Lunatic, Liar, or Lord

The problem with the “even if Jesus was not God, he was still a great moral teacher” schtick goes to Lewis’s famous trilemma: lunatic, liar, or Lord.

I hear so many people who like to applaud Jesus as some moral model for the world while totally ignoring his true character and primary purpose. The problem is, if you praise the former (his morality) and ignore the latter (his divinity) as “unimportant,” you’ve signed on to praising a complete lunatic or a pathological liar because this man claimed to be God, claimed to be the sacrificial lamb for the eternal good of humanity. The only thing left then, is Lord.

If you find yourself praising this man who may be either a lunatic or a liar, maybe he’s not those things. Maybe he’s Lord. And maybe you need to come to terms with the ramifications of that truth.