Who is Jesus? C S Lewis

I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really  foolish thing that people often say about Christ: '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 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 up with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great moral teacher.

He has not left that option open to us. He did not intend to.

                         -- From Mere Christianity, by C S Lewis