January 5, 2008

C.S. Lewis on Jesus' Deity

When reading 'Complete in Christ' by Bob George, I was reminded again of the brilliance of C.S. Lewis.  Writing on the subject of the deity of Christ, George quotes the famous 'Liar, Lunatic or Lord?' argument from Lewis...

"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 up with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher.  He has not left that open to us.  He did not intend to."

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

liking the new blog Dustan, even added it to my quick shortcuts bar!