Many try to reduce Jesus Christ to a, “great moral teacher” to escape the magnitude of His divinity, and the demands of his teachings. But Jesus claimed to be much more than a great moral teacher – he claimed to be God.
Let’s ponder this with C.S Lewis, from his book 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.
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. 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. ... Now it seems to me obvious that He was neither a lunatic nor a fiend: and consequently, …I have to accept the view that He was and is God.”
Let’s Pray – Jesus our Redeemer – Thank you for breaking into our human world not as a liar or lunatic, but as the Way, the Truth and the Life – our God and our loving Lord. Amen.
This is Mike Kelly with Pray For 2 - two minute prayer reflection on the daily readings of the Church. Listen to them anytime at Prayfor2.com, or on the Redeemer Radio app.