The Son Of God In C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity

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Over 2000 years ago, there purportedly was a man born of a virgin, who made outrageous claims. This man was Jesus of Nazareth and He professed to be the Son of God. Without question, Jesus is one of the most influential people that ever walked the earth, but was he the Son of God? Many suggest that he was not Lord, just a great moral teacher, which is a legitimate answer if one does not consider the bold statements that he proclaimed to the world. Lewis suggests that if Jesus was not God, but claimed to be God, then these opponents have lost their argument because he was clearly not a moral teacher but an outright liar or a crazy lunatic. On the other hand, scholars argue Jesus never professed to be God and followers of Christ distort the …show more content…

He knew what rattled them and what persuaded them. He spoke not to their logical minds, but to their aching hearts. How could he know these things if he was not God? If we take the perspective he was God, then we see he already knew these people’s thoughts, weaknesses, and hearts. Consequently, he already knew many would not believe him or follow him, yet he still died a horrific death knowing that only a few would accept him.
In Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis addresses the question if Jesus was just a great moral teacher:
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 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. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. (Lewis …show more content…

So could Jesus be the Son of God? Again, Jesus lived a life so noble, amazing, and loving that it has been remembered by billions of people and has been the center of a religion for thousands of years! If it were all a lie, why would a man die a horrific death for something he knew was not true? If he was crazy, why was there never any indication in any secular writing that would affirm this truth? He lived a life worthy of what he preached and he predicted his death and resurrection.
Josh McDowell, in More than a Carpenter, presents the notion that Jesus and his story are all a fallacy. He proposes that Jesus never existed and the story was only created to start an epidemic of religion. Apparently, this view is very common among people who have not studied the Bible or Jesus very thoroughly. He answers that same question supposing that it would take more than a Jesus to invent a Jesus. What person can create a story so perfect, whole, and appealing? This story is about love and redemption and someone more intelligent than Aristotle would have had trouble creating a story so lasting and infinite as

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