https://futurism.com/elon-musk-teachings-christ
Once one starts affirming the teachings of Jesus, one has only two directions to go: Leave everything and follow Him (or at least be willing to) and affirm the Resurrection or leave sorrowfully. (see the Rich Young Ruler) C.S. Lewis stated it like this:
"“I am trying 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.
We are faced, then, with a frightening alternative. This man we are talking about either was (and is) just what He said or else a lunatic, or something worse.. I have to accept the view that He was and is God.” (p. 55-56)
Legend is now offered as a 'viable' alternative to the trilemma, but with the dating of the earliest copies of the gospels, it is highly unlikely, and the Gospels also do not read like legends, especially Luke!
https://futurism.com/elon-musk-teachings-christ
Once one starts affirming the teachings of Jesus, one has only two directions to go: Leave everything and follow Him (or at least be willing to) and affirm the Resurrection or leave sorrowfully. (see the Rich Young Ruler) C.S. Lewis stated it like this:
"“I am trying 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.
We are faced, then, with a frightening alternative. This man we are talking about either was (and is) just what He said or else a lunatic, or something worse.. I have to accept the view that He was and is God.” (p. 55-56)
Legend is now offered as a 'viable' alternative to the trilemma, but with the dating of the earliest copies of the gospels, it is highly unlikely, and the Gospels also do not read like legends, especially Luke!