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!" 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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