Continuing my Lenten study of Jesus....
"...let's be very clear about something. If Jesus is not who he claimed to be, he is a liar, but not just your average liar--he's the biggest liar in the history of the world. And if Jesus is not who he claimed to be, then he perpetrated the biggest fraud in history and every church you drive past is a monument to that fraud.
Is it really possible? What kind of conspiracy theory would be required to turn Jesus into the biggest liar and fraudster in the history of the world?
C.S. Lewis was one of the clearest thinkers of the twentieth century. In his book Mere Christianity, he indirectly addressed the Jesus question:
'A Man who was merely a man 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 take 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 of God. But let us not come with patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us.'
There is no evidence that Jesus was a lunatic........
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But answering the Jesus question is not easy. Is he a liar, a lunatic, or God? Each of us must arrive at our own answer, in our own time. What other people say can help us gain insight, but ultimately we must arrive at the answer on our own."
Sending you guys all lots of love.
Have a beautiful night.
Go change the world. Do it for Elijah..
Thank you
Wherever you are...
I hope to someday be with you again.
Holding you in my arms again
would be heaven enough.
I love and miss you so much Elijah.
Always.
<3
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