{"id":137,"date":"2008-02-03T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-03T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=137"},"modified":"2008-02-03T08:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-03T13:25:00","slug":"sunday-prayers-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>C.S. Lewis wrote some great books.  A lot of people know him best because he wrote the Chronicles of Narnia.  But he also wrote a lot of books geared more toward adults &#8211; very clear and logical arguments that deal with the truth of Biblical Christianity.  Here is one of my favorite quotes from &#8220;<strong>Mere Christianity<\/strong>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>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 either be a lunatic &#8211; on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg &#8211; 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 human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.<\/em>&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/R6UWL4cFFrI\/AAAAAAAAAt4\/uQjRG2HtAqo\/s1600-h\/lake.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_8YuevXJXjqg\/R6UWL4cFFrI\/AAAAAAAAAt4\/uQjRG2HtAqo\/lake.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5162556941234673330\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C.S. Lewis wrote some great books. A lot of people know him best because he wrote the Chronicles of Narnia. But he also wrote a lot of books geared more toward adults &#8211; very clear and logical arguments that deal &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=137\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}