"At this time of year many
people consider the question "Who is Jesus Christ?" Many reply:
"He is a good teacher, but I cannot accept his claim to be God, the Son of
God or a Savior!" C. S. Lewis replies to that statement this way:
"That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and
said the things Jesus said would not be a good moral teacher. He would be a
lunatic -- on the level of a 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."
- - Mere Christianity, p. 41
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