If you have ever read C.S. Lewis, you might have come across a phrase that went something like this...
~ He was either just who he said he was, the Christ, or He was a total lunatic, like someone who thought he was a fried egg ~
I have made my choice. The rest of you have been given free will to make your own.
I just wish I could be less a sinner than I am, so cast no stones in anyone else’s direction.
“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.”
Amen.