So, years ago, I was going through the Alpha Course in my church. We got to the section on “Who is Jesus?”. And, they starting quoting Sherlock Holmes.
So, in conclusion, in the light of what Jesus claimed about himself, there are those three logical possibilities: either Jesus was insane, or he was evil, or he is God. There’s this quote attributed to the great detective Sherlock Holmes: `When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.’ As we look at that evidence — about what Jesus taught, what he did, his character, his fulfilment of prophecy, his resurrection from the dead — surely we can eliminate as impossible that Jesus was insane…..surely we can eliminate as impossible that Jesus was evil. Therefore, as Sherlock Holmes puts it, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Well, that didn’t sit well with me. You cannot quote someone who never existed, who is by all accounts made up and fictional, to prove the existence of Jesus, the Christ.
So, on that side note, using a quite popular photo, that is 100% fake/photoshopped, even if the spirit is true, doesn’t further the cause of truth.
But, that’s just my $.02.
Here I always thought that was a CS Lewis who used that...