Lewis: “…The apparent profundity of Pantheism thinly veils a mass of spontaneous picture-thinking and owes its plausibility to that fact. Pantheists and Christians agree that God is present everywhere. Pantheists conclude that He is ‘diffused’ or ‘concealed’ in all things and therefore a universal medium rather that a concrete entity, because their minds are really dominated by the picture of a gas, or fluid, or space itself. The Christian, on the other hand, deliberately rules out such images by saying that God is totally present at every point of space and time, and locally present in none. Again the Pantheist and Christian agree that we are all dependent on God and intimately related to Him. But the Christian defines this relation in terms of Maker and made, whereas the Pantheist (at least of the popular kind) says, we are ‘parts’ of Him, or are contained in Him. Once more, the picture of a vast extended something which can be divided into areas has crept in. Because of this fatal picture Pantheism concludes that God must be equally present in what we call evil and what we call good and therefore indifferent to both (ether permeates the mud and the marble impartially). The Christian has to reply that this is far too simple; God is present in a great many different modes: not present in matter as He is present in man, not present in all men as in some, not present in any other man as in Jesus. Pantheist and Christian also agree that God is super-personal. The Christian means by this that God has a positive structure which we could never have guessed in advance, any more than a knowledge of squares would have enabled us to guess at a cube. He contains ‘persons’ (three of them) while remaining one God, as a cube contains six squares while remaining one solid body. We cannot comprehend such a structure any more than the Flatlanders could comprehend a cube. But we can at least comprehend our incomprehension, and see that if there is something beyond personality it OUGHT to be incomprehensible in that sort of way. The Pantheist, on the other hand, though he may say ‘superpersonal’ really conceives God in terms of what is sub-personal-as though the Flatlanders thought a cube existed in FEWER dimensions than a square. At every point Christianity has to correct the natural expectations of the Pantheist and offer something more difficult, just as Schrödinger [the scientist behind the Quantum Theory] has to correct Democritus [the ancient Greek scientist behind the Atomic Theory]. At every moment he has to multiply distinctions and rule out false analogies. He has to substitute the mappings of something that has a positive, concrete, and highly articulated character for the formless generalities in which Pantheism is at home…” (Christianity and ‘Religion’, Miracles). See helpful notes in the video description above.
I like the point Lewis makes about prayer; when we pray, it is God in us prompting us, God with us leading us, God before us hearing us. So great to know just how aware of us God really is; aware of each one of us. Joy!
This channel's become such a precious classic for me. It is something you constantly go back for both inspiration and comforting time. Thank you so much for your work.
I just came across a copy of "Mere Christianity " at the local thrift store and picked it up for .50$ You have brought C.S. Lewis more alive than any Hollywood rendition of Narnia! God bless you brother, We fly soon!
C. S. Lewis has gob smacked me. Again. I read this book something like thirty years ago and I still quote it today. Thank you for providing these pills of wisdom yet today.
I've been asked on several occasions, "If you could have dinner with someone for a night - dead or alive - who would you choose?". How wonderful I think it would be, to have the company and conversation of this man for an evening, over supper.
After Jesus, CS Lewis would be a great choice. Actually, I'd rather be a fly on the wall and hear him with the Inklings, rather than see him try to dumb things down for a nitwit.
I remember reading this and my jaw dropping; granted I'd only just come into the faith, but the way he explains the Trinity and the Body of Christ made so much logical sense, rather than the whole nonsensical "egg" metaphor I sometimes hear thrown about (especially in youth ministries).
CS Lewis has had a profound effect on my understanding Christianity , and these illustrations of his great work are absolutely fantastic. Clearly set out, highly intelligent, full of detail, facts and reality. Absolutely love them. Thank you so much. God bless you. ❤️🙏❤️
Amazing creativity in visually expressing the narration, fantastic development in artwork, wonderful citations which Lewis would allude to but didn't outright state in chapter and verse-- You really are a blessing and marvel, CSLewisDoodle. You'll never get millions of subs or views but please never forget that each view you do get is another soul you've touched by your choice of audio, your choice of art and your passion for expressing truths in your way. Thank you!
I was overjoyed to find a new video in the Mere Christianity series. Seeing the drawings bring the text to life, accompanied by clear and personal dictation, helps me engage with the ideas presented. Thank you @CSLewisDoodle for orchestrating these wonderful videos!
I hope that I myself will one day do something remotely as good or as helpful as this. Helpful as in, helpful for Christians, or for those who will become some. These are just so outstanding ^_^
Thanks so much, appreciate it. Remember that scene with Moses and the Shepherd's rod (i.e., the symbol of his care for the flock), and remember the Almighty asked him to throw it down? It was the beginning of many miracles for God and His people. So all you need is for God's supernatural power on your care for His people, and amazing, unthought and unheard of things take place! biblehub.com/exodus/4-2.htm
Love CSLewisDoodle! Taking a class going through Mere Christianity. After reading the chapter, I go to the doodle of the chapter. So helpful. Feel as if my absorption of Lewis’s concepts are much clearer and deeper. Thank you!
Thank you so much. I don't know how I stumbled on your doodles about a year ago but it's how I found out about C.S. Lewis. I now have several of his books 📚 seriously thank you, also your doodle skills are the greatest
All throughout the day yesterday I was mulling over the concept of God being a personal God and struggling to understand how this fits in with the reality that I know. This video came up in my subscription feed just in time and with exactly the right words of wisdom I needed to hear - thank you!
No big whoop, @CSLewisDoodle is just the most profoundly edifying and resonant source of easily digestible theological hermeneutics about Christendom on not just the entire internet, but in all known earthly existence.
How he paints the picture and uses similes to break down complex concepts is well done. Anyone can follow the dots he connects to understand that which many people don't fully grasp
Experiencing C.S. Lewis’ works being read AND doodled legerdemain-like is a thrill akin to personally visiting Narnia. Fiction? But that’s just how surreal this channel is! Thank you!
I love all your doodles, but I think this reading was particularly suited to this format! I wonder how influenced Lewis was by the book, Flatland, by Edwin Abbott? The cube analogy is very similar.
Lewis referred to Flatlanders in his book, 'Miracles' (see my quote in comment section above). He also touches on the book me thinks in 'The Problem of Pain' (Divine Omnipotence). Edwin Abbot was a Theologian of course.
Looking for a contemporary explanation of and/or theological argumentation for a Christian concept to share with my high school students. Methinks this will work.
Lewis: “…The apparent profundity of Pantheism thinly veils a mass of spontaneous picture-thinking and owes its plausibility to that fact.
Pantheists and Christians agree that God is present everywhere. Pantheists conclude that He is ‘diffused’ or ‘concealed’ in all things and therefore a universal medium rather that a concrete entity, because their minds are really dominated by the picture of a gas, or fluid, or space itself. The Christian, on the other hand, deliberately rules out such images by saying that God is totally present at every point of space and time, and locally present in none.
Again the Pantheist and Christian agree that we are all dependent on God and intimately related to Him. But the Christian defines this relation in terms of Maker and made, whereas the Pantheist (at least of the popular kind) says, we are ‘parts’ of Him, or are contained in Him. Once more, the picture of a vast extended something which can be divided into areas has crept in. Because of this fatal picture Pantheism concludes that God must be equally present in what we call evil and what we call good and therefore indifferent to both (ether permeates the mud and the marble impartially). The Christian has to reply that this is far too simple; God is present in a great many different modes: not present in matter as He is present in man, not present in all men as in some, not present in any other man as in Jesus.
Pantheist and Christian also agree that God is super-personal. The Christian means by this that God has a positive structure which we could never have guessed in advance, any more than a knowledge of squares would have enabled us to guess at a cube. He contains ‘persons’ (three of them) while remaining one God, as a cube contains six squares while remaining one solid body. We cannot comprehend such a structure any more than the Flatlanders could comprehend a cube. But we can at least comprehend our incomprehension, and see that if there is something beyond personality it OUGHT to be incomprehensible in that sort of way. The Pantheist, on the other hand, though he may say ‘superpersonal’ really conceives God in terms of what is sub-personal-as though the Flatlanders thought a cube existed in FEWER dimensions than a square.
At every point Christianity has to correct the natural expectations of the Pantheist and offer something more difficult, just as Schrödinger [the scientist behind the Quantum Theory] has to correct Democritus [the ancient Greek scientist behind the Atomic Theory]. At every moment he has to multiply distinctions and rule out false analogies. He has to substitute the mappings of something that has a positive, concrete, and highly articulated character for the formless generalities in which Pantheism is at home…” (Christianity and ‘Religion’, Miracles).
See helpful notes in the video description above.
Excellent! Thank you :)
I encourage you to continue, I greatly enjoy these videos.
I like the point Lewis makes about prayer; when we pray, it is God in us prompting us, God with us leading us, God before us hearing us. So great to know just how aware of us God really is; aware of each one of us. Joy!
The snapping and 'eyes on the page' gesture is so funny and good. Actually got my attention. Massive kudos for that bit in particular.
This channel's become such a precious classic for me.
It is something you constantly go back for both inspiration and comforting time.
Thank you so much for your work.
Amen brother
“Anyone can be simple if he has no facts to bother about.”
I just came across a copy of "Mere Christianity " at the local thrift store and picked it up for .50$
You have brought C.S. Lewis more alive than any Hollywood rendition of Narnia!
God bless you brother,
We fly soon!
C. S. Lewis has gob smacked me. Again.
I read this book something like thirty years ago and I still quote it today. Thank you for providing these pills of wisdom yet today.
I've been asked on several occasions, "If you could have dinner with someone for a night - dead or alive - who would you choose?". How wonderful I think it would be, to have the company and conversation of this man for an evening, over supper.
After Jesus, CS Lewis would be a great choice. Actually, I'd rather be a fly on the wall and hear him with the Inklings, rather than see him try to dumb things down for a nitwit.
God never ceases to blow my mind 😂 May He bless those who watch this 💓
I remember reading this and my jaw dropping; granted I'd only just come into the faith, but the way he explains the Trinity and the Body of Christ made so much logical sense, rather than the whole nonsensical "egg" metaphor I sometimes hear thrown about (especially in youth ministries).
I had the same reaction when I first read Lewis' explanation of the Holy Trinity in Mere Christianity. Elegant and simple but also very effective.
Egg metaphor? What was it? I've never heard of it.
CS Lewis has had a profound effect on my understanding Christianity , and these illustrations of his great work are absolutely fantastic. Clearly set out, highly intelligent, full of detail, facts and reality. Absolutely love them. Thank you so much. God bless you. ❤️🙏❤️
You have done AMAZING things with the creativity and technical acumen God's given you! Thank you so much, and I hope you keep it up for years to come!
I can never watch the Making and Begetting series without crying. God is so wonderful!
Amazing creativity in visually expressing the narration, fantastic development in artwork, wonderful citations which Lewis would allude to but didn't outright state in chapter and verse-- You really are a blessing and marvel, CSLewisDoodle. You'll never get millions of subs or views but please never forget that each view you do get is another soul you've touched by your choice of audio, your choice of art and your passion for expressing truths in your way. Thank you!
I was overjoyed to find a new video in the Mere Christianity series. Seeing the drawings bring the text to life, accompanied by clear and personal dictation, helps me engage with the ideas presented. Thank you @CSLewisDoodle for orchestrating these wonderful videos!
So amazing! Watched with my teenaged son. Thanks
I love how much thought is put into these drawings and visual tricks.
I find it incredible how much on point C.S. Lewis was with his observations. Simple and yet profound every time.
I hope that I myself will one day do something remotely as good or as helpful as this.
Helpful as in, helpful for Christians, or for those who will become some.
These are just so outstanding ^_^
Thanks so much, appreciate it. Remember that scene with Moses and the Shepherd's rod (i.e., the symbol of his care for the flock), and remember the Almighty asked him to throw it down? It was the beginning of many miracles for God and His people. So all you need is for God's supernatural power on your care for His people, and amazing, unthought and unheard of things take place!
biblehub.com/exodus/4-2.htm
@@CSLewisDoodle A very interesting response, thank you very much!
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Love CSLewisDoodle! Taking a class going through Mere Christianity. After reading the chapter, I go to the doodle of the chapter. So helpful. Feel as if my absorption of Lewis’s concepts are much clearer and deeper. Thank you!
I watch this with the book in my hand. No words to say how helpful I find this. You're doing God's work buddy!
Thank you so much. I don't know how I stumbled on your doodles about a year ago but it's how I found out about C.S. Lewis. I now have several of his books 📚 seriously thank you, also your doodle skills are the greatest
All throughout the day yesterday I was mulling over the concept of God being a personal God and struggling to understand how this fits in with the reality that I know. This video came up in my subscription feed just in time and with exactly the right words of wisdom I needed to hear - thank you!
Profound and amazing. What awesome sense this makes. Thanks for C S LEWIS. THANK YOU, GOD.
This part of Mere Christianity was totally a watershed moment for me. Thank you for doodling this 🤍🕊️
No big whoop, @CSLewisDoodle is just the most profoundly edifying and resonant source of easily digestible theological hermeneutics about Christendom on not just the entire internet, but in all known earthly existence.
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How he paints the picture and uses similes to break down complex concepts is well done. Anyone can follow the dots he connects to understand that which many people don't fully grasp
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Experiencing C.S. Lewis’ works being read AND doodled legerdemain-like is a thrill akin to personally visiting Narnia. Fiction? But that’s just how surreal this channel is! Thank you!
Thank you very much for your work!
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I love all your doodles, but I think this reading was particularly suited to this format! I wonder how influenced Lewis was by the book, Flatland, by Edwin Abbott? The cube analogy is very similar.
Lewis referred to Flatlanders in his book, 'Miracles' (see my quote in comment section above). He also touches on the book me thinks in 'The Problem of Pain' (Divine Omnipotence). Edwin Abbot was a Theologian of course.
“Eyes on me!” ... lol!
Cool video, big fan!!!.
Looking for a contemporary explanation of and/or theological argumentation for a Christian concept to share with my high school students. Methinks this will work.
Blessed Trinity...
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Cool vid.
What does he mean by "clean and bright"? Is he talking about non-believers or people from other religions?
I think Lewis is saying the truth applies to all - believers and unbelievers in Christ. The dustier the mirror, the worse your view of God.
hahaha the fingersnap😂