Jesus: Lord, Liar, or Lunatic?

Jesus claimed to be God. Was he lying? Was he a lunatic? Or was he proclaiming the truth? #TrueEvidence

[debunkingthefundamentalist]

This defense is very poor of Jesus divinity. 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

[HavenU]

Actually, not CS Lewis...In the mid-nineteenth century the Scottish Christian preacher “Rabbi” John Duncan (1796-1870) formulated what he called a “trilemma.” In Colloquia Peripatetica (p. 109) we see Duncan’s argument from 1859-1860, with my numbering added: Christ either [1] deceived mankind by conscious fraud, or [2] He was Himself deluded and self-deceived, or [3] He was Divine. There is no getting out of this trilemma. It is inexorable.

[denissutherland]

Hebrews 5 : 7 " During the days of Jesus's life on earth he offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the One who could save him from death ( spiritual) and he was heard because of his reverent submission."

[TheTrinityDelusion]

Jesus never claimed to be God. For Jesus, God was someone else, his Father.

[denissutherland]

Romans 1 : 3 regarding His Son, who as to his human nature, who as to his human nature, was a descendant of

[flatoutt]

did jesus claim to be god . depends which gospel you read because we have him saying categorically in mark 10.28 ""Why do you call me good?" Jesus answered. "No one is good--except God alone..it's clear to me he's not equating himself with god here . to reconcile these opposite viewpoints by jesus . have you considered it's not jesus speaking . it's the writer of the gospel that has
his jesus speaking . we have good evidence for this viewpoint because, the end of mark is known for not being in the original gospels, therefore somebody else added to it, and had [his jesus ]say certain things, also we have the story of the adulterous woman
which didn't show up till the Codex Bezae. according to bart erhman [about 500 yrs later]
so it's not like c s lewis wrote about . it's Jesus: Lord, Liar, or Lunatic? OR LEGEND