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by robertlagrant 953 days ago
I don't think that counts when you're claiming to be God.
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Did he request anyone kill anyone else on behalf of his claimed godliness? Donate their fortunes to him? Sleep with him? Even that lunacy seems to have avoided compromising the moral lessons, even assuming we take the written accounts literally.
Teaching people it's okay to claim you're a god sounds like a mad or bad idea if you're not one.
Sure it does. There are many people who have claimed to be God. In nearly every case they are deemed as crazy. There was even the famous case where three different men, each sincerely believing they were the return of Christ, were put together by a psychologist who had a hunch that it might snap them out of their delusions. It didn't.

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/11/15/three-christs/

That appears to be as part of Lewis' trilemma, though.