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 patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.
–C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, pages 40-41.
Thursday, September 13, 2007
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I've always liked that quote. I don't think it could be put any more clearer.
If you still get the Chronicle, check out the Sept. 12, 2007 edition. Longtime CC School Librarian Donna Emerson is apparently a daughter to the late author Lloyd Biggle Jr. In the Sept. 12 story of the CCC, there is a picture of a letter sent to Lloyd Biggle Jr. from J.R.R. Tolkien in December of 196?. Cool stuff.
That's cool.
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