration of HIM!

Most followed, even if he were just a man!

Most controversial person in history.

Most used name in CURSING, indicated that HE is NEVER FORGOTTEN, even by those that are Christaphobic!

And more!
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ONE LIFE

He was born in a stable,
In an obscure village,
the child of a peasant woman,
From there He traveled
less than 200 miles.

He never wrote a book.
He never held an office.
He did none of the things one
usually associates with greatness.

He became a nomadic preacher,
Popular opinion turned against Him,
He was betrayed by a close friend,
And His other friends ran away.

He was unjustly condemned to death,
Crucified on a cross among common thieves,
On a hill overlooking the town dump,
And when dead, laid in a borrowed grave.

Nineteen centuries have come and gone,
Empires have risen and fallen,
Mighty armies have marched,
And powerful rulers have reigned.

Yet no one has affected men as much as HE,
HE is the central figure of the human race,
HE is the Messiah, THE SON OF GOD,
JESUS THE CHRIST!
HE IS THE GOD!

Answer 3

I ask this question to people alot too. But religious figures don't count for two reasons. First, its hard to prove they really existed in the first place, and second, it was their job to influence people. they really didn't do anything else.

I have it narrowed down to two people. I think the greatest man in history would be Julius Cesar, or Ramses the Great.

Julius Cesar because he founded the single greatest empire in history. The Roman Empire was so huge that when it finally collapsed, it started the dark ages in Europe. The level of technology during the Roman Period is only rivaled by modern day achievements.

Ramses the Great (He was the Egyption Pharaoh from the Moses/Exodus story) because it took a power as strong as God Himself to bring him down. If you are God's number one priority, then you must be pretty important.

Answer 4

Aristotle -- it is IMPOSSIBLE to underestimate the influence of Aristotle on western civilization. Modern logic and the scientific method are the result of his lectures. Alexander the Great was one of his students.

Without Aristotle there would have been no Isaac Newton (a very good nominee from another poster here).

I beg you not to pick Jesus -- he changed management and organization and the expression of compassion, but inspite of these enormous accomplishments, his lessons were so brief and so cryptic that they are open to antagonistic interpretations. Feuding Christians have created more bloodshed than any other reason for oppression and war in history. The emotional Christians, whose worship of Jesus is hysterical (and that includes all of those who voted for Jesus in response to your question) are the WORST, the most likely to advocate holy war.

There's just too goddamned much blood on his hands to call him the great man of history. Politically and militarily, Jesus has been the harbinger of barbarism and genocide: Hitler was a Christian. Stalin was a divinity student.

Wait for the coming G7 versus belt-of-Islamic countries war and you'll fully see what I mean by this.

Greatest man of the twentieth century? Winston Churchill. Greatest man alive today --Nelson Mandela.

Answer 5

George Washington

Answer 6

Rachel,
Yeshua Ben Yosef. You know Him as Jesus. He came to this world, to give us a message, which has been lost in the junkpile of man made religions. "The Kingdom of God, is within you". If we come to God as humble children, and invite Him into our hearts, He sends His Spirit into us, and bonds with us. We become new creatures, part mortal, part Immortal. Materialism and fear fall away from us. Love and Wisdom become the foundation of all our choices. If this message had not been buried by the greed of men, who knows what our world would be like today? His name has been slandered by the acts of men, but He is still the greatest man who has ever walked the earth, or ever will.

Answer 7

That's a loaded question! There is no right or wrong answer to that one, there is only your opinion after you have study history and drawn your own conclusion. Also, define "greatest". If I had to choose a single inspirational man in history I would have to say Mother Teresa. She was a pretty good egg, don't you think?

Answer 8

The Greatest man is yet to be born. The other Greatest man is not recorded in history.

Answer 9

Martin Luther King

Answer 10

The greatest man in the history of the world is my dad. If you met him you would like him and understand why.

Answer 11

I'm going to have to go with Isaac Newton.

It pains me not to choose Carl Gauss, but Newton wins because he first convinced people they could get a better understanding of the world by studying it objectively and looking for underlying principles. This contrasted starkly with the former prevailing mysticism. Newton is probably my favorite hero of the Enlightenment.