the moral teaching of Jesus. Yet, he concluded that in this case Jesus was somehow mistaken. Although my respect for Lewis’s faith, intelligence, and grit is profound, I find his solution intrinsically flawed. He seems merely to have closed his eyes and ignored the contradiction inherent in his approach to this issue. In this approach, Lewis resembles millions of other Christians who live with a contradiction. They keep their faith and morals mostly intact, yet accept that the claims of Jesus were