Post by Don Gieseke on Feb 1, 2012 13:18:48 GMT -6
C.S. Lewis has been called one of the most original Christian thinkers of the 20th century. Ironically, he never set out to be novel. Instead, he used his imagination to recast ancient truths in fresh and insightful ways. His conversion to Christianity was an extended process. But central to his transformation was One who had been to him the unknown God but became his intimate Savior and Friend. It was Jesus who ultimately transformed him. Lewis made it clear than none of can remain neutral in our response to Him. He wrote this in Mere Christianity:
"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 things Jesus said would not be a good moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on the level with a 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, or you can spit at Him and kill Him,.... or you can fall 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."
What will you do with Jesus??
"Our Daily Bread"
"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 things Jesus said would not be a good moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on the level with a 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, or you can spit at Him and kill Him,.... or you can fall 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."
What will you do with Jesus??
"Our Daily Bread"