By the way, the Lewis trilemma is silly. It is possible for a person to be mistaken about something without being either mad or a liar (i.e. deliberately tellin

By the way, the Lewis trilemma is silly. It is possible for a person to be mistaken about something without being either mad or a liar (i.e. deliberately telling untruths). Regarding the Gospels it is well known they are written down decades after the events and based on an evolving tradition of beliefs. The gospel writers might only have written things they believed were the literal truth even though some of it is obviously legends rather than historical facts. For example Jesus is a completely different person in John than he is in Mark, but that does not mean any of the authors where deliberately making things up. Given the available sources, it is quite unlikely that Jesus considered himself a God. He might have considered himself the Messiah in the Jewish sense of a human prophet king and savior of the people.