Wow.
Run away or toward the hissing sound.
My favorite book on Christianity (other than the Bible). I re-read it at least once a year and never fail to gain new insight.
"Mere Christianity" is one of the greatest apologetics for Christianity there is. When I was first coming to know Jesus several years ago, my wife (girlfriend back then) gave me "Mere Christianity" to read. I was blown away. Lewis has a relentless, steady, plodding, hammering way of making his points, and it leaves them irrefutable.
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One of my favorite authors, and one of my favorite passages. TKS for posting!
Someone should send this passage to Bill O'Reilly. He's always talking about how he regards Jesus as "a great philosopher", and how Christmas, the federal holiday, is meant to commemorate Jesus, "the great philosopher". Sorry Bill....
Thanks for sharing this; I get the feeling I'd really enjoy the book.
This was one of my favorite passages in Mere Christianity. The concept that you had to agree that Jesus was God or that he was a nutter had a great impact on me. I chose the former.
"God sent the human race what I call good dreams: I mean those queer stories scattered all through the heathen religions about a god who dies and comes to life again and, by his death, has somehow given new life to men."
Uh-uh. God didn't send those notions of false gods.
"MERRY CHRISTMAS!!"
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I remember the feeling of blunt force trauma when I read these words the first time. The man is right and I was a fool.
My personal favorite
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold
This tale of two princesses - one beautiful and one unattractive - and of the struggle between sacred and profane love is Lewis’s reworking of the myth of Cupid and Psyche and one of his most enduring works.
Lewis was a true voice calling out to 20th century Christianity. He is my hero.
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"Either this man was, and is, the Son of God or else a madman or something worse."
He was and is the Son of God.
C.S. Lewis. The man had a mind as sharp as a razor.
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Jesus is king... thank God I found that out before my death. Thank God that Divine Grace is so powerful that it destroys all others.
Think an American paper would publish this during the "holiday" season?
BIG BUMP!