C. S. Lewis said:
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 be either 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.
From Mere Christianity
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1 comment:
C.S. Lewis is my hero. Well, he and Tolkien.(;
Yes...Phantastes is an excellent book. I read it for the first time this year, one in a string of MacDonald books i devoured almost all at once. Once you discover something like that it's hard to let it go right away!
When i post on my blog it is most often for two reasons...either when i'm really inspired by something...or very bothered/upset about somehting. So what people get is the two extremes with a few hum-drum "this is what i did today" types of posts thrown in there once in a while. o well.
thank you for the encouraging comments...i look forward to poking arund your blog, too.
colleen
p.s. Perelandra, by the way, is one of the most brilliant, inspired things i've ever experienced. I do believe it constituted one of the aforementioned "inspired by" posts back in June. Just so you know. (:
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