21 October 2020

Luther and Lewis

For there is one baptism, one Christ, one Sacrament, one meal, one Gospel, one faith, one Spirit, one spiritual body, and each one is a member of the other; no other brotherhood is so deep and so close.—Martin Luther, Sermon on the Sacrament of the Body of Christ, 1519

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 on 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.—C. S. Lewis, Business of Heaven, p. 264.

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