His stance is of a moral law a rule about right and wrong commonly known to all human beings.

C s lewis mere christianity quotes background. At first perhaps you can understand what he is doing. Lewis desk in his house mike blyth flickr 11 there is no good trying to be more spiritual than god. Quite simply there was no mere christianity church indeed ker and i share the biographical distinction of reading and being inspired by lewis becoming anglican and then continuing the journey along to the catholic church. Book two of mere christianity is largely concerned with the christian definition of god the almighty being who creates the moral law as discussed in book one see above.

Millions of other people have also been greatly helped by his writings. In the radio talks and the derived book mere christianity he articulated the congruous tenets of christian faith. That is why he uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us. You knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised.

Quotes from mere christianity. Lewis almost 50 years ago. As a fairly new christian i was introduced to the great christian apologist c. God never meant man to be a purely spiritual creature.

Some absolute gems from the c. Along with his use of pithy and succinct language lewis was able to more nearly pertain and better appeal his subject to the commonly educated man who comprised the vast majority of his. God comes in to rebuild that house. Imagine yourself as a living house.

Lewis quote from mere christianity even in literature and art no man who bothers about originality will ever be original. In this quote lewis is making the distinction between feeling affectionately or fondly towards someone and what he defines as the christian understanding of love. Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual.

He is not only drawing a sharp distinction here between emotions and actions but is making the claim that emotions are rather irrelevant in god s eyes in comparison to our actions. It means killing part of yourself under going a kind of death. Repentance means unlearning all the self conceit and self will that we have been training ourselves into. In the preface to later editions of the book lewis described his intentions of avoiding contended theological doctrine focusing instead on foundational principles and applicable derivations.

Whereas if you simply try to tell the truth without caring twopence how often it has been told before you will nine times out of ten become original without ever having noticed it. Lewis narrates the book and spends most of the story defending the christian faith on an argument based on morality a point which persuaded him from atheism to christianity. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on.

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