Who is Jesus?
Jesus is either Lord, Liar, or Lunatic
Some acknowledge Jesus as a historical figure and say he was a great man
or a prophet, but
not God in the flesh. This is not possible.
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 up with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human
teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.
I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish
thing that people often say about Him: 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great
moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God'. That is the one thing we
must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of thing 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.
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity.
C.S. Lewis, was a professor at Cambridge University
Is Jesus Christ God?
Jesus claimed to be God. He did not leave any other options. His claim to be
must be either true or false. If Jesus claims are true, you must either accept
or reject His lordship. We have provided on this website evidence that the Bible
is true. If the Bible is true, then Jesus claims are true. After reading the
information on this website, you have a choice what you do with the evidence.
You can decide to reject it, or you can accept it and receive Jesus Christ as
your Lord and Savior.
How To Accept Christ
Not convinced Jesus is God? Let's
look at the other options.
Was Jesus a
Liar?
If, when Jesus made His claims He knew that He was not God, then He was lying.
This means He was also a hypocrite because He told others to be honest. He had
to also be demonic because He told others to trust Him for their eternal
destiny. He would also have to be a fool because it was His claims to being God
that led to His crucifixion.
With the above information, how can people
say that Jesus was a great moral man, a great teacher, a prophet, an example for
all to follow? Yet, listen to what J.S. Mill, a philosopher, skeptic, and
antagonist of Christianity has to say about Jesus:
About the life and sayings of Jesus
there is a stamp of personal originality combined with profundity of insight in
the very first rank of men of sublime genius of whom our species can boast. When
this pre-eminent genius is combined with the qualities of probably the greatest
moral reformer and martyr to that mission who ever existed on earth, religion
cannot be said to have made a bad choice in pitching upon this man as the ideal
representative and guide of humanity...
Quote from Vernon C. Grounds. The Reason for Our Hope.
So what is true? Is Jesus a liar or Lord?
Or maybe He was a lunatic.
Was Jesus a
Lunatic?
Maybe Jesus though He was God, but mistaken. He could just be sincerely wrong.
For someone to think He is God and to tell others to trust in Him for eternal
life cannot be some kind of innocent fantasy. Jesus would have to be a lunatic.
The quote by J.S. Mill seems to be itself
crazy to say about a man who could be considered a lunatic.
Listen to what Even Channing, a Unitarian
writer, says about the lunatic theory:
The charge of an extravagant, self-deluding enthusiasm is the last to be
fastened on Jesus. Where can we find the traces of it in the history? Do we
detect them in the claim of authority of His precepts? In the mild, practical
and beneficent spirit of His religion; in the simplicity of the language with
which He unfolds His high powers and the sublime truths of religion; or in the
good sense, the knowledge of human nature. Point me, if you can, to one
vehement, passionate expression of His religious feelings.
Quote from Phillip Schaff. The Person of Christ.
So is Jesus Christ Lord, Liar, or Lunatic?
Is He Lord? Then it is time to:
Accept Christ
Some
rather than accept the three options above, choose to say Jesus never existed.
We have proof on this website that He must have accepted.
Here is a quote from the Encyclopedia Britannica concerning
the testimony of the many independent secular accounts of Jesus of Nazareth:
These independent accounts prove that in ancient times even the opponents of
Christianity never doubted the historicity of Jesus, which was disputed for the
first time and on inadequate grounds by several authors at the end of the 18th,
during the 19th, and at the beginning of the 20th centuries.
BE HONEST WITH YOURSELF
We encourage every visitor to be honest with yourself. With all the evidence
that we have provided what stops you from accepting the Gospel of Jesus Christ?
Is it because there is not enough evidence, or is it because you would have to
live your life differently? Any changes that you feel you would need to make
Jesus will help you make.
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