![]() ![]() 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. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. Lewis maintained in his classic statement “Mere Christianity”: “That is the one thing we must not say. Writing to John Adams in 1813, having taken his razor blade to the books of the New Testament and removed all “the artificial vestments in which they have been muffled by priests,” Thomas Jefferson said the 46-page residue contained “the most sublime and benevolent code of morals which has ever been offered to man.” Ernest Renan, in his pathbreaking “Life of Jesus” in 1863, also repudiated the idea that Jesus was the son of God while affirming the beauty of his teachings. ![]() Belief in the divinity of Jesus of Nazareth and belief in the virtue of his teachings are not at all the same thing. ![]()
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