Christianity is either our means of attaining eternal salvation and therefore an infinitely important law to live by, or it’s a cruel joke and a destructive lie. To embrace anything in between is to embrace some half-truth or distortion of reality.
Either Jesus is the means of our eternal salvation or he isn’t. There is no in between. If he is, then what else is left to do but to give every second of our entire life on Earth loving and following him. If he isn’t, then we should stop wasting our time and playing games. There is no in between.
C.S. Lewis, a popular British theologian, continues, "I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: '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 the 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."
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