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
something 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 patronizing nonsense about His being a great human
teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.
C. S. Lewis
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