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Getbig Misc Discussion Boards => Religious Debates & Threads => Topic started by: tbombz on April 15, 2010, 12:20:37 PM
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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 the 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.
-cs lewis
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"Mere Christianity" right?
A great book!
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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 the 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.
-cs lewis
Or.... it could be we are set up with false choices. There are other alternative choices. For example, Jesus could have been misquoted, or never actually claimed what was attributed to him in the bible. Since many of the anonymous manuscripts (later given names) were written well after his death, it's very possible many things were attributed to him after the fact that were not true.
Just a thought..
While I enjoyed reading Mere Christianity, More than a Carpenter, and similar books like Evidence that Demands a Verdict by J.M., I couldn't help notice the obvious flaws in most of thier arguments and evidences. But I guess if you already believe.. they are a great read.