Mere Christianity (C. S. Lewis Signature Classic)

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If you want this same validation, you can either talk to a Christian who knows the facts (as I did), or read something like what Lewis has presented. Lewis, arguing that Jesus was claiming to be God, uses logic to advance three possibilities: either he really was God, was deliberately lying, or was not God but thought himself to be (which would make him delusional and likely insane). The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single organism-for that is what the words 'one flesh' would be in modern English.

This is a dramatic, vivid account of a former atheist's realization that God is real and that you can know Him in a personal way. The chat fizzled out, as these things so often do; I think many struggled, not with the ideas but with the language, finding it dated and inaccessible.He also admitted that since he was a bachelor, he felt not in the right position to advice about marriage. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The religious worldview holds that there's some sort of being, or force out there that created everything like matter, with a purpose.

Lewis points out that earthly experience does not satisfy the human craving for "joy" and that only God could fit the bill; humans cannot know to yearn for something if it does not exist. By breaking down and admitting our brokenness, we become whole by our acceptance of him who made all things. For many today, there is doubt about the effectiveness of family, real social interaction, the reality of history and the possibility of real power being humble. He never felt the obligation to discuss alternatives (unless you count his saying materialism is everything at random is another “explanation” of something).But taking the race as a whole, they thought that the human idea of decent behaviour was obvious to everyone. If we did… surely we would all agree that if anyone deserved the death penalty, then these filthy quislings did? It is simply unfair to expect Lewis to engage here with detailed philosophical debates, when these would clearly turn his brisk, highly readable book into a quagmire of fine philosophical distinctions. However, if you are looking for the facts about real Christianity (not as a religion, but as a relationship) then you can't do much better than Lewis.