Poached Egg?

In his famous book, Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis makes this statement, "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 the level with a man who says he is a poached egg--or he would be the devil of hell. You must take your choice. Either this was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us.”

 A number of years ago, a pastor I know made the statement that, as a “recovering intellectual”, this book opened his, then closed, mind to Christ.  Jesus was a great teacher, but he is so much more than that.  How many teachers do you know that have secured eternity for you? Our minds are the biggest deterrent to personally accepting Christ.  We need to have him proved to us, beyond human doubt. Good news, there is a lot of information out there, and it is our responsibility to extrapolate the truth, with God’s help, from what is available.

 Jesus asked his disciples who people thought he was, and they answered, "some say John the Baptist, some say Elijah, and others say you are one of the other ancient prophets risen from the dead." Then he asked them, "But who do you say I am?" Peter replied, "You are the Messiah sent from God!" Peter had been with Jesus for 3 years, he had come to really know, with all his heart, mind and spirit, so his answer was immediate. Are you still in intellectual, or searching mode? Every person on earth is asked to make this same choice, and not choosing, is still a choice. So, who do you say Jesus is; poached egg or the Son of God?

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