will not give His glory to another [Isaiah 42:8]. To believe that Jesus was only a good teacher, assuming He really claimed to be God, would be out of the question. C.S. Lewis, former atheist who became a Christian, wrote: “ 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 a 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.” [from his book, Mere Christianity .] Just as no one is ever half-pregnant, either they are, or they aren’t . In like manner, either
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