"We don't like to talk about death, yet it comes for us all," he says.
"When our hearts stop beating and our brains shut down and our last breath rasps from our lungs, is that the end?
"Death is not the end," Hudberg contends. "It's a doorway."
And what we believe about Jesus Christ's life, death, and resurrection determines where that 'doorway' leads: Heaven or Hell said Jesus Christ Himself.
According to literary scholar, C.S. Lewis' famous argument (or "trilemma" as it's become known), Jesus was either a "Lunatic, Liar, or Lord".
Your choice between these three options will have eternal ramifications. Says Lewis, a former atheist:
"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him:
"I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God."That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic--on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg--or else he would be the Devil of Hell."
"You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is the Son of God, or else a madman or worse.
"You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to...
"Now it seems to me obvious that He was neither a lunatic nor a fiend; and consequently, however strange or terrifying or unlikely it may seem, I have to accept the view that He was and is God," Lewis opined.
So, was Jesus mad, bad, or God?
Your choice in life determines which doorway will open for you at death: Heaven or Hell.
A wise man once said: "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." -- C.S. Lewis
"Jesus told him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through Me." John 14:6
"I am the door. Those who come in through Me will be saved." John 10:9News
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God can not anything in our life. We have to learn to recognize the lies of Satan and stop believing him. We need to glance at our problems and stare at Christ. Then we have the mind of Christ and think like God thinks.
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