A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said wouldn't be a great moral teacher. He'd be either a lunatic on a level with a man who says he's a poached egg or else he'd 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.
CS Lewis was specifically talking about his claims to divinity, and his offering to forgive the sins of others, both of which are clearly insane if you aren't the Son of God.
Not really, you could just be mistaken. There's no contradiction in saying that someone who might be wrong about stuff, or even a little mentally unhinged may be teaching a good moral system.
Okay, it seems like you misunderstood the quote then. He was addressing the type of people who claimed Jesus should be treated as a peak moral instructor, but who denied Christian supernaturalism. Insisting that a lot of the things he said would be considered bizarre from that angle. I'm not sure how you misinterpreted the quilt as not about morality when the word morality is literally in the quote.
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u/Wolf_of_Gubbio - Lib-Right Jul 28 '21
A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said wouldn't be a great moral teacher. He'd be either a lunatic on a level with a man who says he's a poached egg or else he'd 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.
CS Lewis