Trilemma - Lord, Liar or Lunatic

In my sermon this weekend (Jesus-Source of Grace and Truth, John 1:1-18), I quoted C.S. Lewis (Author of 'Chronicles of Narnia) on what is now popularly known as Lewis' Trilemma about Jesus. It's reproduced here. For further reading, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis

He himself was an agnostic but when confronted with the claims of Christ, he said the following:

“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 one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of thing 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 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 up with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”