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Mere ChristianityC.S. Lewis
Book I Right and Wrong As A Clue To The Meaning
Of The Universe
Summaryof Chapters
4 - What Lies Behind the Law5 - We Have Cause to be Uneasy
A Logical and Rational Conversation
I Peter 3: 15
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I Peter 3:15
But in your heart set Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, keeping a clear conscience.
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Do you believein the existenceof a Moral Law?
No
Yes
Is there anythingor anyone
behind the Moral Law?
No
Yes
What Kind:A Force(Power)?
Yes
No
Are you trickingme with a
religious talk?
We are trying to findtruth and the meaning of
the universe.
Are youinterested?
Yes
No
A Force/Power is a sort of atame and convenient God .
An inconsistent Power
End of theStory
End of theStory
End of theStory
End of theStory
A God ?
No
Yes
No
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How can we find out more about the thing behind the moral law and
the meaning of the universe?
Looking into the The Universe He Made
Looking inside ourselves,where He wrote the moral laws
He is a great artist
He is quite merciless.The universe is
a very dangerous place.
But you cannot knowa man by looking at the house he built.
The Moral Law does not give us any grounds for thinking that God is “good”
in the sense of being soft and nice..The Moral Law is as hard as nails.If God is like the Moral Law, then
HE IS NOT SOFT.
Do you want to proceed?at your own
risk?
No
Yes
End of theStory
End of theStory
End of theStory
The Moral Law ells you to do the straight thing and it does not seem to care how painful, or dangerous, or difficult it is to do.
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Is He an ImpersonalAbsolute
Goodness ?
If the universe is not governed by an absolute goodness, then all our efforts are in the long run hopeless.
Yes
No
Absolute Goodness is either the great safety or the great danger - according to the way
you react to it. God is the only comfort and supreme terror
Yes
Have you brokenthe Moral Law?
Do you think you need Forgiveness?
No Yes
No exceptions, or allowancespermitted.
Is He a Personalabsolute
Goodness ?
Christianity tells how the demands of the Moral Law,which we cannot meet, have been met on our behalf, how
God Himself becomes man to save man from the disapproval of God.
End of theStory
Beginning of Chapter 1 of the Great Story ...Which goes on forever: in which every chapter is better
than the one before.
End of theStory
Do you want to find out more
about God
End of theStoryYes
No
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“My reason for going around in this way was that Christianity simply does not make sense until you have faced the sort of facts I have been describing.
Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel they need any forgiveness. It is after you have realized that there is a Moral Law, the the Power behind the the law, and that you have broken that law and put yourself wrong with the Power - it is after all this, and not a moment sooner, that Christianity begins to talk.
The Christian religion is, in the long run, a thing of unspeakable comfort. But it does not begin with comfort; it begins with dismay.
In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end. If you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth - only soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end despair.
All I am doing is to ask people to face the facts - to understand the questions which Christianity claims to answer.” C.S. Lewis****************************************************************************
I Peter 3:15But in your heart set Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, keeping a clear conscience.
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What Is Mere Christianity?
1 - Christianity is all about Jesus Christ.
2 - Jesus Christ is fully God; Jesus Christ is fully man.
3 - The goal of Christianity is to be conformed into the image of Jesus Christ.
4 - At the center of Christianity is the Church.
5 - At the heart of Christian discipleship is obedience.
“Not my will but thine be done.”
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