I am trying here to prevent anyone from saying
the really foolish thing that people often say
about Him [Jesus 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 a 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 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 human
teacher. He has not left that option open
to us. He did not intend to