The following observation is attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte: \u201cI marvel that whereas the ambitious dreams of myself, Caesar, Alexander, should have vanished into thin air, a Judean peasant, Jesus, should be able to stretch His hands across the destinies of men and nations.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know men; and I tell you that Jesus Christ is no mere man. Between him and every other person in the world there is no possible term of comparison. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I myself have found empires; but upon what do these creations of our genius depend? Upon force. Jesus alone founded his empire upon love; and to this very day millions would die for Him.\u201d124<\/p>\n
\u201cHe went about saying to people, \u2018I forgive your sins.\u2019 Now it is quite natural for a man to forgive something you do to him.<\/i> Thus if somebody cheats me<\/i> out of five pounds it is quite possible and reasonable for me to say, \u2018Well, I forgive him, we will say no more about it.\u2019 What on earth would you say if somebody had done you<\/i> out of five pounds and I<\/i> said, \u2018That is all right, I forgive him\u2019?\u201d (C. S. Lewis, God in the Dock<\/i> [Grand Rapids: Wm. Eerdmans, 1970], Hooper, Walter, ed., p. 157).125<\/p>\n
\u201cA man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said wouldn\u2019t be a great moral teacher. He\u2019d either be a lunatic\u2014on the level with a man who says he\u2019s a poached egg\u2014or else he\u2019d 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\u201d (C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity<\/i> [New York: The Macmillan Co., 1952], pp. 40\u201341).126<\/p>\n
\u201cA Savior not quite God is like a bridge broken at the further end\u201d (Bishop Moule).127<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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