Jesus: Liar, Lunatic, or Lord

C. S. Lewis famously stated:

"That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell."

[kvelez]

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The Shocking Alternative, that's interesting.
Amen.

[joshbaker]

Thank you Pastor. I love these, they are all wonderful videos.

[CloudslnMyCoffee]

I have always loved the logic and truth of that quote. I have heard there were issues with tMere Christianity. I am glad that we can still find it useful to us

[MrDavidharman]

Thanks, I've always been a fan of Lewis.

[lostfan]

I agree that the character presented in the New Testament is liar, lunatic or lord. However, i don't believe that we have good reason to conclude this character accurately reflects the historical Jesus, so i propose a third "L":

Legend

[debunkingthefundamentalist]

Lewis actually wrong. We can absolutely say he was just a great teacher. There is zero writing about him during his life--it was all later. As I said to my own people in a recent vid, one of the arguments to the Jesus divinity concept was that he couldn't have been a liar or a lunatic. Well, yes he could have and very easily. How many today claim supernatural occurrences? The entire Burpo family comes to mind with a now twenties man who still believes he went to heaven at four years old even though he never actually died. And how many follow this ministry? How many followed Joseph Smith's claim of being visited by the angel Moroni? He even had eleven signed signatures of witness of later seeing tablets, hearing supernatural voices and such. So no, Jesus and his disciples claming this and that don't mean much--and the fact we actually have no signed signatures of anything or any authorship of anyone else during Jesus life only makes the case look more and more like an urban legend. Cheers, DCF