Continued
from previous post –
In his quest for
truth, Lewis knew that he could not have it both ways with the
identity of Jesus. Either Jesus was who he claimed to be—God in the
flesh—or his claims were false. And if they were false, Jesus could
not be a great moral teacher. Either he would be lying intentionally
or he would be a lunatic with a God complex. Conversely, we should
note that people who are trying to apprehend him are not competent to
understand him. This approach is more suitable because to understand
such great souls is not the work of ordinary people who may be
thinking that they are competent to understand Jesus. According to
Hindu belief, every body is god from within and the only difference
is that ordinary person is not aware that he/she is god from within.
All Hindu philosophy is aimed at this one approach. Therefore, by
Hindu approach this claim of Jesus that he is god is perfectly
acceptable. However, by European mind critics this approach is not
accepted since there teaching is different. They do not understand
the idea that we humans are gods from within.
Even Jesus’
harshest critics rarely have called him a liar. That label certainly
doesn’t fit with Jesus’ high moral and ethical teaching. But if
Jesus isn’t who he claimed to be, we must consider the option that
he was intentionally misleading everyone.
One of the
best-known and most influential political works of all time was
written by Niccolò Machiavelli in 1532. In his classic, The Prince,
Machiavelli exalts power, success, image, and efficiency above
loyalty, faith, and honesty. According to Machiavelli, lying is okay
if it accomplishes a political end.
Could Jesus Christ
have built his entire ministry upon a lie just to gain power, fame,
or success? In fact, the Jewish opponents of Jesus were constantly
trying to expose him as a fraud and liar. They would barrage him with
questions in attempts to trip him up and make him contradict himself.
Yet Jesus responded with remarkable consistency.
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