A DOOR NOT OPEN

I am trying her to prevent anyone saying the really foolish things 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 a level with the man who says he is a poached egg - - or else he would be the devil of hell.  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 patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher.  He has not left that door open to us.  He did not intend to.      - - - C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity