On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 18:51:00 -0600 Mountain Man <maontin....@gmail.com>
wrote:
> dseretakis wrote:
> > Christ was a great man. He should be honored and acknowledged.
> >
>
> Christmas is no honor acknowledgement to Christ. It comes as more of a
> disgrace to the reality of anything that Christ said or did. Read what
> is written - it really is decent stuff, whether you follow Smith or
> Mohammad or whatever. Forget about what your neighbor says about
> Christ - read it, like a good decent DIY person.
I agree that Christmas now is no honor or acknowledgement to Christ.
I'll answer dseretakis (and maybe mao) with a quote from C.S. Lewis in
_Mere Christianity_ :
“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.”
Craig
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