C.S. Lewis Mere Christianity

I am trying to prevent anyone form 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 be either a lunatic-on a level with a 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 not come up with any patronizing nonsense about a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.