To: SeekAndFind
"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: Im ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I dont 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 that Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic on a level with the man who says that 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 patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."
~C.S. Lewis
60 posted on
08/31/2020 3:20:30 AM PDT by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: Joe 6-pack
I always liked CS Lewis, especially the Screwtape letters. 👍
152 posted on
09/02/2020 3:25:31 AM PDT by
Mark17
(USAF Retired. Father of a US Air Force commissioned officer, and trained Air Force combat pilot.)
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