This is a quote from the AWESOME theologian, C.S. Lewis.
It was birthed in his book “Mere Christianity”.
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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