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asaris...i'll say it once. Lewis was a smart guy. But the LLL arguement is a bunch of crap. First, it profoundly denigrates persons with mental illness. Delusions of grandour are not a reason to wholesale ignore what someone is saying. Second, it profoundly misrepresents the text. The claims to divinity are not clear in the primary witnesses to Jesus. Later texts, such as John still are only partly christological. In any case, you must first posit to literal innerancy for the Lewis argument to hold any water.
The forgiveness arguement assumes a narrow defintion of who can forgive...and who is empowered to forgive. I can tell someone that their sins are forgiven, becuase i trust in God's complete mercy. I don't need to be the wronged party to hold out the good news of God's reconciling love. I don't need to be God to do that either.
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