C.S. Lewis: from theism to Christianity
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C.S. Lewis: It must be understood that my conversion at that point was only to theism pure and simple. I knew nothing yet about the incarnation. The God to whom I surrendered was sheerly non-human.
C.S. Lewis: [Reading from Chesterton] A great man knows he is not God and the greater he is, the better he knows it. The gospels declare that this mysterious maker of the world has visited his world in person. The most that any religious prophet has said was that he was the true servant of such a being. But if the creator was present in the daily life of the Roman empire, that is something unlike anything else in nature. It is the one great startling statement that man has made since he spoke his first articulate word. It makes dust and nonsense of comparative religion.
C.S. Lewis: As I drew near to Christianity, I felt a resistance almost as strong as my previous resistance to theism. As strong but shorter lived for I understood it better. But each step, one had less chance to call one's soul one's own.
C.S. Lewis: What Tolkien showed me was this — that if I met the idea of sacrifice in a pagan story I didn't mind it at all — I was mysteriously moved by it. The reason was that in pagan stories I was prepared to feel the myth as profound. Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth.
C.S. Lewis: I know very well when but hardly how the final step was taken. I went with my brother to have a picnic at Whipsnade Zoo. We started in fog, but by the end of our journey the sun was shining. When we set out I did not believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and when we reached the zoo I did. I had not exactly spent the journey in thought. Nor in great emotion. It was more like when a man, after a long sleep, becomes aware that he is now awake.
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it's a really good book.
Well, a perfect God would not have anything to do with sin. He is the opposite of sin.
You would be kidding yourself if you thik that such a God would allow sinful man to live with Him forever. There is always a consequence for sin and someone has to pay for it. Thank God that Jesus did it.
God didn't create evil. Evil is just the absence of good; just like darkness is the absence of light.
You are right, however, about the part that He tested man. He gave man a free choice to obey (do good) or disobey (do evil). He would NEVER force Himself on us or make us love Him because that would simply not be love.
You cannot have light and darkness at the same time and the same place. The same way God cannot live with sinful people.
BY NATURE He hates evil and the consequence of evil is death. He cannot just sweep under the rug the wrong we have done. Someone has to pay for it. The only reason He forgives us is that someone (Jesus) had already paid the price for the evil we have done.
We forgive each other not because we are better, but because we know we are able to do the same mistakes.
Jesus is God.
Gen. 1:26 Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness
Gen. 3:22 Then the Lord God said, Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil
Bad example, but what do you think?
A: 2000 years of Christianity.
It does feel somewhat like waking up from a life-long slumber. I happened to be 23 years old when it happened. (This year.)
Don't be ashamed of Christ, for as he says, if you are, he shall also be ashamed of you when he comes to harvest us up at the end.
Many are simply afraid of accepting a higher power other than themself.
Life is our test. He returns.
Read a book from a former atheist Lee Strobel The Case for Jesus, that might help you find your way to the light of Jesus!
Sorry for the late reply btw, I've been busy participating in sodomy and other sinful acts.