Monday, May 22, 2006

Quote by C. S. Lewis

I received the Patriot Post Number 06-21 today. The Patriot Post is a conservative organization that is supported by subscribers. Subscribers can receive well thought out emails (they're considered well thought out unless you're leftist, liberal, or Democrat) from them that address various issues of the day.
Today, they sent out a particularly good quote from C. S. Lewis. I think you'll see why when you read it. "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 one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of thing 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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