"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. "

(C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, 1952)