Was JESUS a Lunatic, Liar, Legend or Lord?

Paul Copan unpacks one of C.S. Lewis' famous apologetics in this fantastic clip. Believing the Truth about Jesus is the single most important thing about a person. Enjoy!

[jaihummel]

Hey great work, I love the content and message.
Keep it up man.

[stefanyramirez]

Praise God! Thank you for your work. 🙏🏽

[edgarmorales]

The truth regarding the human state of Jesus was, by common consent of the disciples, suppressed to give greater credence to the supposed "Divinity" and ministry of Jesus.

According to the gospels, it was said of Jesus that he was the "only Son of God." Why then, did Jesus frequently refer to himself as the "Son of Man?" Jesus specifically made these statements to counteract the beliefs in his "Divinity" and to impress on the minds of people that he was of the same physical origins as ourselves. Jesus intended them to understand that what he could do, they could also do if they only had his knowledge and followed his instructions for right thinking and right action.

So many myths have arisen around the earthly person of Jesus and the SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS of Jesus that it is time to be rid of them as completely as possible, since they are preventing people from evolving spiritually.

Those, who have been indoctrinated with religious teachings, must try to understand that when describing the life of Jesus, the disciples related only what they personally remembered which fully supported their account of the "supernatural" activities of Jesus. The disciples also included much that had been spoken of Jesus by others, during the 30 odd years following the death of Jesus.

After such a lapse of time and inevitable embroidery of truth - how could the disciples possibly write an authoritative "biography" of Jesus and of what really happened... or properly explain the true spiritual perceptions of Jesus which gave birth to the words and "miracles" of Jesus?

Only one person can write from this standpoint - and that is Jesus himself. Therefore, the Christ Letters and A Course In Miracles will bring you the TRUTH in a way that no spectator could possibly tell it, no matter how well they thought they understood the thinking of Jesus.

If the TRUTH expressed in the Christ Letters and A Course In Miracles differs from much written in the New Testament, is it to be wondered at or rejected?

For that reason, Jesus has returned - through the medium of the Christ Letters and A Course In Miracles, or through those who can communicate with the dead - to describe his life and his teachings over 2000 years ago.

[RustyWalker]

Option 4: legend. The character in the Bible didn't exist, although a historical precedent may have.

[kareenv]

Professor Copan! So cool :) yay PBA alumni 🙌🏽

[debunkingthefundamentalist]

It is a poor defense and always was. And it is highly debated what he actually said about himself. Versus what the early church founders wrote. 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