Who Do You Say He Is?

C.S. Lewis  (1898–1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. He  was a novelist and renowned Christian apologist. He is famous for the classic Narnia fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Witch, The Lion and the Wardrobe and also for his pro-Christian texts, The Case For Christianity,  Mere Christianity, The Problem of Pain and many others.

 Here is one of my favorite quotes of his that I've used many times when I'm asked why I'm a Christian and believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God.. When you read scripture Mark 14:61, Matthew 26:63, Jesus never sugar coated his response when asked by the  Jewish Sanhedrin if He was God.  So I ask you, do you believe Jesus was a liar? Do you believe he was crazy? Or do you believe He is  who He said He is?

Here is what C.S. Lewis would answer:

"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