{"id":3649,"date":"2012-03-20T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=3649"},"modified":"2012-03-20T00:34:01","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T07:34:01","slug":"some-c-s-lewis-for-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=3649","title":{"rendered":"Some C.S. Lewis for Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m having a seriously tough time trying to come up with something so accept some C.S. Lewis today.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: &#8216;I&#8217;m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don&#8217;t accept His claim to be God.&#8217; 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 be either 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 patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8212; C.S. Lewis in <u>Mere Christianity<\/u><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m having a seriously tough time trying to come up with something so accept some C.S. Lewis today. &#8220;I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: &#8216;I&#8217;m ready to accept &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=3649\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,1,2,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booksmagazines","category-daily-life","category-faith","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-WR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3649"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3652,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649\/revisions\/3652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}