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Seeker47 said:
I am far from a classically trained scholar. I found "Psalms" difficult as Lewis did not "dumb down" some of his thoughts as much as he did in other books. He begins by urging us to consider the psalms as written, songs and poetry. Some were easier than others. (I probably need to go back and try the book again).
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Ah. That makes total sense. Yes, even when he does "dumb it down" I can still struggle to follow 😂
 
There was a time for his teaching, it should lead to relationship with the Savior and not merely an mental assent of His existence and an outward form of godliness.
blessings:)(y)
 
SilverBigBack said:
If my memory serves me correctly that was one of his leading points in Mere Christianity, in arguing the existence and Lordship of Jesus (when He claimed to be God, He was either blatantly lying, an insane madman, or telling the truth). But my memory is an unreliable servant. Either way it's a good foundational book to understanding the faith.
Sorry if I caused any confusion.
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Ahh, yes, he did. Thanks for clarifying.
 
“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell.

You must make your choice.

Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.” ― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
 
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SilverBigBack said:
If my memory serves me correctly that was one of his leading points in Mere Christianity, in arguing the existence and Lordship of Jesus (when He claimed to be God, He was either blatantly lying, an insane madman, or telling the truth). But my memory is an unreliable servant. Either way it's a good foundational book to understanding the faith.
Sorry if I caused any confusion.
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Seeker47 said:
I am far from a classically trained scholar. I found "Psalms" difficult as Lewis did not "dumb down" some of his thoughts as much as he did in other books. He begins by urging us to consider the psalms as written, songs and poetry. Some were easier than others. (I probably need to go back and try the book again).
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I have never read that book, but that makes sense. God made claims and assertions... And promises... That only makes sense if he is God.

If somebody believes these claims and assertions, and promises, and is still a half-hearted Christian, then he is either not paying attention or has not really thought this through yet.
 
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“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell.

You must make your choice.

Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.” ― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
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One of the most profound and beautiful things Lewis ever wrote. These words were a significant event in my early Christian walk
 
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Seeker47 said:
One of the most profound and beautiful things Lewis ever wrote. These words were a significant event in my early Christian walk
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Agreed :) I find Lewis so appealing because he treats the reasonable and the emotional man; the gospel is in, say, Narnia for children and picture-minded people as much as it is in Mere Christianity for logical and analytical people.
 
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