Getting away from Islam for a while ("While? Its been a week!")

One of the arguments Christan have for the divinity of Jesus is Lewis's trilemma; Lewis's trilemma is the argument that Jesus was ether "liar, lunatic or lord" and sense Jesus taught good things he couldn't have been liar because he would be immoral and wouldn't teach good things and couldn't be a lunatic because a lunatic wouldn't be able to teach good things because he would have been crazy thus he must be Lord.

The first problem with this is its a false trichotomy, Jesus could have been fictionalized or even completely mythological. There could have been a Yoshua (Jesus' actual name) who started a cult in the first century and what actually happened was altered and added too. The story of Jesus could have been completely mythological, there was no actual Yashua who started a cult that became Christianity, it started out as stories that developed over time. The two are not mutually exclusive; I personally take the multi-source hypothesis: the story of Jesus is an amalgamation of multiple stories about people who actually existed but their stories got combined into a single nutritive and combined with Jewish and Pagan mythologies.

Then there's the argument that Jesus couldn't be a liar or a lunatic because he had good teachings. Thats only if you pick and choose. Jesus was a prick, he wasn't a good person. He had his disciples steal a donkey for him (Matthew 21:1-3), he (initaly) refused to help Canaanite woman because she was Canaanite and he called her a dog (Matthew 15:22-26) and he told a guy whose father had recently died: "Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead.". Jesus wasn't a good person.

Lets put Jesus' immorality aside for a moment and say he had only good teachings. He could have still been a liar or a lunatic. Just because someone is a conman doesn't mean he is a sociopath, hell a person can be evil and still have some good in him. Look at real life section of TVtropes Even Evil Has Standards or this Cracked article. Just because a person is crazy doesn't mean he can't have good ideas. Nikola Tesla was a brilliant man and contributed allot to science but he also claimed he could make a death ray and claimed he made an earthquake machine. Jesus could have been a lunatic, a liar or both, hell if you accept the possibility that gods exist, he could have been a lying god, a lunatic god or a lying, lunatic god.

The trilemma utterly fails as an argument.
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