Here’s some of the problem I’ve had with Lewis:
- Satanic Hollywood made box office productions out of both his novels and his life story, which they probably wouldn’t for a writer about true Christianity
- I’m pretty sure that my good friend’s tragic delusion involving thinking it was the Lord’s will that she patiently wait for years for a man who had tried to tell her their relationship was over could be partly blamed on her reading entirely too much C.S. Lewis. It completely addled her ability to understand God’s character and the way He operates.
Anyways...I’m conducting ongoing research at the moment by reading Mere Christianity. I’m on page 27 and, so far, still no mention of Christ - - just a lot of talk about Christians and the great “Guide.” But I did find a real gem, here:
This is how Luciferians talk.What is the problem? A universe that contains much that is obviously bad and apparently meaningless, but containing creatures like ourselves who know that it is bad and meaningless. There are only two views that face all the facts. One is the Christian view that this is a good world that has gone wrong, but still retains the memory of what it ought to have been. The other is the view called Dualism. Dualism means the belief that there are two equal and independent powers at the back of everything, one of them good and the other bad, and that this universe is the battlefield in which they fight out an endless war. I personally think that next to Christianity Dualism is the manliest and most sensible creed on the market. But it has a catch in it.
The two powers, or spirits, or gods—the good one and the bad one—are supposed to be quite independent. They both existed from all eternity. Neither of them made the other, neither of them has any more right than the other to call itself God. Each presumably thinks it is good and thinks the other bad. One of them likes hatred and cruelty, the other likes love and mercy, and each backs its own view. Now what do we mean when we call one of them the Good Power and the other the Bad Power? Either we are merely saying that we happen to prefer the one to the other—like preferring beer to cider—or else we are saying that, whatever the two powers think about it, and whichever we humans, at the moment,, happen to like, one of them is actually wrong, actually mistaken, in regarding itself as good. ~ Mere Christianity, pg 27
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