As CS Lewis wrote in Mere Christianity:
"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. ... Now it seems to me obvious that He was neither a lunatic nor a fiend: and consequently, however strange or terrifying or unlikely it may seem, I have to accept the view that He was and is God."
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“...For all men of good will to whom creation speaks as a wonderful work of God, for all honest men who feel within themselves the experience of emptiness and of hunger for truth and justice for all men who search for a meaning in life and a destiny to pursue, for all of those and to all of them Christ offers Himself as the way, the truth and the life which begin and end with God.”
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Praise the Lord!
Father help us in our day, in Jesus name, amen.
save for later
The proof of the Incarnation is in the music. If it were not authentic, we would not have “Silent Night”, we would not be singing lullabyes to the Christ Child.
O, we have a Mother who will sing with us. Even if we cannot carry a tune, perhaps our breath will warm Him?
A few people have told me that Jesus is but a crutch. My answer was, well, most of us are spiritual cripples. I get comfort from leaning on Him.