Quote by C.S. Lewis

I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing thatpeople often say about Him: I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moralteacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God. That is the one thing wemust not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesussaid would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic--on alevel with the man who says he is a poached egg--or else he would be theDevil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, theSon of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for afool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at Hisfeet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronisingnonsense about His being a great moral teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.

I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish

Summary

In this quote, C.S. Lewis challenges the common notion that Jesus can be accepted solely as a moral teacher while disregarding His claim to be God. Lewis argues that if Jesus were merely a human and made the profound claims He did, He would either be insane or deliberately deceitful. To dismiss Jesus as a great moral teacher without considering His divinity would be a condescending oversimplification. Lewis emphasizes that Jesus has left no room for ambiguity in His teachings; one must choose to take Him as either a divine figure, a madman, or something worse.

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