Ch. 13 Was Jesus Christ A Liar?

Lunatic, Liar, or Lord? Jesus clearly claimed to be God in human flesh. His claim is either true or false. If you reject His claim, then you cannot say He was a good teacher because if the claim is false then no good teacher would make such a false claim. There are only three possible responses to His claim:

1. If His claim is false but He believes the claim is true then He is a lunatic.
2. If His claim is false and He knows it is false then He is a liar.
3. If His claim is true then He is the Lord God in human flesh and He must be worshiped.

C. S. Lewis wrote:
“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 a level with the man who says he is a poached egg, or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool; you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; 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. He did not intend to.”

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