-OBJECTION: I believe in Jesus but not as divine. He was simply a great moral teacher.
-RESPONSE: Jesus as anything but the Savior and Second Person in a Triune Godhead isn’t a reasonable proposition. He openly declares Himself to be more than a man and moral teacher (Mt 16:15-20; Jn 5:18, 8:58, 9:35-38; Rev 1:8,17-18). If He’s only a good moral teacher, then He cannot atone for your sins, and people everywhere are without hope. C.S. Lewis put it this way:
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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