tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-526230544778244008.post1918109665879372399..comments2023-04-06T04:51:26.804-07:00Comments on The Logos: The Myth: The Early Church did not Believe Christ to be DivineHo-Logoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18042986872171374484noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-526230544778244008.post-80773504039775932932009-03-28T21:45:00.000-07:002009-03-28T21:45:00.000-07:00No problem. Any honest reading of the New Testamen...No problem. Any honest reading of the New Testament gives rise to the Trilemma of C.S. Lewis:<BR/><BR/>"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 things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the 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 patronising nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. ... Now it seems to me obvious that He was neither a lunatic nor a fiend: and consequently, however strange or terrifying or unlikely it may seem, I have to accept the view that He was and is God."<BR/>- Lewis, C.S., Mere Christianity, London: Collins, 1952, p54-56.Ho-Logoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18042986872171374484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-526230544778244008.post-25671783894509463162009-03-28T21:16:00.000-07:002009-03-28T21:16:00.000-07:00Great post and great summary by "anonymous" above!...Great post and great summary by "anonymous" above!<BR/><BR/>God blessAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-526230544778244008.post-42194474907928096882009-03-28T16:23:00.000-07:002009-03-28T16:23:00.000-07:00Thank you so much for this posting. This is excel...Thank you so much for this posting. This is excellent, and much appreciated.<BR/><BR/>To the point: "In these gospels, when Jesus is taken to be crucified, He is put to death for being blasphemous. Jesus claimed that God would indicate that Jesus was Son of man, One who was seated at the right hand of God and rode the clouds (something only deity does in the Bible). This is the same divine honor and glory shared with God that Paul and John referred to in their writings. All of these writings agree that Jesus is divine."<BR/><BR/>It's quite enlightening to realize that Jesus was given the sentence of death NOT for what he had done, but rather, FOR WHO HE CLAIMED TO BE!<BR/><BR/>Indeed, the Jews understood EXACTLY what Jesus meant. "The Jews who heard this utterance believed that Jesus blasphemed, which meant He insulted the unique dignity of God by His claim. To understand the Jewish background of the scene is to appreciate the exalted self-claim that Jesus was making."<BR/><BR/>Jesus made it clear to them that He was GOD!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com