The question of Jesus’s own understanding of his identity is critical toward answering Lewis’s tri-lemma: Liar, Lunatic, or Lord? A fourth option, “Legend” comes into the discussion from various critical scholars, but does it avoid the Lunatic category? Dr. J works through the third chapter in Bart Ehrman’s book “How Jesus Became God.”
Dan McClellan’s video can be found here:    • I’m wrong about who killed Goliath?!? Â
0:04:46 Intro Music
0:05:18 Welcome and Introduction
0:06:57 C.S. Lewis’s Trilemma and the Legend Option
0:09:18 Announcements: Book Club, Responding to Dan McClellan, Movie Fundraiser
0:13:56 Jesus’ Claims to be God: Only in John?
0:16:41 Taking the Gospels at Face Value
0:20:24 Gospels as the Best Sources That Are Not That Good
0:22:10 The Time Gap
0:23:30 The Telephone Game Argument Regarding Oral Tradition
0:25:04 Bart’s Own Exaggeration
0:31:12 Methods
0:34:05 Five Independent Sources
0:38:16 Criterion One: Independent Attestation
0:39:41 Criterion Two: Dissimilarity
0:40:58 Criterion Three: Contextual Credibility
0:41:49 Jesus’ Historical and Cultural Context
0:42:57 Jesus Apocalypsist
0:47:23 Example of Dissimilarity
0:49:24 Critiquing Ehrman’s Methodology
0:57:47 Critiquing Dan McClelland’s Video About the Killing of Goliath
1:18:05 Wrap Up
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