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Whom
Do They Say I Am?
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C.S. Lewis
"Jesus
of Nazareth, without science and learning, . . . shed more
light on things human and divine, than all the philosophers
and scholars combined; without the eloquence of school, He
spoke words of life such as were never spoken before, nor
since."
"When
God chose to reveal himself, He did so through a human body.
The tongue that called forth the dead was a human one. The
hand that touched the leper had dirt under the finger nails.
The feet upon which the woman wept were calloused and dusty.
And His tears came from a heart as broken as yours and mine
ever has been."
"In
Jesus not only do we have a window to God, we also have a
mirror of ourselves. Human beings were, after all, created
in the image of God; Jesus reveals what that image should
look like."
"Of
the great religious leaders of the world, Christ alone
claims deity. It really doesn't matter what one thinks of
Mohammed, Buddha or Confucius as individuals. Their
followers emphasize their teachings. Not so with Christ, he
made Himself the focal point of His teaching. The central
question that He put to His listeners was, whom do you say
that I am?"
"A
man who is merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus
said would not be a great moral teacher. He would 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."
~CS
Lewis
Then
Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on
earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples
of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and
of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey
everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you
always, to the very end of the age."
Matthew
28: 18-20
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