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C.S. Lewis on the Deity of Christ
This is a famous quote, but I'm sure there are some of you who aren't familiar with it, or may not know who it originated from. Besides, I think it is an excellent insight, and I really like it. It's my blog, so I'll post 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 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 patronising 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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fitzage on 09/22 at 02:13 PM •
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Mainly cause I’m an idiot, I realized my Gravatar probably wasn’t showing because I was entering the wrong email address.
Anyway, great quote. We were just reading in family Bible reading about how the Greeks in Pisidian Antioch believed in great numbers. I explained to the kids how it may have been much easier for such an educated people who were pretty disappointed with the impossibility of their own polytheism to believe in the obvious One True God once they heard of Him. Philosophically, they had been searching for Him all their lives, and they were only too happy to believe.
The Jews in Antioch, though, were pretty upset with Paul and Barnabas and as a result Paul stated that he would no longer preach to them.
I say all that to say this: isn’t it interesting how the original philosophical scholars were only too eager to accept Christ as the Son of God, but today’s intellectuals believe Him to be simply a wise teacher of social proverbs. “But He said He is the Son of God!” Lewis is right, He was either certifiable or He really is Who He said He is. It’s interesting that the Greeks seemed to have understood that the teaching could NOT possibly be just nice Aesop-like fables. For all our technological gadgets, we sure aren’t that bright as a people these days, eh?
Posted by on 09/22 at 07:27 PM
I’ve always like that quote. I used to quote it where I worked (H&R;Block). I’m not sure it did any good, but I’ve always liked it.
Posted by on 09/22 at 07:30 PM
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