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C. S. Lewis, the brilliant Oxford professor who began his life an atheist,
but ended it a devout follower of Jesus Christ wrote:
I am trying. . . 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 a 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. Mere Christianity, 55-56.
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