"What are we to make of Christ?" There is no question of what we can make of Him; it is entirely a question of what He intends to make of us. You must accept or reject the story.
The things He says are very different from what any other teacher has said. Others say, 'This is the truth about the Universe. This is the way you ought to go,' but He says, 'I am the Truth, and the Way, and the Life.' He says, 'No man can reach absolute reality, except through Me. Try to retain your own life and you will be inevitably ruined. Give yourself away and you will be saved.' He says, 'If you are ashamed of Me, if, when you hear this call, you turn the other way, I also will look the other way when I come again as God without disguise. If anything whatever is keeping you from God and from Me, whatever it is, throw it away. If it is your eye, pull it out. If it is your hand, cut it off. If you put yourself first you will be last. Come to Me everyone who is carrying a heavy load, I will set that right. Your sins, all of them, are wiped out. I can do that. I am Re-birth, I am Life. Eat Me, drink Me, I am your Food. And finally, do not be afraid, I have overcome the Universe.' That is the issue.
(page 160, "God in the Dock" by C. S. Lewis, Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1970)
To get an overview of the mind of the man who claims not to be a theologian but proudly proclaim he was a previous atheist who became a Christian, watch these:
C. S. Lewis Video1, Chronicles of Narnia, the Scriptural Parallel
C. S. Lewis Video2, Satan's Devices
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