{"id":167,"date":"2012-04-08T09:26:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T14:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging2.butchrenfroe.com\/?p=167"},"modified":"2012-04-08T09:26:24","modified_gmt":"2012-04-08T14:26:24","slug":"happy-easter-heres-a-c-s-lewis-quote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/butchrenfroe.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/08\/happy-easter-heres-a-c-s-lewis-quote\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Easter.  Here&#8217;s A C.S. Lewis Quote."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>C.S. Lewis basically puts it all in a nutshell with this quote from Mere Christianity:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I\u2019m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don\u2019t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">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 \u2014 on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg \u2014 or else he would be the Devil of Hell.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">He has not left that open to us. \u00a0He did not intend to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>\u2014 C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C.S. Lewis basically puts it all in a nutshell with this quote from Mere Christianity: &#8220;I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I\u2019m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don\u2019t accept his claim to be God. That is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/butchrenfroe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/butchrenfroe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/butchrenfroe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/butchrenfroe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/butchrenfroe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/butchrenfroe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/butchrenfroe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/butchrenfroe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/butchrenfroe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}