 I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, they say, but I don't accept his claim to be God. And C.S. Lewis said, 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 either be a lunatic on the level with the man who says he's a poached egg, or else he would be the devil of hell.