Jesus, You Crazy Man
Posted by justicetabernacle on May 29, 2009
i was listening to a podcast this morning about Jesus being the fulfillment of the law. very interesting stuff- i’d recommend anyone who wants to hear more about who Jesus really was and claimed to be- to check out matt chandler of the village church in tx- (click below and look for this date and title)
11.30.08- Jesus, The Fulfillment of The Law- Luke (Part 34)
basically he lays out that Jesus was not a great moral teacher- and was really totally crazy (i believe he uses the word loon!) if He just made up all of the stuff that He actually asserted. This is a play off of c.s. lewis’ description from his book ‘mere christianity’
“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 said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on a 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 patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.” (Lewis, C.S. (Clive Staples), Mere Christianity, revised edition, New York, Macmillan/Collier, 1952, p. 55 ff)
i believe He is Lord…
*hasler
