Who Do You Say I Am

“Who do you say I am?”

 (Matthew)

Do not say the really foolish thing people often say about Him. That they are ready to accept Him as a great moral teacher, but not as the Son of God.

C.S. Lewis sums it up beautifully:

That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of thing Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic – on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg – or else he would the devil from 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.

From: Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis