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[C.S. Lewis] |
"... The pure light walks the earth; the darkness, received into the heart of Deity, is there swallowed up ...” |
| Was Jesus a great moral teacher? | |
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A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things that Jesus said wouldn’t be a great moral teacher. He’d be either a lunatic—on the level with a man who says he’s a poached egg—or else he’d 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 ... But don’t let us come up with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He hasn't left that open to us. He didn't intend to. |
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| The Incarnation | |
| In the Incarnation, God the Son takes the body and human soul of Jesus, and, through that, the whole environment of Nature, all the creaturely predicament, into His own being. So that “He came down from Heaven” can almost be transposed into “Heaven drew earth up into it,” and locality, limitation, sleep, sweat, footsore weariness, frustration, pain, doubt, and death, are, from before all worlds, known by God from within. The pure light walks the earth; the darkness, received into the heart of Deity, is there swallowed up. Where, except in uncreated light, can the darkness be drowned? | |