Jesus takes on somewhat of a fanciful, fairy tale appearance at Christmas. He is just a really, really nice idea and he makes all the Christmas stuff seem so legitimate and fun. He is just a really, really good baby. He doesn't even cry. Of course he is also so nice to bad people and accepts everyone! C. S. Lewis, speaking in 1942 said this about Jesus.
I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. 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 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. . . . Now it seems to me obvious that He was neither a lunatic nor a fiend: and consequently, however strange or terrifying or unlikely it may seem, I have to accept the view that He was and is God. [1]
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1. Lewis, C.S., Mere Christianity, MacMillan Publishing Company, New York USA, 1960, Pages 55-56
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