-C.S. Lewis, the British author and professor at Cambridge and Oxford Universities, once an agnostic himself, wrote these words about Jesus Christ in his book Mere Christianity.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
"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 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."
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Hey Will...
Trav made me come over here to your blog. Cool thoughts man. I remember being faced with this thought during my first year of college. I hadn't given my life to Christ and was pretty skeptical about Jesus. I know it ultimately comes down to faith and trust but it is great to have words from a guy like C.S. Lewis to make us think.
I am curious what someone who does not share our belief would say in response to this quote... hmmmm... maybe someone else will comment.
Thanks Will.
Curtis
Hey Curtis -
Thanks for the thoughts. Trav talks about you constantly, so may we'll get to meet up some day. Regarding your comment, I have actually had some stimulating conversations started from this quote. If you are talking to someone who doesn't believe in God/Jesus at all, you have to start somewhere else. You are right though, CS Lewis was a great writer and apologist and is one of the mainstays on my bookshelf.
-Will
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