Jesus and his disciples went on to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked them, “Who do people say I am?” They replied, “Some say [just a great moral teacher].” (Mark 8:27–28, NIV 1984).
My Musings – Once one comes to terms that Jesus was more than a myth or a legend, which is no longer seriously doubted, and has had time to sift through the Gospels and Epistles it is easy to conclude that He was indeed a great moral teacher. The Jewish historian Josephus for one said that He was “a wise man…his conduct was good, and [he] was known to be virtuous.” The problem is with the word “just.” Because He could never be “just” a great moral teacher.
“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).
My Advice – “Fall at his feet and call him Lord and God.” That really is the only legitimate conclusion. Anything less is a “really foolish thing.” But “you must make your choice.”
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The quote by C.S. Lewis is really powerful. Thank you for including it in your great post. 🙂
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Thank you for your kind words.
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