A man who was merely a man and said the
sort of things Jesus said would not be a good moral
teacher. He would either be a lunatic – on a 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 moral teacher. He has not left that open to us.
He did not intend to.