The Trilemma In C. S. Lewis Atheistic Life

During the time Lewis was in college and later as a tutor for the college, some his readings exposed him to material by christian authors. Those authors were George MacDonald, and G.K. Chesterton,who was also a journalist, this is a quote of Lewis speaking of the effect these two authors had on his atheistic life, “In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere. . . God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.” (www.gci.org). And just as his quote says these softening of his heart over the years eventually lead him to accepting Christ. He has quite the interesting testimony, …show more content…
Along side all of his prolific writings was many profound philosophical statements, one of these was his theoretical Trilemma, this was something proposed by Lewis to make someone see their standing on their belief of what Jesus was. Lewis states in the Trilemma that since almost no one opposes that Jesus was an actual man, just that he was not God, they must have a standing on what he was. So Lewis proposed the Trilemma, that Jesus was either a Liar and all that he said was not true, that he was a Lunatic and everything he said was merely the ravings of a crazy man, or last, that he was Lord, that he was truly what he said he was and really came to Earth in the form of an to die for our sins. And almost every man can look at this and file himself into one of these categories, and when they look into the Bible for themselves and truly read it, most people can very quickly rule out that Jesus was a liar or a lunatic and that they fall into the category of believing that he was and is Lord. This is a profound theologic thought of Lewis’ that has lead many lost people to