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Only if you assume that everything written about him is accurate. If his biographers were mistaken or made things up, then he could have been just a regular rel

• krapp 5y ago
  Bear in mind that Christianity was an oral tradition and there were dozens or more gospels and various traditions like Gnosticism which would later become heresy, and none of the canonical gospels are believed to have been written sooner than a century after Jesus' lifetime, and not by their attested authors. It would literally be impossible for everything written about him to be accurate. CS Lewis' Jesus is the result of judicious editing by the Council of Nicaea leaving a lot on the cutting room floor. >Lewis seems like a smart guy, so I’m not sure how he missed that possibility. He was a Christian. By definition he believed in the correctness of scripture. He wasn't actually trying to consider rational alternatives to Jesus' divinity, but to convince the listener that simply accepting Jesus as a moral teacher was absurd with a classic false dichotomy - that one must either accept Jesus as the Son of God or dismiss him as a lunatic. Of course, those aren't really the only possibilities, as the criticism page on Lewis' trilemma shows[0]. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis%27s_trilemma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis%27s_trilemma
  • mbg721 5y ago
    For better or worse, Christianity's explanation of that is that the eyewitnesses didn't expect to have to write about it for future generations; Jesus said he'd be right back.