(Video) Jesus: Lunatic, Liar, or Lord?

Have you ever heard anyone call Jesus a great moral teacher or a prophet? In my opinion, that's not a valid argument to deny that Jesus claimed to be God.

British writer and theologian, C.S. Lewis, explains the implications of this decision:

“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

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