I am trying to prevent anyone from saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: “I am ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claims to be God.” That is one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things that 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. C. S. LEWIS (1898-1963) - author, historian and professor at Oxford and Cambridge Universities. He served in World War I, 1918; taught at Magdalen College, Oxford, 1925–54; and was professor of medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge University, 1954–63. Though his death went almost unnoticed, having died on the same day that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, his works have become some of the most widely read in English literature. His works include: The Pilgrim’s Regress, 1933; 2, 1936; Out of the Silent Planet, 1938; The Problem of Pain, 1940; The Screwtape Letters, 1942; Perelandra, 1943; That Hideous Strength, 1945; Miracles, 1947; The Chronicles of Narnia, 1950; and Mere Christianity, 1952; and his autobiography, Surprised by Joy, 1955.
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