IS JESUS GOD ? (6) COULD JESUS HAVE BEEN LYING?

                                               IS JESUS GOD ?

              part six 

                                                                               (copied from
                       Y-Jesus.com)

              COULD JESUS HAVE                                                                             BEEN LYING


Even Jesus' harshest critics have rarely 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 was written by Nicollo 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 have built His entire ministry upon a lie just to gain power, fame or success ?  In fact, the Jewish opponents of Jesus  were continually trying to expose Him as a fraud and liar.

                                          
They would  barrage           Him with questions, in         attempts to trip Him up       and contradict Himself.
Yet Jesus responded with remarkable consistency.


The question we must deal with is,  What could possibly motivate Jesus to live His entire life as a lie ?  He taught that God was opposed to lying and hypocrisy, so He wouldn't be doing it to please His Father.

He certainly didn't lie for His followers benefit, since all, but one, were martyred rather than renouncing His Lordship.  
and so we are left with only two other reasonable explanations each of which  are problematic.




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