The Trilemma

     Lord, Lunatic, or Liar? That is the question we are going to answer today. This spurs from the following quote from CS Lewis: "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."
     Jesus did exist and claimed to be God. Either His claim is false or it is true. Let's look at if Jesus' claim was false. We first must break this down into two categories: he knew or he did not know. IF Jesus knew his claim was false then he deliberately misinterprets the truth making him a liar. This also makes Jesus a fool because He died for it. This claim would also make him a demon, resulting in us relying in our own work. If Jesus did not know his claim was false, then He would be sincerely deluded or lunatic. We know that Jesus was not a lunatic because children came up to Jesus (see Luke 18:15-17).
      If Jesus' statement of being God is true, then He is LORD. We can either accept or reject this. When we reject Jesus as being Lord, we are in a state of rebellion, but if we accept that Jesus is Lord then we are in submission.