IS JESUS GOD/? - PART SIX

                                                IS JESUS GOD ?

         PART SIX 

     (copied from
       Y-Jesus.com)


Could Jesus have been lying ?

Even Jesus' harshest critics rarely have called Him a liar.  The label certainly does not 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 influential political works of all time, was written by Niccolo 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.

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 have been 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. (See  Did the apostles believe Jesus is God?)  

And so we are left with only two reasonable  explanations, both of which are problematic.  


next post tomorrow 1st August