"Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it’s the only thing."
Liar, Lunatic or Lord
In his famous book Mere Christianity, C.S.Lewis makes the statement, “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 a man who says he is a poached egg – or he would be the devil of hell.
You must make your choice. Either this was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God.
But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us”.
LIAR???
If Jesus made his claims knowing that he was not God then he was lying and deliberately deceiving his followers.
Many will say that Jesus was a good moral teacher. How could he be a great moral teacher and knowingly mislead people at the most important point of his teaching – his own identity?
Someone who lived as Jesus lived, taught as Jesus taught, and died as Jesus died could not have been a liar.
LUNATIC???
Is it possible to be both sincere and wrong? Could it be that Jesus only “thought” himself to be God and was wrong. It would be pure lunacy for someone to think himself God, especially in a fiercely monotheistic culture. And then to tell others that their eternal destiny depended on believing in him.
In Jesus we don’t observe the abnormalities and imbalance that usually go along with being deranged. His poise and composure would certainly be amazing if he were insane. The skill and depth of his teachings support the case only for his total mental soundness.
LORD
Who you decide Jesus Christ is must not be an idle intellectual exercise. You cannot put him on the shelf as merely a great moral teacher. That is not a valid option. He is either a liar, a lunatic, or LORD and God. You must make a choice.
There is clear evidence in favour of Jesus Christ as LORD. Some people, however, reject this clear evidence because of the moral implication involved. Consider the facts and consider the implications of rejecting Jesus as LORD.
But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name. John 20:31
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