Saturday, May 08, 2010
The Trilemma
Reading John 5 in my God Sightings One Year Bible today. As I read the passage, Jesus' words struck me again. His claims are not veiled or hidden.A decision must be made about WHO Jesus is. C.S. Lewis called this the trilemma; and in his book, Mere Christianity, he makes this assertion: "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 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 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."
Thus, the trilemma - the decision that everyone must make about who Jesus is. He was either liar, lunatic, or He is truly Lord. What we conclude can change everything about our lives.
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