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When I was a very new believer, I dabbled with the Jehovah's Witnesses a bit and attended some of their study groups. I never considered myself one, and I assumed they were just another denomination. One time I went to a JW study group and I quoted CS Lewis' "Mere Christianity." There was an audible gasp. An older lady looked at me like I had just snorted a line of cocaine in the middle of church. Another fellow leaned over to me and whispered, "We don't discuss CS Lewis here." "Uh... why not? He's considered one of the greatest theologians of the 20th century." "But he wasn't a Jehovah's Witness." "...and...?" Later that evening they also told that Jesus was merely an angel and the "sprit brother" of Lucifer. After that I was done with them.
Thank you for sharing that. I have known only a few JW’s and they were not admirable people, rather I found them arrogant and clickish and thought that spoke volumes about their version of Christianity.
Comfortable to remain stagnant while drawing from the illusion of "life" by groups that see themselves as gatekeeper of other's soul. Good on you. Thank you!
JWs are not Christians. For the simple reason that they do not accept Jesus as the son of God or his death and Resurrection as redemptive. They even altered the scripture. For example "John 1:1 [1]In the beginning was the Word: the Word was with God and the Word was God." John 1:1.This is altered in their book to read "In beginning was the Word: the Word was with God and the Word was a God. " A god"!!! So they don't believe in the unity of The Trinitarian god . ! They are not even a church but a corporate business.
Abe Lincoln was a once in a lifetime human being. So rare in heart, depth, humor, perception, intelligence, discretion, and most of all his deep and abiding faith in Jesus.
In the church, I worked hard attempting to "save" people and finally realized it was simple... just Love. Be Humble, Listen, Support, Share and Love as Jesus Christ Loved. Not - I luv this or that but rather I Love you because I see that you're hurting, struggling and desiring real Love and Jesus Christ. Now I work hard to follow God's Will and open myself up so God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit can flow through me. God bless you.
As one who has always ran from God, it's amazing how I'm always drawn back. Pull 1 string and it leads back to where one belongs. C S Lewis has always been able to reconcile both this world and God's world. I'm still working on it.
Lewis wasn't always able to reconcile both worlds. He was a staunch atheist for 2 decades. He outright admitted that he was reluctant to believe in God which is different from simply NOT believing in Him.
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@@NYCBGpsychotherapy claims no absolute source of morality, and is very subjective and personal in it's goals. For those looking for any absolute truth, therapy is not any help. Subjective truth teaches, "my truth is different from yours". In that perspective, "my morality is different from yours", as well.
For those who Know, no explanation or excuse is necessary, for those who don’t no explanation or excuse is Ever enough! Go back to your physical existence and leave the Spiritual to the Spiritual.
Your soul is being soothed by nonsense. The reality of no god, no heaven, and no afterlife is a hard thing for humans to acknowledge, but life is better faced with the truth, rather than with the fairy tales of religion.
This is the flavoured religion im a Christian ✝️ however cs Lewis's has been flavoured by his cynical retrospective atheist ⚛ ways he was a protestant turned die-hard atheist and cynic which meant he had a skeptical eye for things which meant his reconversion to the faith gave him a questioning rational state of mind
Much love Clive Staples Lewis. You're as much my teacher as any man who discipled me!!!🥲 I long for the eternal now, where I can sit down and speak with you and the other saints under God's adoring eyes 🥲
I’ve never heard of this man until I came hear and listened. Now I think he was truly remarkable. He would be pleased to know people are listening to this decades later.
@@mariel.6654Didn't Tolkien say that he despised allegories in all of its manifestations? He said he thinks people get "applicable" and "allegory" mixed up.
@@Gutslinger Interesting. I’m no expert on the depths of Tolkien’s thought, so had to look that up. I should have made English Lit my major in college I guess. 😄
I enjoy that after all these years of listening to CS Lewis, his unique way of looking at things and articulating his thoughts, that i am challenged to consider my thoughts and opinions still
"If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable. Think of it as a place of training and correction and it's not so bad". yeah buddy
Well if we continuously believe that the world is supposed to be easy and comfortable all the time then one will not be prepared for trials. It's not cruel and unusual for life to be a struggle at times. It's a part of being human. It's something that took me until my 40s to realize and had I understood this when I was younger things actually would have been easier for me because I would not have been trying to find comfort and escape from pain and trials. The comforts we seek often come with a price.
@@dystopian2153 Well said!! I think that this is the same conclusion that Dostoyevsky came to and he predicted the depravity that would ensue from atheist communist Marxism that was defined by atheism through its anti religious policies and death camps. This form of atheism, utilitarianism and pragmatism lead to the horrific deaths of 62 million innocent men, women and children. During the time of the iron curtain and in east Germany before the wall came down one out of every three people was a government informer. You either pretended that communism, utilitarianism and pragmatism was working or you were reported by informers to the state regime. The consequences of living under one of these regimes was that no one ever said what they meant because if they did the chances of KGB agents kicking down your front door during the middle of the night was extraordinarily high. History clearly demonstrates that utopian utilitarian, “egalitarian” societies don’t work . Hence the reference in the movie Matirx that human Utopias don’t work. One of the main characters agent Smith mentions that the first Matrix didn’t work and was a disaster because of this assumption that in order to survive all humans needed was total pleasure (Dopamine hits) and not virtues such as real goodness, real love, real bravery, empathy, altruism, that is free will and choice. Equally, think of all the heroes of social change, those heroes who stood up to racism, slavery and died fighting for human rights, the heroes of flight and space travel and aviation of the last century and in history, heroes such as Martin Luther King JR, Rosa Parks, William Wilberforce, Nelson Mandela, Mary Robinson, Buzz Aldrin, Amelia Earhart, the Wright brothers etc. Now imagine if we had the power to intervene and removed all the moral danger and natural danger from the world and from these heroes lives. In order to remove all moral evil from the world all you have to do is remove everyone’s free will. To remove natural danger all you have to do is remove all obstacles all challenges and make everything safe meaningless and purposeless. Some would argue pointless and lifeless. But without free will and meaning and purpose that is the risk of moral evil and natural evil non of these amazing people such as Martin Luther King JR, William Wilberforce or Buzz Aldrin and Amelia Earhart etc would have been the heroes of social reform and aviation and space travel that they are today and would have non of the virtues they had such as real courage, real bravery, real altruism, creativity, empathy, real love and imagination that our children and generations of children and adults have taken great inspiration from as there would be no such thing as bravery, courage, altruism, self sacrifice that is real love and real virtue with out real free will, real moral danger and natural danger. Similarly, the combined efforts of all these heroes creates a beautiful effect and a mythological status, a true myth in a sense in the collective consciousness and memory of humanity that is greater than the sum of each individual part that points to a reality a joy that we all yearn for that transcends the materialistic, selfish, self centred, narcissistic, nihilistic and fatalistic paradigm. So what would we expect to see if the qualitative subjective experience of reality and existence is true such as happiness, joy, beauty, bravery, altruism, empathy, morals, ethics, meaning, purpose and ultimately love, that is the belief in the fundamental nature of mind and consciousness/theism “that of which nothing greater can be conceived”/God and ultimately love is true. The answer is that we would expect to find some level of suffering from the moderate to the severe caused by free will and natural danger that we as humans would inevitably struggle to explain because we can not see the end of all things. But most of all we’d expect to see happiness, joy, beauty, bravery, goodness and love. In fact science and evolution demonstrates that this is what we do find. The belief in the irreducible and fundamental nature of mind and consciousness/theism/God has clearly not been debunked by the problem of suffering in the world as science and evolution demonstrates that the beauty, joy, happiness and goodness that most humans and animals experience over the whole course of their lives far outweighs the bad!! th-cam.com/video/g2S-oWzk-Ns/w-d-xo.html
This man changed my life in 1964. Thought I was an Anglican until 1998. Then I realized he was Orthodox in all but name, and I converted. He was my first spiritual guide, though I knew him only in his writings. He had died in 1963 - same day as John Kennedy. He always was quite self-effacing. A sign of holiness. Memory eternal, Jack.
The problem is, which church, which preacher? Because they are all humans and humans are very imperfect. I was listening to a very well dressed man, very intelligent gave a long sermon about how only a few will get into heaven, very few. Not sure I agree with this but what he said was very well spoken, then he got towards the end and said "In all the 6,000 years of human history" I think you can be a christian and still understand about evolution, we humans have been around in our present form for over 100,000 years, this is just a fact. He would tell you carbon dating is not accurate. Interpreting the bible to think we are only 6,000 years old is to me like a flat earther. just denying reality. Even C.S. didn't deny evolution, it can work just fine with Christianity.
@@fredgarv79 all I can say is there is a church and a bank on every corner, yet we have 40% poverty, malnutrition,crime up the wazoo while banks and churches get rich.
@@fredgarv79so you do realize genesis was created 6000 years ago and if you believe the Bible is the word of god and in that book that was created 6000 years ago it said gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the Earth. So it’s either the Bible is not telling the truth and man is correct or vise versa
@@fredgarv79 Read the works of physicist Dr. Gerold Schroeder (Genesis and the Big Bang is a good one to start with). He does a compelling job of reconciling the Biblical timeline with the observable based on time-space relativity and metric tensors. He was an atheist scientist who did not set out to prove any position but his research lead him back to the Genesis account.
Wow! I was staring at the screen for 13 minutes while listening before I saw the lion in the smoke. I was pondering how the artist 'over-did' it drawing the smoke and that it was much too busy to be realistic, lol. Very cool!
I often think of the Bible as a treasure beyond count. To be able to hold in one's hands the actual teachings of the one true Living God is a gift beyond comparison. It's astonishing to contemplate that you could buy a Bible for a couple of bucks at any used book store. Yet that one copy with a stained cover or dog-eared pages has more value in it than all the gold that has ever been mined & all the diamonds that were ever formed within the Earth.
I love CS Lewis. He helped me so much in my faith and understanding Theology of little better And I'm so glad to see that in the modern era that people still recognize the importance of CS Lewis and his writings
23:15 “If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.” Ha! This life is over in a flash, even if, like Lewis’ friend, you live to eighty-plus. Happiness has been oversold and over sought. Thank you for publishing this!
You have no soul. You are the soul. You (are the Soul) who have a body.
__CS Lewis__
The core of your existence is your soul. Your body is just a wrap of your soul. Don't abandon your spirit for the sake of your body. So as not to lose to you.
I offered my friend different reason Christians go to a place of worship. He saw it as flawed hypocrites that thought they were better than everyone else. I asked him “what if they knew they are flawed and they should go to publicly worship God…..they go because they need to go not because they feel they are better than non Christians.” I did qualify that of course. there are going to be tares among the wheat….people attending for social reasons. But the true Christians in those churches are going to services to worship the Lord, support the brothers, pool their offerings that after the bills are paid are used joyfully in the community, and kneel together to pray for those who are outside the fold. Probably praying for my friend and his family.
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@7:54 AND @8:10 good point about riches in general. Riches meaning popularity, luck, exciting career, contentment, etc. not just money in abundance. My brother and sisters are not Christians, and none of them have suffered as much as I have. Supposedly, Tolstoy became a Christian and he had become rich. He just felt his riches and achievements were ultimately empty.
I’ve never played that, but I had certainly planned to. I couldn’t seem to ever leave Skyrim! My son got me completely & absolutely addicted to it. It’s quite miraculous an intervention never took place...or is it?😉 I also thought it was actually C.S Lewis reading/narrating. 🤭
I'm not a Christian but I really enjoy these. The last answer was particularly good: "If you don't want God, why are you so anxious to want to want Him?" Sort of analogous to the Tower Rule in probability theory: you cant expect to expect something in the future, without already expecting it now.
A profound moment in my life was when I was stubbornly asked, why do you believe what you believe? When I dove into this question wholy, and honestly, I began to realize. That my faith was at the time, in my fellow man, and not God. For I believed what I was taught by my friends, family, and clergy. I, without criticism, blindly believed what I was being taught. And after all, I was seeking the truth. I built my house without even checking the ground of my foundation. I built the foundation their way, with their materials, without testing. I had just trusted them. I didn't check to see if I was being deceived. I didn't check to see if they were deceived, or had made any errors. After all why did they believe what they were teaching me? Because they, for the most part, believed and trusted those before them. After all, if you haven't tested the ground, then you don't no wether or not your house is being built in the right place. If you don't study the foundation you are going to build with. You don't know if it will stand, slip, or fall. Is your beliefs based on someone elses interpretations of Gods message to "you"? I found that truthfully, and honestly, mine was. I see that the majority, if they were honest, would have to admit the same. It will be sad in the end, when God says to them, I do not know you. I have to admit I don't have all the answers, by far. But, I am seeking them out. Where as God, according to the scriptures, rejects all 7 churches in the end. So you can follow your church, but don't be surprised where they lead you. I am seeking the truth, not a leader to blindly follow. After all we are responsible for our own souls, and will not be able to blame others. We're supposed to seek the truth for ourselves. So we won't be deceived.
erm.... keep in mind for most of human history we didnt have the ability to "investigate" the matter. Today i can actually look into the matter. I can see the evidence, research the Bible for errors, and come to the conclusion this MUST be the word of God. You have to remember for 1500 years people ONLY had what people told them when it came to the gospels. That didnt make their faith any less real. The ability to test our own faith is a luxury most of human history didnt have. Perhaps ive misunderstood your comment, but be careful with comments like this. What you are implying is very dangerous.
I'm not a biblical scholar. But if you can't honestly look at yourself and realize that you fall dismally short of God's grace, you're not being honest with yourself.
I was just a regular catholic until the moment I joined a spiritual class at church, and being introduced to CS Lewis spiritual quotes in the book we all learned together, from there my perspectives on faith and christianity itself totally changed
And, to found many things on youtube about him - really made my day. I learn more everyday to strengthen my spiritual views and being strong in adjusting my perspectives direction on which I should see this life through God's eyes as they way CS Lewis taught
Not an "imitation" of the life of Christ. A TRUE Christian in my way of living is someone who makes the teachings of Christ the foundation and sum of his life.
Question 6: "What is the Christian view of how materialists say everything is just the result of a cosmic accident?" Lewis: "If that's true, then everything is its own cosmic accident, including the materialists' claim that everything stems from one cosmic accident. How often are you accidentally right about something?" Gosh, my brain hurts as I try to accept that. The alternative is that everything is a single cosmic accident, but that seems nonsensical with how many moving parts there are. I might be missing the point, of course, with my chosen words and whatnot (maybe Lewis meant that the "stellar collision" was God's method of creating the solar system, and not accidental).
Thank you for your comment @HkFinn83 I’m wondering. Does that then mean you don’t believe that The Word is God’s and is God? [John 1:1] What is your relationship with scripture?
That´s an example of what the exercise of reason is meant for. I can only trully know that I know by humbly admiting also that I know that I know not. Reason is one among many faculties embbeded in our intelect, and intellect itself is also to be seen only as a part of our being. Access to being is the sine qua non condition and ground for thinking. We ought always keep that in mind as we think. What we make out of something in our thought is always less than the thing thouhgt, and that goes not only for God and revelation, as stressed by St. T. Aquinas, but to the smalest and humblest particle of dust. Woe unto us that we have followed Descartes, Kant and theirs disciples for so long.
@@atallguynh There is a multitudinary reality grounding of our being and that of the world´s, towards wich all things we presently tell, perceive, see, feel, will, imagine, suffer or act upon is just an infinitesimal and acidental aspect of in comparission. This is also highly acentuated by the fact that both those modes of being - that of the universe and that of ours - are subjected to the corporal conditions of existence called time and space, wich means, to be in a stream, as first put in the record by that old greek pal Heraclitus. If my access and participation in the being would have to relly on the exercise of my consciousness, wheter producing or not contents - as somehow implied by Descartes in his statement "cogito ergo sum" -, I would probably cease to exist as soon as I felt in a deep sleep devoid of dreams, wich of course, has not hold in the ordinary experience of the waking up man. The same would go for forgetfullness: as soon as I´d forget something (wheter produced or simply kept by conscience), it would simple vanish not only from consciousness, but from the world either. The world has a misterious hold on his own, so to say, while thoughts simply fly. The fact is the things remains more or less unchanged, just being virtualized in the sight of consciousnes to let other ones to become actual, or even, at times, to let the mind rest empty for awhile, as aimed by various meditation practices, as for instance, fishing does at times (lol). The acidental subsistence of the contents of consciousness depens equally on the acting and sufering consciousness (the attention) and the behavior of the "outer" reality, but that goes not to the substantial subsitence of our very soul (and that of the universe, also) from wich consciousness eventually and acidentally emerges by internal and external causes, such as, for example, a mood or an explosion may work on us, respectively. If we both depend on a consciousness to be, in full sense, this subsitence is to be found in an unchanging conscience diferent from those changing of our own (or that change element in the universe also), wich theologians usually predicate of God´s eternity, and that modern science predicates as an unexplicable colective byproduct of matter. Hope that the jargon I use is not to much opaque for you, but the subject of being and consciousness has been so much missrepresented and misunderstood for the last six centuries that we hardly can conceive the diferences between the notion of being and the notion of conscience properly these days. Nonetheless, I know all I said is also unilateral, and that you also may find some flaws in the preceeding reasons by paying close attention to reallity. And with this I end my invitation to the exercise of philosophy. God Bless.
All these points notwithstanding, would you agree that reason is veridical, that is, through reason (based on evidence) we can reach true conclusions whether the question is something of everyday life, in the physical sciences or indeed about spiritual matters ? It may be that there isn't enough evidence to support a chain of reasoning, and that's a different matter, but assuming the right evidence is there, would you agree that reason would lead to the truth, or is it your view that its scope of applicability is limited, say, to physical sciences ? I take the view that reason is valid in all domains, and assuming your assumptions and evidence are correct, barring a logical fallacy, conclusions reached by reason would be veridical.
@@danielfromca First question: Yes, agreed. Second question: Yes. Agreed. There seems not to be a single domain of human experience on wich one cannot profit by the use of reason.
klaus ehrhardt thanks for your reply. I think I may have misunderstood the meaning of your original comment as I thought you were discounting the value of reason as a way to understand the world. I don’t think reasoning is the only way to know something, but I do believe it’s a reliable way regardless of the domain to which it is applied..
His idea about people working jobs which do not encourage intellectual growth is interesting. In my opinion, our world today is filled with secular authority figures (media, govt. etc) who don’t teach us HOW to properly think for ourselves, they just teach us WHAT to think.
I try to understand CS Lewis. After many years, I do not understand him, but remain open-minded about him. I can say though, that, if a theologian is excessively difficult to understand, then, maybe, there are too many question marks. Ordinary people must be able to understand any potential explainer about matters, otherwise such men offer less than promised. But among all people, we should still try to find a basis of unity and common values.
@@lillybam6359 Suki James ~ . It must be nice to have a grandson. Thank you for a comment. May I inquire if you have ever read CSLewis' "The Screwtape Letters"?. Maybe when your grandson is 16 years old you might want him to read that.
Perhaps you should realise he lived in a different day and time. It’s like reading King James Version of the Bible and then doubting the Bible simply because you don’t understand it. Thankfully there are easier versions to read so we do not use that excuse anymore!
Beloved, I don't know you in person but God know you. God ministered to me in a revelation when I was on your profile to see things around you,I saw blessings but spiritual attacks holding onto them,in prayers,i saw a woman in the realm of the spirit monitoring and plotting delay in your life, with an evil mirror, and with motive to destroy. But as I speak to you now her time is up, Render hand of favour with Anything you can afford or give to these motherless foundation (Godstime MOTHERLESS FOUNDATION) in kebbi state Nigeria before 2DAYS with faith, as I Rise my hands towards heaven and pray for you they shall serve as point of contact wherever you are, you will receive double portion of grace to excel and total restoration of breakthrough in your life and in the life of your family. Ask for their acct details and help them call the MD in charge of the orphanage to get their details on (WhatsApp or call them now on +2348154975597) tell him I sent you. For it is not by might nor by in power but of the spirit saith the lord (zechariah 4:6). You shall testify to the Glory of God in your life. God bless you in Jesus name
Question 5 Many people feel resentful or unhappy because they think they are the target of an unjust fate; these feelings are stimulated by bereavement, illness, deranged domestic or working conditions, or the observation of suffering in others. What is the Christian view of this problem? C.S. Lewis: "The Christian view is that men are created to be in a certain relationship to God, if we are in that relation to him the right relation to one another will follow inevitably. Christ said it was difficult for the rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. Matthew chapter 19 verse 23; Mark chapter 10 verse 23; Luke chapter 18 verse 24, referring no doubt to riches in the ordinary sense, but I think it really covers riches in every sense: good fortune, health, popularity, and all the things the one wants to have, all these things tend just, as money tends, to make you feel independent of God, Because if you are happy already and contented in this life, you don't want to turn away to anything more and so you try to rest in a shadowy happiness as if it could last forever. But God wants to give you a real and eternal happiness, consequently, he may have to take all these riches away from you, if he doesn't you will go on relying on them. It sounds cruel, doesn't it? But I am beginning to find out that what people call the cruel doctrines, are really the kindest ones in the long run. I used to think it was a cruel doctrine to say that troubles and sorrows were punishment. But I find it in practice, that when you are in trouble, the moment you regard it as a punishment it becomes easier to bear. If you think of this world simply as a place intended for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable. Think of it as a place of training and correction and it's not so bad. Imagine a set of people all living in the same building half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is a prison. Those who think it a hotel might regard it as quite intolerable, and those who thought it a prison might decide that it was really surprisingly comfortable. So what seems the ugly doctrine, is the one that comforts and strengthens you in the end. The people that try to hold an optimistic view of this world will become pessimists; the people who hold a pretty stern view of it become optimistic
Have you ever played The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion? Well the narrator is the same person that voiced several of the characters in that game, most notably Jauffre, Grandmaster of the Blades.
There’s a small but meaningful typo (speako?) at 5:43. It does get made clear by what follows it, but when the narrator says that we share in God’s reason in only an, _“…imperfect and uninterrupted way.”,_ it should of course have been, _“…imperfect and_ *interrupted* _way”._
@@roonbare2769 I respect your opinion. Try having faith and not working towards the fulfillment of that faith for the benefit of others and your own soul, and see if Christ wouldn't tell you, "I know you not. You call me Lord, but have not shown me kindness when I was hungry, thirsty, sick and in prison."
@@omathitis8498 ah , you are clearly a "works" based believer . Did what Jesus accomplish on the cross work or not? According to your theology : no. If you attempt to be justified by your works , you have separated yourself from Christ , and fallen from grace. All our good works are but filthy rags ... I could go on, I'm sure we both have had this debate before . We can also assume neither of us was particularly moved by the other sides arguments.
@@roonbare2769 That is your opinion. I never said that faith is exempted or unnecessary. In fact, without faith, all works that we do are in vain. I am against lazy people going around accusing others of this and that, and has no love in their hearts. Jesus' faith is never an idle one, but is filled with good works. The disciples toiled up to their last breath to make sure that the Gospel is taught to everyone they are able to reach. The early Christians were martyred because they believed that the true followers of Christ are doers of their faith, active participants in making faith which is an immaterial reality be manifested in to something that can be experienced and seen in the material world that constantly seeks evidence of its existence. Also, all of Christ's commandments are of good works, "feed the hungry, do good to your enemies, pray for those who persecutes you, forgive those who sin against you..." If you do the good works that He taught us that we should do, will it still be as filthy rags in His sight? Lazy fellow, hiding behind faith but is not willing to lift a finger to help! You say that you have faith, but ridicules everyone else who works because of the faith in them that makes them industrious and fruitful in all of good works that God has taught us to do everyday. You may have faith, but you have no love. Because if you do have love, you will work.
One objection I have: Jesus believes there is a devil, spoke directly to him, was tempted by him in the desert. He called some people children of the devil. I don't see why a Christian would disagree with Christ.
@@pmp450 Grace is not cheap. Anyone who realizes their need for Christ and the depth of His sacrifice in taking the punishment for their sins the sins of the whole world, cannot view grace as cheap. Anyone who claims that we need to earn God's grace, which we cannot do, does not understand the magnitude of His grace. To accept God's grace is to walk in the freedom that He has given us, with the easy yoke and light burden that He provides.
@@pmp450 My thoughts on the subject: I've heard the term "cheap grace" applied by some Christians as a criticism of other Christians. I don't know if this is what you mean by it, but I've heard it used as a description of someone who claims to be a Christian but does not attend church every Sunday, read the bible every day, pray regularly, volunteer to usher or teach Sunday School, give 10% of their income to the church, make Saturday a holy day of rest, etc. Some use it in describing someone who gets saved and then continues to live a sinful lifestyle such as promiscuity, stealing, abusing drugs, beating their spouse, and the like. I don't think this is necessarily a sign of believing a doctrine of "cheap grace." It may be a sign that the person did not surrender to Christ and accept His free gift of salvation. It may be that the person is truly saved but is a new Christian, and the behavior will change as the person grows in a relationship with Christ and digs into scripture and applies it to his or her life. I believe that God gives each of us a new heart when we accept Him as Lord and Savior, and from then on, we cannot be comfortable with our sinful behavior because our new hearts want what is good in God's eyes. We don't stop sinning instantly upon being saved, but as we continue to live in Christ and have Christ living in us, we are conformed more and more to His likeness. Our appetites for sin decrease as they are displaced by our desire for more of God. We will never be perfect, but we are made into new creations by Christ. Once saved, we cannot continue to ignore our sinful behavior, issues of sin must be addressed. I have seen how people make different choices after being rescued from the power of sin by Jesus. They seem to have new eyes to see some of their habitual behavior, that was once normal and acceptable to them, as a problem. It seems like God brings one issue to light and deals with it, then brings another issue to light and deals with it, and so on. He doesn't leave us where we are, but it starts with a new heart, adoption as now one of His children, and continues with the work of the Holy Spirit, His Word, and our growing understanding of Who He is and what He wants from us. Our behavior is a result of the change within us. To start with behavior, and expect to earn God's grace by our obedience, is to begin a losing battle. We cannot behave on our own power. We cannot earn His grace. The whole point of grace is that it is unmerited favor. God's grace shown to us is a part of His sacrificial love. It's free. It's not cheap. We cannot do anything to earn it. It is a free and invaluable gift.
@@JB--- Oh you are SO right! Amen, sister? (brother?). Grace is part of God, a gift we receive because without it we can not begin the journey, as you so readily described, to our salvation. Complete surrender to God's will is rarely, if ever, instantaneous. It takes time. Our sinful nature is not easily overcome just by wanting it. It must be overcome by allowing God's Grace to work it's way into our hearts, our minds and our lives. Step by step, sin by sin God's grace and mercy lets the knots of sin unravel from our brains and minds and hearts until we can see clearly what "His" (and I use quotes here because the thought of a gendered God is a bit too old fashioned, even for me) will is for our lives. I commend you for hitting the proverbial nail on the head. I could not have said it better. Nor do I think Lewis could have either. Bravo!
There is 4 questions to choosing any religion in life. 1) Origin …. Where did it come from? who founded it? is there proof for its existence? 2) meaning… Why are we here? what is our purpose? 3) morality… is it moral? Does it teach you to lie? Does it teach you to still? Are the teachings mean evil nice? 4) destiny….. where will you end up? Do your good works have to outweigh your bad? Do you know you’re going to heaven? If you honestly answer all four of these questions you will find that Christianity is the only religion in the world that will answer all of these questions in correspondence to one another and with truth.
@@charlesday3090 You brain 🧠 washed not a such thing Christianity was built by the devil archangels. God knows there not a such thing. Look there were no letter J in this time LMAO look it up. There was no English language either look it up. You answered your own questions what's your answers there's not a such thing as religion with God. People been idolizing false prophets and if you serve Jesus you're serving his false prophet Muslims the same thing there's only one true God that's the ultimate creator there is not a such thing as religion when he built this world so don't sit here and tell me God came up with Christianity or Muslims God created everything but religion
When I was a very new believer, I dabbled with the Jehovah's Witnesses a bit and attended some of their study groups. I never considered myself one, and I assumed they were just another denomination.
One time I went to a JW study group and I quoted CS Lewis' "Mere Christianity." There was an audible gasp. An older lady looked at me like I had just snorted a line of cocaine in the middle of church. Another fellow leaned over to me and whispered, "We don't discuss CS Lewis here."
"Uh... why not? He's considered one of the greatest theologians of the 20th century."
"But he wasn't a Jehovah's Witness."
"...and...?"
Later that evening they also told that Jesus was merely an angel and the "sprit brother" of Lucifer. After that I was done with them.
It’s very sad how many people are deceived by partial truth- always take the whole Bible and nothing else
Praise the Lord you were informed enough and didn’t get sucked in.
Thank you for sharing that. I have known only a few JW’s and they were not admirable people, rather I found them arrogant and clickish and thought that spoke volumes about their version of Christianity.
Comfortable to remain stagnant while drawing from the illusion of "life" by groups that see themselves as gatekeeper of other's soul. Good on you. Thank you!
JWs are not Christians. For the simple reason that they do not accept Jesus as the son of God or his death and Resurrection as redemptive. They even altered the scripture. For example "John 1:1
[1]In the beginning was the Word: the Word was with God and the Word was God." John 1:1.This is
altered in their book to read "In beginning was the Word: the Word was with God and the Word was a God. " A god"!!!
So they don't believe in the unity of The Trinitarian god . !
They are not even a church but a corporate business.
"'Many a times I was driven on to my knees in PRAYER by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go'" (Abraham Lincoln )
Great quote, sometimes I think Lincoln and Lewis were related and God gave them special gifts that seem similar and used them for our good
Abe Lincoln was a once in a lifetime human being. So rare in heart, depth, humor, perception, intelligence, discretion, and most of all his deep and abiding faith in Jesus.
Kingsley Perera, thank you for that quote.
@@kathyhollenbach7413 Welcome & God bless. We need many more LINCOKNS AS PRESIDENTS IN U.S
The original quote doesn't have "in prayer".
“Love is not an affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good.” 2:39
In the church, I worked hard attempting to "save" people and finally realized it was simple... just Love. Be Humble, Listen, Support, Share and Love as Jesus Christ Loved. Not - I luv this or that but rather I Love you because I see that you're hurting, struggling and desiring real Love and Jesus Christ. Now I work hard to follow God's Will and open myself up so God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit can flow through me. God bless you.
@Joshua Simmons Thank you for saying thank you but I'm just a vessel. Jesus Christ shows us the way.
Excellent comment here
What is "love"?
@@doc2590 love is that thing between every caring mother and every child, it is that whitch all of humanity desperatly seeks when it is lost.
@@pa4765 you got it..... if "you" even 3xist enymore at all. It's ironic, even through this device I feel you have died, and only Love remains.
As one who has always ran from God, it's amazing how I'm always drawn back. Pull 1 string and it leads back to where one belongs. C S Lewis has always been able to reconcile both this world and God's world. I'm still working on it.
Lewis wasn't always able to reconcile both worlds. He was a staunch atheist for 2 decades. He outright admitted that he was reluctant to believe in God which is different from simply NOT believing in Him.
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don't keep delaying God!
With some good therapy this being "drawn back" to god can be cured.
@@NYCBGpsychotherapy claims no absolute source of morality, and is very subjective and personal in it's goals. For those looking for any absolute truth, therapy is not any help. Subjective truth teaches, "my truth is different from yours". In that perspective, "my morality is different from yours", as well.
This is like listening to a very kind, very wise old man. So nourishing to my soul and spirit.
Dont be gullible
He believes order and fine tuning happened on its own and the universe came out knower. I guess if that nourishing for your soul alrighty then.
For those who Know, no explanation or excuse is necessary, for those who don’t no explanation or excuse is Ever enough! Go back to your physical existence and leave the Spiritual to the Spiritual.
Your soul is being soothed by nonsense. The reality of no god, no heaven, and no afterlife is a hard thing for humans to acknowledge, but life is better faced with the truth, rather than with the fairy tales of religion.
This is the flavoured religion im a Christian ✝️ however cs Lewis's has been flavoured by his cynical retrospective atheist ⚛ ways he was a protestant turned die-hard atheist and cynic which meant he had a skeptical eye for things which meant his reconversion to the faith gave him a questioning rational state of mind
We need more thinkers & speakers like C.S.Lewis!
His answers require so much thought but so much comfort when drawing a conclusion. Thank God for C. S. Lewis.
Thank you, and thank YOU Lord Jesus, for our ability to seek after YOU ❤💖💛🌅🌄
Much love Clive Staples Lewis. You're as much my teacher as any man who discipled me!!!🥲 I long for the eternal now, where I can sit down and speak with you and the other saints under God's adoring eyes 🥲
CS Lewis was one of the greatest Christian thinkers of all time
Well said - "Christian thinkers". He most certainly was not one of the greatest thinkers of all time.
And also one of the greatest bloviators.
@@NYCBG I disagree with you
@@hellennkani2406 How dare you!
@@NYCBG That’s it, you are under arrest! 👮♀️
I’ve never heard of this man until I came hear and listened. Now I think he was truly remarkable. He would be pleased to know people are listening to this decades later.
Ever heard of the Chronicles of Narnia?
True. I am lucky to found in during my spiritual journey
Glad you found CS Lewis, Lisa. He and Tolkien are the greatest writers of allegory revealing spiritual truth. 🙏❤️
@@mariel.6654Didn't Tolkien say that he despised allegories in all of its manifestations?
He said he thinks people get "applicable" and "allegory" mixed up.
@@Gutslinger Interesting. I’m no expert on the depths of Tolkien’s thought, so had to look that up. I should have made English Lit my major in college I guess. 😄
I enjoy that after all these years of listening to CS Lewis, his unique way of looking at things and articulating his thoughts, that i am challenged to consider my thoughts and opinions still
"If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable. Think of it as a place of training and correction and it's not so bad". yeah buddy
Well if we continuously believe that the world is supposed to be easy and comfortable all the time then one will not be prepared for trials. It's not cruel and unusual for life to be a struggle at times. It's a part of being human. It's something that took me until my 40s to realize and had I understood this when I was younger things actually would have been easier for me because I would not have been trying to find comfort and escape from pain and trials. The comforts we seek often come with a price.
My man.
@@dystopian2153 Amen
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Well said!! I think that this is the same conclusion that Dostoyevsky came to and he predicted the depravity that would ensue from atheist communist Marxism that was defined by atheism through its anti religious policies and death camps. This form of atheism, utilitarianism and pragmatism lead to the horrific deaths of 62 million innocent men, women and children.
During the time of the iron curtain and in east Germany before the wall came down one out of every three people was a government informer. You either pretended that communism, utilitarianism and pragmatism was working or you were reported by informers to the state regime. The consequences of living under one of these regimes was that no one ever said what they meant because if they did the chances of KGB agents kicking down your front door during the middle of the night was extraordinarily high. History clearly demonstrates that utopian utilitarian, “egalitarian” societies don’t work . Hence the reference in the movie Matirx that human Utopias don’t work. One of the main characters agent Smith mentions that the first Matrix didn’t work and was a disaster because of this assumption that in order to survive all humans needed was total pleasure (Dopamine hits) and not virtues such as real goodness, real love, real bravery, empathy, altruism, that is free will and choice.
Equally, think of all the heroes of social change, those heroes who stood up to racism, slavery and died fighting for human rights, the heroes of flight and space travel and aviation of the last century and in history, heroes such as Martin Luther King JR, Rosa Parks, William Wilberforce, Nelson Mandela, Mary Robinson, Buzz Aldrin, Amelia Earhart, the Wright brothers etc.
Now imagine if we had the power to intervene and removed all the moral danger and natural danger from the world and from these heroes lives. In order to remove all moral evil from the world all you have to do is remove everyone’s free will. To remove natural danger all you have to do is remove all obstacles all challenges and make everything safe meaningless and purposeless. Some would argue pointless and lifeless. But without free will and meaning and purpose that is the risk of moral evil and natural evil non of these amazing people such as Martin Luther King JR, William Wilberforce or Buzz Aldrin and Amelia Earhart etc would have been the heroes of social reform and aviation and space travel that they are today and would have non of the virtues they had such as real courage, real bravery, real altruism, creativity, empathy, real love and imagination that our children and generations of children and adults have taken great inspiration from as there would be no such thing as bravery, courage, altruism, self sacrifice that is real love and real virtue with out real free will, real moral danger and natural danger. Similarly, the combined efforts of all these heroes creates a beautiful effect and a mythological status, a true myth in a sense in the collective consciousness and memory of humanity that is greater than the sum of each individual part that points to a reality a joy that we all yearn for that transcends the materialistic, selfish, self centred, narcissistic, nihilistic and fatalistic paradigm.
So what would we expect to see if the qualitative subjective experience of reality and existence is true such as happiness, joy, beauty, bravery, altruism, empathy, morals, ethics, meaning, purpose and ultimately love, that is the belief in the fundamental nature of mind and consciousness/theism “that of which nothing greater can be conceived”/God and ultimately love is true. The answer is that we would expect to find some level of suffering from the moderate to the severe caused by free will and natural danger that we as humans would inevitably struggle to explain because we can not see the end of all things. But most of all we’d expect to see happiness, joy, beauty, bravery, goodness and love. In fact science and evolution demonstrates that this is what we do find. The belief in the irreducible and fundamental nature of mind and consciousness/theism/God has clearly not been debunked by the problem of suffering in the world as science and evolution demonstrates that the beauty, joy, happiness and goodness that most humans and animals experience over the whole course of their lives far outweighs the bad!!
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I think Ralph cosham was the best narrator of Lewis work,his voice just seems to give it that correct texture
“correct texture” is the perfect description of his voice lol
Nuance
I find the words of Lewis as relevant today as they where when he said them, truth is truth, it never can change.
This man changed my life in 2010. Thanks CS... love you, dude.
you made me laugh there ragin, dude and a laugh is worth a lot
This man changed my life in 1964. Thought I was an Anglican until 1998. Then I realized he was Orthodox in all but name, and I converted. He was my first spiritual guide, though I knew him only in his writings. He had died in 1963 - same day as John Kennedy. He always was quite self-effacing. A sign of holiness. Memory eternal, Jack.
You’re welcome 😊
“I found going to church gets one out of one’s solitary conceit.” ~C.S. Lewis
Churches are now just comedy clubs minus the cursing.
The problem is, which church, which preacher? Because they are all humans and humans are very imperfect. I was listening to a very well dressed man, very intelligent gave a long sermon about how only a few will get into heaven, very few. Not sure I agree with this but what he said was very well spoken, then he got towards the end and said "In all the 6,000 years of human history" I think you can be a christian and still understand about evolution, we humans have been around in our present form for over 100,000 years, this is just a fact. He would tell you carbon dating is not accurate. Interpreting the bible to think we are only 6,000 years old is to me like a flat earther. just denying reality. Even C.S. didn't deny evolution, it can work just fine with Christianity.
@@fredgarv79 all I can say is there is a church and a bank on every corner, yet we have 40% poverty, malnutrition,crime up the wazoo while banks and churches get rich.
@@fredgarv79so you do realize genesis was created 6000 years ago and if you believe the Bible is the word of god and in that book that was created 6000 years ago it said gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the Earth. So it’s either the Bible is not telling the truth and man is correct or vise versa
@@fredgarv79 Read the works of physicist Dr. Gerold Schroeder (Genesis and the Big Bang is a good one to start with). He does a compelling job of reconciling the Biblical timeline with the observable based on time-space relativity and metric tensors. He was an atheist scientist who did not set out to prove any position but his research lead him back to the Genesis account.
Wow! I was staring at the screen for 13 minutes while listening before I saw the lion in the smoke. I was pondering how the artist 'over-did' it drawing the smoke and that it was much too busy to be realistic, lol. Very cool!
Cool looking! Wonder what he's smoking?
The Central Character in CS Lewis' childhood classic "The Chronicles of Narnia" was a lion called Aslan. He was clearly a Christ like figure.
Yeah me too. Awesome Lion.
@@a.d.marshall2748 Your lack of intelligence is both amusing and appalling, which is odd to say the least.
looks more like a hound than a lion .
Amazing grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me…. TY Jesus.
This mans wisdom is a timeless treasure like my best friend who has taught me about Giving and Forgiveness in the Ways of Yahshua. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
he is an wiccian so I am confused on your statement
I often think of the Bible as a treasure beyond count. To be able to hold in one's hands the actual teachings of the one true Living God is a gift beyond comparison. It's astonishing to contemplate that you could buy a Bible for a couple of bucks at any used book store. Yet that one copy with a stained cover or dog-eared pages has more value in it than all the gold that has ever been mined & all the diamonds that were ever formed within the Earth.
@@ColoradoN8CS don’t talk rubbish, Nathaniel.
I love CS Lewis. He helped me so much in my faith and understanding Theology of little better
And I'm so glad to see that in the modern era that people still recognize the importance of CS Lewis and his writings
Before CS was a believer he was many other things , an atheist and an occultist , but God sought him and redeemed him. I can say the same for myself
Hearing this perfect essay read by the voice actor of Jauffrey from Oblivion was a meeting of Heaven and Earth
Ah! A fellow (or lady) player of The Elder Scrolls? I recognized the voice immediately, it is so distinctive.
The Amu-let of Kings
23:15
“If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.”
Ha! This life is over in a flash, even if, like Lewis’ friend, you live to eighty-plus. Happiness has been oversold and over sought.
Thank you for publishing this!
I was so glad to find the C s Lewis talks. I read his books many years ago. In this new doodle form they hit me again with their relevance and truth.
You have no soul.
You are the soul.
You (are the Soul) who have a body.
__CS Lewis__
The core of your existence is your soul.
Your body is just a wrap of your soul.
Don't abandon your spirit for the sake of your body.
So as not to lose to you.
I offered my friend different reason Christians go to a place of worship. He saw it as flawed hypocrites that thought they were better than everyone else. I asked him “what if they knew they are flawed and they should go to publicly worship God…..they go because they need to go not because they feel they are better than non Christians.”
I did qualify that of course. there are going to be tares among the wheat….people attending for social reasons. But the true Christians in those churches are going to services to worship the Lord, support the brothers, pool their offerings that after the bills are paid are used joyfully in the community, and kneel together to pray for those who are outside the fold. Probably praying for my friend and his family.
C.S. Lewis was an Atheist and eventually became a Believer in Jesus Christ through God's, Grace, Mercy, Forgiveness through the Holy Spirit.
And a bit of Tolkien's fairytales.
I always want more of this, never seems enough.
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I wonder sometimes if listening to CS Lewis for me is like listening to Solomon for the people of that day.
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@7:54 AND @8:10 good point about riches in general. Riches meaning popularity, luck, exciting career, contentment, etc. not just money in abundance. My brother and sisters are not Christians, and none of them have suffered as much as I have. Supposedly, Tolstoy became a Christian and he had become rich. He just felt his riches and achievements were ultimately empty.
Thank you so much for putting these online for us to avail of. Happy New Year, and God bless.
Thats the voice actor off the elderscrolls obivion. He played jauffre. Id recognize his voice anywhere
As soon as I heard him I thought “C.S. Lewis sounds an awful lot like Jauffre”
That’s cool I didn’t know that
I’ve never played that, but I had certainly planned to. I couldn’t seem to ever leave Skyrim! My son got me completely & absolutely addicted to it. It’s quite miraculous an intervention never took place...or is it?😉 I also thought it was actually C.S Lewis reading/narrating. 🤭
@@lillybam6359 because Mayweather could be making a mockery of boxing.
I hear it
Wonderful
Thanks
Life is temporary - a lovely “prison”. Eternity without Jesus = hell.
A very good commentary. I see a couple of things differently but the Christian morals are excellent and his thoughts on these things are spot on.
Such intelligence. It's one thing to quote scripture. It's another to interpret the writing into a system of belief. Amazing man.
"...and then you realize that you aren't fit to clean those boots." Wow. That hit me hard for some reason.
I'm not a Christian but I really enjoy these. The last answer was particularly good: "If you don't want God, why are you so anxious to want to want Him?"
Sort of analogous to the Tower Rule in probability theory: you cant expect to expect something in the future, without already expecting it now.
We call it faith.
That’s good that you’re enjoying these videos. I believe that it’s God starting to open your heart little by little.
A profound moment in my life was when I was stubbornly asked, why do you believe what you believe? When I dove into this question wholy, and honestly, I began to realize. That my faith was at the time, in my fellow man, and not God. For I believed what I was taught by my friends, family, and clergy. I, without criticism, blindly believed what I was being taught. And after all, I was seeking the truth. I built my house without even checking the ground of my foundation. I built the foundation their way, with their materials, without testing. I had just trusted them. I didn't check to see if I was being deceived. I didn't check to see if they were deceived, or had made any errors. After all why did they believe what they were teaching me? Because they, for the most part, believed and trusted those before them. After all, if you haven't tested the ground, then you don't no wether or not your house is being built in the right place. If you don't study the foundation you are going to build with. You don't know if it will stand, slip, or fall. Is your beliefs based on someone elses interpretations of Gods message to "you"? I found that truthfully, and honestly, mine was. I see that the majority, if they were honest, would have to admit the same. It will be sad in the end, when God says to them, I do not know you. I have to admit I don't have all the answers, by far. But, I am seeking them out. Where as God, according to the scriptures, rejects all 7 churches in the end. So you can follow your church, but don't be surprised where they lead you. I am seeking the truth, not a leader to blindly follow. After all we are responsible for our own souls, and will not be able to blame others. We're supposed to seek the truth for ourselves. So we won't be deceived.
erm.... keep in mind for most of human history we didnt have the ability to "investigate" the matter. Today i can actually look into the matter. I can see the evidence, research the Bible for errors, and come to the conclusion this MUST be the word of God. You have to remember for 1500 years people ONLY had what people told them when it came to the gospels. That didnt make their faith any less real. The ability to test our own faith is a luxury most of human history didnt have. Perhaps ive misunderstood your comment, but be careful with comments like this. What you are implying is very dangerous.
I'm not a biblical scholar. But if you can't honestly look at yourself and realize that you fall dismally short of God's grace, you're not being honest with yourself.
Generally, well said. I sure fall short. Hopefully you were speaking to us all in general. And you are so very right.
@@j.t.harrison3203 its that exact process that begins our relationship and dependency on God.
Encouraging and uplifting. Thank you for helping my walk with Yeshua
I was just a regular catholic until the moment I joined a spiritual class at church, and being introduced to CS Lewis spiritual quotes in the book we all learned together, from there my perspectives on faith and christianity itself totally changed
And, to found many things on youtube about him - really made my day. I learn more everyday to strengthen my spiritual views and being strong in adjusting my perspectives direction on which I should see this life through God's eyes as they way CS Lewis taught
CS Lewis is a very wise and intelligent man ever placed on earth.
I thought CS Lewis was catholic
Not an "imitation" of the life of Christ. A TRUE Christian in my way of living is someone who makes the teachings of Christ the foundation and sum of his life.
Brilliant and humble man.
Needed this. Thank you!
Your voice is very nice to listen to! 🤗
I was listening to John Lennox and I heard about C.S. Lewis.! And I heard about John Lennox listening to another Christian.!
Question 6: "What is the Christian view of how materialists say everything is just the result of a cosmic accident?"
Lewis: "If that's true, then everything is its own cosmic accident, including the materialists' claim that everything stems from one cosmic accident. How often are you accidentally right about something?"
Gosh, my brain hurts as I try to accept that. The alternative is that everything is a single cosmic accident, but that seems nonsensical with how many moving parts there are. I might be missing the point, of course, with my chosen words and whatnot (maybe Lewis meant that the "stellar collision" was God's method of creating the solar system, and not accidental).
Very well thought out open and tolerant. Real Christian attitude
The answer for question six is awesome!
18:37-18:41, How is it possible to be a Christian without believing in devils? MATTHEW 25:41, JAMES 2:19. Just two examples!
That’s a very modern evangelical fundamentalist view. Most Christians who have ever lived did not see scripture as dictated by god.
Thank you for your comment @HkFinn83
I’m wondering. Does that then mean you don’t believe that The Word is God’s and is God? [John 1:1]
What is your relationship with scripture?
That´s an example of what the exercise of reason is meant for. I can only trully know that I know by humbly admiting also that I know that I know not. Reason is one among many faculties embbeded in our intelect, and intellect itself is also to be seen only as a part of our being. Access to being is the sine qua non condition and ground for thinking. We ought always keep that in mind as we think. What we make out of something in our thought is always less than the thing thouhgt, and that goes not only for God and revelation, as stressed by St. T. Aquinas, but to the smalest and humblest particle of dust. Woe unto us that we have followed Descartes, Kant and theirs disciples for so long.
By "access to being" do you mean something like consciousness?
@@atallguynh There is a multitudinary reality grounding of our being and that of the world´s, towards wich all things we presently tell, perceive, see, feel, will, imagine, suffer or act upon is just an infinitesimal and acidental aspect of in comparission. This is also highly acentuated by the fact that both those modes of being - that of the universe and that of ours - are subjected to the corporal conditions of existence called time and space, wich means, to be in a stream, as first put in the record by that old greek pal Heraclitus. If my access and participation in the being would have to relly on the exercise of my consciousness, wheter producing or not contents - as somehow implied by Descartes in his statement "cogito ergo sum" -, I would probably cease to exist as soon as I felt in a deep sleep devoid of dreams, wich of course, has not hold in the ordinary experience of the waking up man. The same would go for forgetfullness: as soon as I´d forget something (wheter produced or simply kept by conscience), it would simple vanish not only from consciousness, but from the world either. The world has a misterious hold on his own, so to say, while thoughts simply fly. The fact is the things remains more or less unchanged, just being virtualized in the sight of consciousnes to let other ones to become actual, or even, at times, to let the mind rest empty for awhile, as aimed by various meditation practices, as for instance, fishing does at times (lol). The acidental subsistence of the contents of consciousness depens equally on the acting and sufering consciousness (the attention) and the behavior of the "outer" reality, but that goes not to the substantial subsitence of our very soul (and that of the universe, also) from wich consciousness eventually and acidentally emerges by internal and external causes, such as, for example, a mood or an explosion may work on us, respectively. If we both depend on a consciousness to be, in full sense, this subsitence is to be found in an unchanging conscience diferent from those changing of our own (or that change element in the universe also), wich theologians usually predicate of God´s eternity, and that modern science predicates as an unexplicable colective byproduct of matter. Hope that the jargon I use is not to much opaque for you, but the subject of being and consciousness has been so much missrepresented and misunderstood for the last six centuries that we hardly can conceive the diferences between the notion of being and the notion of conscience properly these days. Nonetheless, I know all I said is also unilateral, and that you also may find some flaws in the preceeding reasons by paying close attention to reallity. And with this I end my invitation to the exercise of philosophy. God Bless.
All these points notwithstanding, would you agree that reason is veridical, that is, through reason (based on evidence) we can reach true conclusions whether the question is something of everyday life, in the physical sciences or indeed about spiritual matters ? It may be that there isn't enough evidence to support a chain of reasoning, and that's a different matter, but assuming the right evidence is there, would you agree that reason would lead to the truth, or is it your view that its scope of applicability is limited, say, to physical sciences ? I take the view that reason is valid in all domains, and assuming your assumptions and evidence are correct, barring a logical fallacy, conclusions reached by reason would be veridical.
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First question: Yes, agreed.
Second question: Yes. Agreed. There seems not to be a single domain of human experience on wich one cannot profit by the use of reason.
klaus ehrhardt thanks for your reply. I think I may have misunderstood the meaning of your original comment as I thought you were discounting the value of reason as a way to understand the world. I don’t think reasoning is the only way to know something, but I do believe it’s a reliable way regardless of the domain to which it is applied..
These opinions are from when he was a new Christian. They changed in important ways as he crew.
Such an illuminating talk on Christianity
His works inspired me to turn to God for the first time.
His idea about people working jobs which do not encourage intellectual growth is interesting. In my opinion, our world today is filled with secular authority figures (media, govt. etc) who don’t teach us HOW to properly think for ourselves, they just teach us WHAT to think.
if you are wondering where you know the narrator from, Oblivion the video game used him in the start for narration.
I would just like to say this is fantastic and fascinating and also that I never realized there is a Lions Head in his pipe smoke ha! Awesome.
I love this!
Love his logic about creation
The words are C.S. Lewis, the narrator is Ralph Cosham.
The man voicing this is a voice on Elder Scrolls Oblivion
I kept waiting for him to say something about the amulet of kings 😂
I try to understand CS Lewis. After many years, I do not understand him, but remain open-minded about him. I can say though, that, if a theologian is excessively difficult to understand, then, maybe, there are too many question marks. Ordinary people must be able to understand any potential explainer about matters, otherwise such men offer less than promised. But among all people, we should still try to find a basis of unity and common values.
@@lillybam6359 Suki James ~ . It must be nice to have a grandson. Thank you for a comment. May I inquire if you have ever read CSLewis' "The Screwtape Letters"?. Maybe when your grandson is 16 years old you might want him to read that.
Perhaps you should realise he lived in a different day and time. It’s like reading King James Version of the Bible and then doubting the Bible simply because you don’t understand it. Thankfully there are easier versions to read so we do not use that excuse anymore!
Good Lord's will is the light. God bless !
Everything here on earth is temporary, God gift is eternity 🙏
This guy does voices for the Elder Scrolls games
Yes , male bretons
Amen. What matters is that God found me.
Very elegantly explained
C S Lewis is a brilliant man
was gonna listen to fall asleep---way too interesting!!! lol
The greatest gift God has given His creation is His Son Jesus our Lord and Savior, the second greatest gift is the written Word...the Holy Bible.
Wow these questions are all so pointed and aggressive!!! C.S Lewis is so tactful answering such insulting questions
Beautifully read! Thank you.
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Question 5 Many people feel resentful or unhappy because they think they are the target of an unjust fate; these feelings are stimulated by bereavement, illness, deranged domestic or working conditions, or the observation of suffering in others. What is the Christian view of this problem? C.S. Lewis: "The Christian view is that men are created to be in a certain relationship to God, if we are in that relation to him the right relation to one another will follow inevitably. Christ said it was difficult for the rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. Matthew chapter 19 verse 23; Mark chapter 10 verse 23; Luke chapter 18 verse 24, referring no doubt to riches in the ordinary sense, but I think it really covers riches in every sense: good fortune, health, popularity, and all the things the one wants to have, all these things tend just, as money tends, to make you feel independent of God, Because if you are happy already and contented in this life, you don't want to turn away to anything more and so you try to rest in a shadowy happiness as if it could last forever. But God wants to give you a real and eternal happiness, consequently, he may have to take all these riches away from you, if he doesn't you will go on relying on them. It sounds cruel, doesn't it? But I am beginning to find out that what people call the cruel doctrines, are really the kindest ones in the long run. I used to think it was a cruel doctrine to say that troubles and sorrows were punishment. But I find it in practice, that when you are in trouble, the moment you regard it as a punishment it becomes easier to bear. If you think of this world simply as a place intended for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable. Think of it as a place of training and correction and it's not so bad. Imagine a set of people all living in the same building half of them think it is a hotel, the other half think it is a prison. Those who think it a hotel might regard it as quite intolerable, and those who thought it a prison might decide that it was really surprisingly comfortable. So what seems the ugly doctrine, is the one that comforts and strengthens you in the end. The people that try to hold an optimistic view of this world will become pessimists; the people who hold a pretty stern view of it become optimistic
Thank you
If the universe didn't make sense, we would never be able to discover it. God is Love.
thank you for this
Wow what an intelligent human being
15:40 C. S. Lewis, fortunately, seems to have more in common with St. Ignatius of Loyola than with Luther on this one!
Prayer, Mr. Lewis
Brother Jauffre preaching the word of Akatosh at Weynon Priory. - 3E 433
I was so surprised when I clicked on this video and heard the voice lol.
So many good points by C S Lewis
What a wonderful and considerate mind
Have you ever played The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion? Well the narrator is the same person that voiced several of the characters in that game, most notably Jauffre, Grandmaster of the Blades.
When Jesus said feed the hungry did he mean food?
Or did he mean those seeking spiritual food?
Something to ponder…
There’s a small but meaningful typo (speako?) at 5:43. It does get made clear by what follows it, but when the narrator says that we share in God’s reason in only an, _“…imperfect and uninterrupted way.”,_ it should of course have been, _“…imperfect and_ *interrupted* _way”._
Can't get over the fact that the voice actor of Jauffrey from Oblivion is reading this.
Work out your own salvation... That speaks in itself, does it?
True trust yourself. God speaks to us. Jesus truly is Lord, no other power can overpower God. Amen
Sounds like something Satan would say....
Rather to trust in Christ Jesus and his deeds over your own.
You may fair better.
@@roonbare2769 I respect your opinion. Try having faith and not working towards the fulfillment of that faith for the benefit of others and your own soul, and see if Christ wouldn't tell you, "I know you not. You call me Lord, but have not shown me kindness when I was hungry, thirsty, sick and in prison."
@@omathitis8498 ah , you are clearly a "works" based believer . Did what Jesus accomplish on the cross work or not? According to your theology : no.
If you attempt to be justified by your works , you have separated yourself from Christ , and fallen from grace.
All our good works are but filthy rags ...
I could go on, I'm sure we both have had this debate before .
We can also assume neither of us was particularly moved by the other sides arguments.
@@roonbare2769 That is your opinion. I never said that faith is exempted or unnecessary. In fact, without faith, all works that we do are in vain. I am against lazy people going around accusing others of this and that, and has no love in their hearts. Jesus' faith is never an idle one, but is filled with good works. The disciples toiled up to their last breath to make sure that the Gospel is taught to everyone they are able to reach. The early Christians were martyred because they believed that the true followers of Christ are doers of their faith, active participants in making faith which is an immaterial reality be manifested in to something that can be experienced and seen in the material world that constantly seeks evidence of its existence. Also, all of Christ's commandments are of good works, "feed the hungry, do good to your enemies, pray for those who persecutes you, forgive those who sin against you..." If you do the good works that He taught us that we should do, will it still be as filthy rags in His sight? Lazy fellow, hiding behind faith but is not willing to lift a finger to help! You say that you have faith, but ridicules everyone else who works because of the faith in them that makes them industrious and fruitful in all of good works that God has taught us to do everyday. You may have faith, but you have no love. Because if you do have love, you will work.
What a great mind
One objection I have: Jesus believes there is a devil, spoke directly to him, was tempted by him in the desert. He called some people children of the devil. I don't see why a Christian would disagree with Christ.
Because of the doctrine of a "cheap grace" that we (man-kind) are helping Satan promote and trying to make an argument
@@pmp450 Grace is not cheap. Anyone who realizes their need for Christ and the depth of His sacrifice in taking the punishment for their sins the sins of the whole world, cannot view grace as cheap. Anyone who claims that we need to earn God's grace, which we cannot do, does not understand the magnitude of His grace. To accept God's grace is to walk in the freedom that He has given us, with the easy yoke and light burden that He provides.
@@pmp450 My thoughts on the subject: I've heard the term "cheap grace" applied by some Christians as a criticism of other Christians. I don't know if this is what you mean by it, but I've heard it used as a description of someone who claims to be a Christian but does not attend church every Sunday, read the bible every day, pray regularly, volunteer to usher or teach Sunday School, give 10% of their income to the church, make Saturday a holy day of rest, etc. Some use it in describing someone who gets saved and then continues to live a sinful lifestyle such as promiscuity, stealing, abusing drugs, beating their spouse, and the like. I don't think this is necessarily a sign of believing a doctrine of "cheap grace." It may be a sign that the person did not surrender to Christ and accept His free gift of salvation. It may be that the person is truly saved but is a new Christian, and the behavior will change as the person grows in a relationship with Christ and digs into scripture and applies it to his or her life. I believe that God gives each of us a new heart when we accept Him as Lord and Savior, and from then on, we cannot be comfortable with our sinful behavior because our new hearts want what is good in God's eyes. We don't stop sinning instantly upon being saved, but as we continue to live in Christ and have Christ living in us, we are conformed more and more to His likeness. Our appetites for sin decrease as they are displaced by our desire for more of God. We will never be perfect, but we are made into new creations by Christ. Once saved, we cannot continue to ignore our sinful behavior, issues of sin must be addressed. I have seen how people make different choices after being rescued from the power of sin by Jesus. They seem to have new eyes to see some of their habitual behavior, that was once normal and acceptable to them, as a problem. It seems like God brings one issue to light and deals with it, then brings another issue to light and deals with it, and so on. He doesn't leave us where we are, but it starts with a new heart, adoption as now one of His children, and continues with the work of the Holy Spirit, His Word, and our growing understanding of Who He is and what He wants from us. Our behavior is a result of the change within us. To start with behavior, and expect to earn God's grace by our obedience, is to begin a losing battle. We cannot behave on our own power. We cannot earn His grace. The whole point of grace is that it is unmerited favor. God's grace shown to us is a part of His sacrificial love. It's free. It's not cheap. We cannot do anything to earn it. It is a free and invaluable gift.
@@JB--- Oh you are SO right! Amen, sister? (brother?). Grace is part of God, a gift we receive because without it we can not begin the journey, as you so readily described, to our salvation. Complete surrender to God's will is rarely, if ever, instantaneous. It takes time. Our sinful nature is not easily overcome just by wanting it. It must be overcome by allowing God's Grace to work it's way into our hearts, our minds and our lives. Step by step, sin by sin God's grace and mercy lets the knots of sin unravel from our brains and minds and hearts until we can see clearly what "His" (and I use quotes here because the thought of a gendered God is a bit too old fashioned, even for me) will is for our lives. I commend you for hitting the proverbial nail on the head. I could not have said it better. Nor do I think Lewis could have either. Bravo!
Brilliant answers.
It always blows my mind how Lewis can take the casual assumptions of secularists and atheists and turn them on their head.
Because he was one, and spent many years using them as arguments against Christianity.
I’m trying to find a pdf or book version of this but nothing comes up for this title. Any ideas?
It's in the essay collection called "God in the dock" try to find a pdf copy of that.
This is beyond valuable to me right now.
I disagree only once, beards are mandatory
Beards are the Natural way. God wanted women to have smooth faces.
Vikings were handsome men. 😁
good nuggets of truth
One white man who opened his eyes 👁️👁️. Remember this religion is a practice. God is in you.
There is 4 questions to choosing any religion in life.
1) Origin …. Where did it come from? who founded it? is there proof for its existence?
2) meaning… Why are we here? what is our purpose?
3) morality… is it moral? Does it teach you to lie? Does it teach you to still? Are the teachings mean evil nice?
4) destiny….. where will you end up? Do your good works have to outweigh your bad? Do you know you’re going to heaven?
If you honestly answer all four of these questions you will find that Christianity is the only religion in the world that will answer all of these questions in correspondence to one another and with truth.
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You brain 🧠 washed not a such thing Christianity was built by the devil archangels. God knows there not a such thing. Look there were no letter J in this time LMAO look it up. There was no English language either look it up. You answered your own questions what's your answers there's not a such thing as religion with God. People been idolizing false prophets and if you serve Jesus you're serving his false prophet Muslims the same thing there's only one true God that's the ultimate creator there is not a such thing as religion when he built this world so don't sit here and tell me God came up with Christianity or Muslims God created everything but religion
@@jayjaytime4065 so you don’t believe Jesus was Gods son