Jesus Was Not a "Nice Man"

By looking at the title the first thing you might say is, "Blasphemy! You can't say that and be a Christian!" Actually, I can. And an even better Christian than I am wrote a small discourse on the subject from one of my favorite books. Actually, you might have heard of it. It's a short book called Mere Christianity (which I highly recommend). Here is the following quote from C.S. Lewis himself:

“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."

That is why I really liked THIS BLOG POST from Matt Walsh who distinguishes the difference between being "nice" and being Christlike. Ok, so Christ really was a nice man BUT he was more than that! He preached and lived much more than that, and we should do the same.

~ Shawni, Daughter of God. At your service.