The most striking part to me was "You are no longer faced with an argument which demands your assent, but with a person who demands your confidence." - I find no interest in apologetics or arguing for the existence of God because I already experience and interact with Him as a *Person*. What use is it to debate whether He exists when I know He does, based on internal and external evidence, just as much as I know my friends and family exist?
Lewis talked about apologetics in this essay (of course the arguments are not for his own benefit, but for others): "In the first place, it must be admitted by anyone who accepts Christianity, that an increased interest in it, or even a growing measure of intellectual assent to it, is a very different thing from the conversion of England or even of a single soul. Conversion requires an alteration of the will, and an alteration which, in the last resort, does not occur without the intervention of the supernatural. I do not in the least agree with those who therefore conclude that the spread of an intellectual (and imaginative) climate favourable to Christianity is useless. You do not prove munition workers useless by showing that they cannot themselves win battles, however proper this reminder would be if they attempted to claim the honour due to fighting men. If the intellectual climate is such that, when a man comes to the crisis at which he must either accept or reject Christ, his reason and imagination are not on the wrong side, then his conflict will be fought out under favourable conditions. Those who help to produce and spread such a climate are therefore doing useful work: and yet no such great matter after all. Their share is a modest one; and it is always possible that nothing - nothing whatever - may come of it. Far higher than they stands that character whom, to the best of my knowledge, the present Christian movement has not yet produced - the *Preacher* in the full sense, the Evangelist, the man on fire, the man who infects. The propagandist, the apologist, only represents John Baptist: the Preacher represents the Lord Himself. He will be sent - or else he will not. But unless he comes we mere Christian intellectuals will not effect very much. That does not mean we should down tools ('The Decline of Religion’).
I think there’s quite a bit of variety in the “body of Christ” much like there is in our own bodies. Different organs for different functions. Your relative lack of interest in debating Gods existence hopefully frees you up to be used elsewhere within the church.
I feel like I need to watch this like 10 times to fully understand
Mr Lewis was on a whole nother level!!
I have only watched two minutes of this and I'm hooked already.
Thank you again for doing these great doodles.
Wow! CS Lewis never ceases to amaze me.
Thank You for such high quality and diligence illustrating CS Lewis
These animations make the faith so fun and accessible. You are doing God's work!
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So glad to see a fresh one! I really enjoy these.
Fantastic! I always am ecstatic when I see that a new Doodle has been released 😊
Always excellent and appreciated. Thanks and God bless!
So Well Done!!!, I Love C.S. Lewis. Thank You
Thank you always for the work you do !
These are really cool! Keep them coming, God bless! ❤
Your videos are always so great; thanks for the labor you put into them. God bless :)
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Best channel, love your work
Great graphics!
Great Essay!
Wonderful. Thank you!
Amazing as always 🎉
Praise God, this could not come at a better time!
Very well thought out
Timely. Thx.
I was just wondering when a new one would come out an hour before you uploaded it.
And the song 🎶 at the end 👌🏻
The link to that Easter Musical is in the video description.
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Masterpiece.
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The most striking part to me was "You are no longer faced with an argument which demands your assent, but with a person who demands your confidence." - I find no interest in apologetics or arguing for the existence of God because I already experience and interact with Him as a *Person*. What use is it to debate whether He exists when I know He does, based on internal and external evidence, just as much as I know my friends and family exist?
Lewis talked about apologetics in this essay (of course the arguments are not for his own benefit, but for others): "In the first place, it must be admitted by anyone who accepts Christianity, that an increased interest in it, or even a growing measure of intellectual assent to it, is a very different thing from the conversion of England or even of a single soul. Conversion requires an alteration of the will, and an alteration which, in the last resort, does not occur without the intervention of the supernatural.
I do not in the least agree with those who therefore conclude that the spread of an intellectual (and imaginative) climate favourable to Christianity is useless. You do not prove munition workers useless by showing that they cannot themselves win battles, however proper this reminder would be if they attempted to claim the honour due to fighting men. If the intellectual climate is such that, when a man comes to the crisis at which he must either accept or reject Christ, his reason and imagination are not on the wrong side, then his conflict will be fought out under favourable conditions. Those who help to produce and spread such a climate are therefore doing useful work: and yet no such great matter after all. Their share is a modest one; and it is always possible that nothing - nothing whatever - may come of it.
Far higher than they stands that character whom, to the best of my knowledge, the present Christian movement has not yet produced - the *Preacher* in the full sense, the Evangelist, the man on fire, the man who infects. The propagandist, the apologist, only represents John Baptist: the Preacher represents the Lord Himself. He will be sent - or else he will not. But unless he comes we mere Christian intellectuals will not effect very much. That does not mean we should down tools ('The Decline of Religion’).
I think there’s quite a bit of variety in the “body of Christ” much like there is in our own bodies. Different organs for different functions. Your relative lack of interest in debating Gods existence hopefully frees you up to be used elsewhere within the church.
Not by might nor by power but by My Spirit says the Lord Almighty - Zachariah 4:6
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