Welcome back, everyone, to session six of this Lexio Bible study on Jesus, the biblical and historical

evidence for Christ. And now we're turning to what might be the most important topic of all.

And that is the divinity of Jesus Christ. It's one thing to say that Jesus claimed to be the Messiah, or even that he

fulfilled the prophecies of the Messiah, because if you know the Old Testament, you'll know that the

word Messiah, Meshach, just means anointed one, and it could be used for very human kings,

like King Saul, or King David, or King Solomon, right? So the fact that Jesus claims to be

the Messiah and fulfills the prophecies of the Messiah doesn't go far enough to take us all the way

all the way to what the Christian faith professes, which is that Jesus, the Messiah, is also the

divine son of God, that he is God incarnate, God made man.

And so in this session, what we're going to do is we're going to look at the question of whether

Jesus claimed to be God. Now, you might think, well, that's a silly question. Of course Jesus

claimed to be God. I mean, everybody knows that. And in fact, years ago, in 1950s, C.S. Lewis, the famous Christian apologists and writer,

a very brilliant, brilliant man, wrote a famous book called Mere Christianity,

in which he made an important explanation or argument for his own conversion to Christianity from agnosticism based on Jesus' claim to be God.

It's called the liar, lunatic, or lord argument. Has anyone ever heard about this argument?

Yeah, I read this for the first time when I was an undergraduate student, and I found it very compelling.

So what I want to do is begin our discussion of Jesus' divinity by quoting Lewis

and then saying why Lewis's argument doesn't work now. It doesn't work in our day as easily

as it did in his own. And I'll try to say why we need to not correct it, but add to it so that we can

address concerns that people have today. In his book, mere Christianity,

this is what C.S. Lewis said to people who were saying, oh, maybe Jesus was a good moral

teacher, or maybe he was a great prophet, but he wasn't divine. Lewis wrote this, quote,

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