Shortest Way Home: C.S. Lewis & Mere Christianity (2013) | Full Movie | Dave Gaylor | Tom Dallis
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- Doubt and disbelief live in the hearts of many people as they wrestle with the questions of good and evil and the existence of God. Those who embrace Christianity as a way of life must then learn how to live out their faith as a transformed individual in an imperfect and difficult world. But how is this accomplished?The Shortest Way Home: C.S. Lewis & Mere Christianity is an introductory review to Lewis’s classic work on issues of faith and reason. Viewers will find honest discussion and helpful insights for the tough questions asked by believers and skeptics alike, including:• How do we know right from wrong?• If a good God made the world, why has it gone wrong?• Why did God give us free will to choose to do good and evil?• Is Christianity a bargain in which we are rewarded for doing good things and punished for doing bad things?• Is it enough to believe in God without believing in Him personally?• Can you believe Jesus was a good moral teacher but not the Savior of the world?Those who journey to the heart of Lewis’s most famous apologetic work will find that the longest way round-the hard way of discipleship, of learning to truly love God and man-is the shortest, and only way home
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I am watching this as I search all over for anything that can resolve the questions and doubts about God that I can no longer ignore. I wish for a faith deeper than my doubts and I’m searching the world over so I may not stumble.
What is causing your questions? It's good to examine doubts full in the face so they don't gnaw away at your peace of mind x
Look up "Mull Monastery" for further details.
I have discovered that God leaves us some mysteries to struggle with. The purpose of faith is to hold us to the struggle until He chooses to reveal those answers. Carry on with what you do know.
@@fredhall5038 enlightened one, blessings
I am glad you are searching. You are not alone.
If you struggle with doubt about Jesus, do this... deep in the recesses of your heart, earnestly and respectfully ask, "God, if You are real, show Yourself to me...".
I did when I was 16, and I had an encounter with Him. My life was changed. He is real. In the Bible, He says "If you seek me, you will find me, if you seek Me with all of your heart."
Amen. It happened for me at age 29.
A similar thing happened to me and HE spoke to me, ask for Him to show you if He exists and if asking in ernest desire He does lead and will do so for all! ❣️
Did the same thing too. Our Lord is real and desires to have a relationship with us. God bless you
So true
Amen !
Jesus is my Lord and Saviour and I love Him with all my heart as I love all who have commented on this channel even though I don’t know you. We were all born in the image of Christ 🙏🙏🙏❤️
thank God for C.S. Lewis; for teaching us the basics about the relationship of God and Men ... so that we can stand firm on our Faith in Him.
yes , He loves us.
But He is not Tame.
He is very, very
good.
Actually, the best way to learn the basics about the relationship between God and man is to spend time with God.
This is a good tribute to the man. I’ve read Mere Christianity before but this explanatory piece is a very useful addendum. I’ve struggled with pride all my life and even now as I’m taking baby steps away from it I do stumble. I will persist and through the grace of God I will remove this sin as much as I humanly can. It’s a process I embrace with a deeper, and deepening faith. Praise God.
All men to some degree want to be the best, the strongest, the smartest...pride.
Humble yourself before him and he shall lift you up.
Why does the Trinity not appear in the Bible?peace,,,,
@@lufhopespeacefully2037 the Holy Trinity is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit=3 in 1.
@@crystalweeks2873 .,ty for replying.,, as far as i know trinity is an old worshipping for some an egyptians who have worshipped ezice,authorice&hurce ,later on the church has hijacked the notion&also The concept of a trinity predates the Bible. The much older Hindu Vedas had a holy trinity.Called the trimurti, it was Brahma the creator, Vishnu the preserver, and Shiva the destroyer, three individual deities that are also a single deity.
The more I study Scripture and the more I attempt to walk in the Way.
The more it bothers me to see a Cross with Christ still hanging on it.
That is past, it is done, it is finished as He Himself said.
We know He now sits at the Right Hand of the Father on His Fathers Throne or is walking between the 7 Lamp Stands in Heaven.
That He is no longer hanging on the Cross.
Hallelujah !!!
Take care and God Bless...
C.S. Lewis was such a gift to man.❤
“The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.” - Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr
Jesus said, "No one is good but God alone." Mark 10:18
To do good things, first we have to know and accept that such and such thing is good or bad.
Touché!
We cannot be perfect. We have Christ's perfection.
Be ye perfect,as your Father in heaven is perfect.Matthew 5:48.Of course,Christ enabling,we can be perfect.
...well some of the "Acting?" in this movie was certainly less than perfect...
@@anarchorepublican5954 snap
But people negate attending church because they think "church people" are supposed to be perfect.
@@Rebel4Right We can be perfect-ing, because God is working to conform us to the image of Jesus (which would only make sense if we hadn't arrived, yet). But what Jesus said, about "be ye perfect", should not be taken to mean that we would achieve moral perfection in this lifetime. It has to be more like becoming perfected, because the rest of the New Testament would condemn salvation through achieving perfection as works salvation, and 1 John 1 condemns it as a lie: "If we say that we have no sin, we lie, and the truth is not in us". While there are theologians who love to put Jesus and Paul, and even John, in opposition to each other, I do not believe this is honest. Jesus was not saying that, unless we achieve moral perfection, we are not saved. It even disagrees with what he said about salvation, in John 3 and when they asked him what do we do to do the work of God? "The work of God is to believe in Him whom He sent". Salvation is not for "the few, the proud", who are finally saved because they ran the gantlet, and made it out on the other side, with self-earned perfection they can present to God. That's a dangerous false gospel, so we don't want to go there. The Jesus of John 3 could not have meant that, because He did not oppose Himself.
Getting through the door that Christ’s grace and mercy offer without the burden of the merit that religions bring, is truly the gift of God. Once we trust the Saviour and become a Christian, God will in no wise cast us out. A child of God is forever His and He will never toss us out the door like some men throw a puppy in a bag and throw it in a river. Yes, Amazing Grace how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me. “All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.” John 6:37
The moment you realize that you are part of God's plan, it is exciting, and it changes your life forever.
such a great short video to begin to understand CS LEWIS thank you to all involved. God bless us all , to be one with him.
Excellent intellectual teaching....
And, to sum up the first two commandments stand....
LOVE The LORD your GOD with all your heart & mind....
LOVE your neighbours as yourself....the new GOD given nature....
Respect for others is the begining
"Denominationalism", should never have happened.. "Line upon line, precept upon precept..." 👑
I needed this today and am thankful for C.S. Lewis and those who invested in this video and pray it blesses many others.
Always loved CS LEWIS
C. S Lewis is very wise. Love his books.
YOU SHOULD DO SOME RSEARCH, HE BELIEVED " prayed for the dead" BELIEVED IN PURGATORY " and most importantly
he falsely BELIEVED THAT YOU CAN FIND SALVATION AFTER DEATH!! I COULD GO ON. cheers
Thank you for placing these questions before us and before this generation to help us how to clarify Christianity to the next generation.
Ive always heard we will never be perfect, but only Christ was the only perfect when human.
Ive never been able to grasp the ideas in these chapters. Your video helped me to do that. C s Lewis had a mission to reach out to a society that had moved away from the church. He could do this because he had experienced it himself.
Unfortunately a lot of churches have moved away from teaching on the word of God and teaching a doctrine on mans word.
@@kellynisbett5876so true. Heartbreaking. Fortunately my parish and its priests stand firm in the tradition doctrine.
@@st.joanne Yes as my Catholic brothers and my mums church of England all Traditions . Having said that after being verbally attacked by my brother for reading and studying the bible i.He decided to do a bible study .Maybe his eyes will be opened.
Good & evil: hearts of flesh & hearts of stone 😊
He is a truth in a false age.
THE LORD JESUS CHRIST YESHUA MESSIAH IS THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE.
We wouldn’t need Jesus if we are perfect. 😊
Mankind will always need Jesus, even in a perfected state, because he is the sustainer of our life. He is God. Only God is immortal, can raise the dead, and sustain the life of his creation eternally.
I absolutely love this ❤️ Praise the Lord thy GOD 🎼🕊️ JESUS CHRIST My Savior ❤️🙏
good video of the great book
As to the intro, who says it’s above you? It very well is below us too, right under our feet, in the water we drink, the breath we share with the trees roots and leaves. Within us too. Must never negate God in creation. What you do to the least, you do to me. I have come to add, not take away. You’ll find me in the garden, not in the merchandising commodification of creation value system…
He was speaking in a different vane. Your of course right too. But your appealing to higher values too, and not simply in a commom worldly vane as you stated.
A great man
It's wonderful teaching!
Golden Rule? "Do unto others as you would have them do to us" - Not really...the golden rule is "Love others as you love yourself".
A useful background to the book. Unfortunate that they have included irritating music that makes it so much more difficult listen to carefully.
That was a nice documentary!
This was excellent, thank you all!
Reading “Resurection “ of Leon Tolstoy it’s easy to understand the moral law Lewis exposes in “Mere Christianity “ since from the very first chapter, Tolstoy expresses how in that beautiful morning all creation was praising God except for the smallest crowd that was accompanying a prostitute who was sentenced to death, yes, of all creation only we as humans choose to disobey the moral law
Thank you
To everyone who's watching, there's a heretic advertisement for healing that claims they discovered erased text from the Bible. Do not fall for it, God already offers us healing in His Word. Ask that in prayer with faith and you will receive it. Blessings from the Lord Jesus Christ and God the Father.
Yes, Clive
" further up and further In"
I know that Jesus is the King of the universe and when you look at how the universe follows order and perfection it gives me a strong confidence in God. The red one cant make such claims over anything except sinful vain men on a sinful vain planet.
I am not sure Gods foreknowledge is purely a result of him knowing us too well. That would imply we are made of rotten stuff so he knows what we are gonna do. We are just victims. Lewis give the example of an author writing a book. There are two time lines or at least 2 dimensions of time. He knows what we will do cause he can see the present, the past, and the future all at the same time. Hope this makes swnse
Buoyancy and density defies the law of gravity
Thank You SIR ..
32:42 Q: What do you say to someone you sez Christianity is a Crutch ?
A:..Well it is a Crutch...☜ Love it 💕
God is our strength but he's no crutch ,because you have to be strong soilders in christ Jesus love. It's not always easy to stand up for what is right and it's not always popular to stand up against the evil world. Do you choose real justice or injustice. Straight is the gate and narrow is the way leads to life. But broad and wide is the road that leads to destruction.
@@cherrybell2995 many a strong soldier is wounded in battle...we all need a crutch at those times when we are all weak or injured...Christianity is something steady and strong to lean on in those times.....
😊😏👍💛
A great return. Crutches are necessary to complete a course of reaching a destination.
I need Jesus because He
is an ever help present trouble. Pray in an instant.
Jesus will never leave you or forsake you.
The same yesterday, today and forever.
Jesus I trust in you.
Thanks +++
Thank you.
This man says the truth…Stop babying all of these groups that want special treatment at the expense of everyone else’s rights. The last 4 years have been hell!
20:57 It's funny that this lady quotes Einstein, who indeed said that "God doesn't play dice with the universe" and then claims that physics says that we live in a deterministic universe. The problem with this argument is that Einstein was wrong.
Einstein's argument was against quantum mechanics, which says that there is an element of randomness to the universe. Einstein tried very hard to disprove quantum mechanics, coming up with several experiments which he expected to prove his point. All these experiments turned out in favour of quantum mechanics instead.
The takeaway from this, apart from Einstein being wrong, is that scientific knowledge is not determined by what people say, but by what can be proved in experiments.
@ 31:00, you apparently quote Lewis talking about the "do unto others" directive. Lewis says we can't carry that out until we first 'love others as we love ourselves' and we can't do that until we learn to love God." In saying that, Lewis seems to bypass the bit about our capability (and my inability) to love ourselves. Lewis basically rewrites that verse to read 'Love others as you love God' and that's not what the text says! The commandment in the bible says "love others as you love yourself" - Not 'love others as you love God.' - What am I missing?
There is nothing godly in wars, Jesus came and gave us a new commandment to love one another, we’re not serving a country we serve the god who created the heavens and the earth and who have revealed himself in his Son Jesus Christ who came in the flesh died for our sins.
31:40 and. 32:18. Faith for Lewis.
We can have free will when God knows all, including what we're going to do. What God knows, does not impinge on our moral freedom and responsibility at all. He is able to take our free wills into account, while what He knows will happen is what it truly will be. We aren't being pushed into our thoughts and actions by it, like gears being pushed by other gears.
It is helpful to look at other scripture to get some balance about this issue. The babies, who have the truth of God revealed to them, do not worry about God forcing them to sin, or to disbelieve. We know it is our fault, and are grateful for His mercy toward us, in spite of our sin and unbelief. The proclamations of God's supposed ruthlessness in predestination, all come from the wise and prudent theologians. We, the trusting babies, know better than that.
I quite like the idea of the club that someone is just about hit someone with turning into a marshmallow, the lesson learnt there would be how ridiculous it would be and you have a treat to eat, the progression there would be to stop looking ridiculous and rotting teeth. Of course thst is to say for reasons unknown to me the actual act of brutal violence seems to be the necessary. Is that the requirements of good or evil? from either point of view i think not.
salvation depends on the gratuitous election of God." For he distinctly compares with the whole of Israel, or body of the people, the remnant which was to be saved by God's grace. It hence follows, that the cause of salvation exists not in men, but depends on the good pleasure of God alone.
This channel is Arminianism theology by Jacobus Arminius and Erasmus. Following the Pelagiusan controversy.
One of the strongest proofs that Scripture is the very Word of God I will link here:
Isiah 53 describes in graphic detail how our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus, would be executed 610 years before that method of execution had even been invented. In the Qumran Cave Dead Sea Scroll discovery of 1946 - 1947. There was an entire Isiah Scroll recovered and our Bibles are pretty much a match to it as long as they maintain a word for word based translation. That scroll is from 200 BC, (give or take a decade or so), so even if people say there's no way Isiah predicted all he did about the Lord's coming and execution 700 years before it happened. The date of that Scroll sets it firmly 200 years or so before the Lord was even born and that method of execution still hadn't been invented yet. I've seen reports that crucifixion was found to be used by the Romans in 90 BC but that still doesn't explain how Isiah knew about it 700 years before that time or even if you date it by the Isiah Scroll that was found in the Dead Sea Cash dated to 200 BC. It also demonstrates God's love for us by His preservation and the accuracy of the preservation of His Word.
If I had just Isiah 53 I could preach the Gospel as we find out from the story of Phillip and the Eunuch. Isiah 53 is among the strongest proofs that our Bibles do in fact contain God's Word showing His divine nature in His Prophetic Words given to Isiah via the Holy Spirit. Most have never seen this information which is truly sad in that our Savior is the one and only way to salvation for any of us. (John 14:6) We know from our Bibles that some will one day believe as that's one of the main reasons for the tribulation, to bring His people Israel back to Him and all those who are saved during that time. It's just sad knowing that no one has to arrive in Heaven well done if they'd just believe in Him now.
With the entire book of Isiah I could preach the Gospel for a lifetime as it lays it all out, including how it ends.
Take care and God Bless.
Our knowledge of Good and Evil came from the Garden of Eden when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit of the knowledge of Good and Evil
The shortest way home is to realize you never left. God creates like Himself and therefore His creations are also immutable, incorruptible and eternal. If not, then the source of imperfection must lie in Him. "You are at home in God, dreaming of exile, but perfectly capable of awakening."
Turn off the music in the background... It is contemptible.
lol. don't know if i'd use the word, contemptible, though i agree with the sentiment. so tired of 'background music' in general.
I have to wonder if cs didnt stumble on the entrance to hades (astral plane,summerland,purgatory to Catholics) which isnt Heaven at all but a place of deceptive demons & daimons. Some call this a schizophrenic disorder of the mind.
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Looks like you took my comment down, and I'm unable to reply to yours, which makes no sense to me. Remember, we all fall short in the glory of God.
Yes. I have no doubt you are a believer as I am. Blessings to you.
How about we read the Bible.
And then Hamas enters the scene and we realize that NOT all cultures have an innate sense of right and wrong.
‘Without lies, Islam, the tyrannical patriarchal idealogy of the sword, dies’.
AC RD
CS Lewis is an Arminianist. False doctrine of Pelagius aka the Pelagiusan controversy.
The only thing he wasn't correct about was the trinity. God his son Jesus and holy ghost are 3 seperate beings. They have the same purpose, in that they are the same but in reality they are seperate beings
Add in first 12 min👎
Why does the Trinity not appear in the Bible?peace,,,,
The narrator totally blew the Golden Rule at 30:03 - it is NOT do unto others as they do to us.
Perfection is like trying to get a grip on a cloud.
As for the Trinity, think of ice, steam and water. All different states of the same thing with their own function.
An overlooked great piece of writing which could be a core of study for upper school students.
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If you walk by a he spirit you will not fulfill the desires of the flesh
We are not saved by achieving perfection! We are being perfect-ed, conformed to the image of Jesus. Of course, Jesus wants us perfected, and we are to cooperate with Him perfecting us. But new flash, guys: nobody dies having achieved the complete image of Jesus in our lives. Not even some uber class of saints, no more than the lesser saints. We are saved in Jesus Christ's perfection, not our own. We are to be zealous and repent, being perfect-ed, but no honest person can look at themselves and believe we are anywhere close to perfection. To do so would cause hopeless despair, not faith, but that's because we'd have transfered our faith to our own ability to become perfect before we die, and that is a complete, lying, sucker bet. There is no reason to put so much faith in ourselves, but we don't have to; there is no benefit in trusting in a lie. What does the Bible say about our trusting our own hearts? That we are fools, if we trust in our own hearts.
Once you are TRULY BORN Again (2Corinthians 6:14-18, Acts 1-2:1-38, Romans 4-8, Galatians 5, John 15, etc), as far as God in Christ Jesus is concerned, You Are Perfect in HIS eyesight; you become Jesus-Jr. or God-Jr., clearly qualified to make Heaven, for you are in HIM (called "A Saint."). You love what JESUS loves and hate what HE hates!
@@messiahapostle8239 Your new nature is born of God, and it is conformed to Jesus, already. You are right; we are seen IN Jesus for salvation, not in ourselves. But our growthin Christian character is something God desires, and for purposes of conforming us to Jesus's image, He does see us as we really are in ourselves, but not for salvation. That is in Christ alone. It is all about the cross.
Amen, and so important to not despair because of falling short. Wanting to become perfect, doing best daily, I must remember that I can only achieve a little of His personality and hopefully reflect and yes share in true love. But 1st Corinthians ch 13 that love is ALL and above anything teaches me also that we eventually will know Him if we can know WHAT love looks like.......(not rude or proud or envious..etc....)........❣️❣️❣️
Mr. Lewis makes my head ache. Lewis in his old fashion style of presentation takes pains to build a foundation for his studies, then tears it down and starts all over. It can be exhausting for a non-philosopher to take in unless you reread his arguments three or four times. Eventually the truth reveals itself. But then I need sleep.
I agree.
Not an easy read for me ??
Lewis based his ideology on a Sumerian fable about a bare naked lady taking dietary advice from a chatty snake. Makes perfect sense.
Ahh yes, the pithy atheist - unfortunately, we all worship something, it appears you worship your own mind.
Today when you think of Belfast you think of unbridled immigration, both legal and illegal, of Muslims. Look into Ireland 2030.
Unfortunately the Irish are being replaced at one end by not having families and on the other end importing people who have large families and live off of public assistance.
Pray the Rosary daily to save Western European Christian countries and culture
Yes.
Winston and Enoch were right.
This video really REALLY didn't need the skits. "Hello fellow teen friend" urgh.
It’s good for young people, they have conversations, and it’s relevant.
Catholicism is not a denomination. All the others who broke away from Jesus’s ONE Church are denominations. For starters, there would be no bible as we know today without the Catholic Church. The Bible is a Tradition of the Catholic Church. Without the Councils of the Catholic Church we would not know the Truth and Fullness of Christianity.
The councils of the Catholic Church are the reason for todays confusion amongst Christians. The wisdom of the Church Fathers was anathematised as heresy and replaced by worldly men with Popes, Priests, and Pastors. They extinguished the teaching of mankind by a whole host of Spiritual Messengers that Christ had promised to send to reveal all the things He couldn't reveal during His short Ministry on earth.
Pat B U L L ....
One look at the whole seductive edifice of Roman Catholicism is enough for any honest intelligent person to recognise it is a million miles from the community of faith - the house of God - the family of the regenerate that Jesus brought to birth and is adding to every day.
Catholicism is just a bunch of lies and much deception and has nothing to do with Christ
Roman Catholicism, is a man-made cult invented by Emperor Constantine so he could conquer the known world. That's a historical fact. True Christianity is made up of individuals (lively stones) who believe in Jesus, have the Spirit of Christ dwelling in them, and do what their Lord commands in his holy word. Jesus builds his church, not man. Believers only need the council of God's word. Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Protestants et al have traded God's word for their traditions. They are no better than the Pharisees of old who Jesus rebuked. Repent!
Pie in the Sky Gobbled up by the Masses
there is no place I find in the Bible that says God is three people. God was from the beginning. The Bible says God is a spirit, and they that worship him must worship Him in spirit and truth. Jesus said, when you’ve seen me you’ve seen the father. The Bible says in Him dwelleth all the fullness of the godhead bodily. Jesus was the only person representing The fullness of God. The Bible says that Mary was overshadowed by the Holy Ghost., which makes the Holy Ghost the father of Jesus. This is true, because god is a spirit. The Holy Ghost and the father are the same. The body of Jesus was created in Mary’s womb, and that was his point of beginning as his fleshly dwelling. He was God and he was man. Subject to the Temptations & pain that we all experience yet without sin. it was that flesh that had to be crucified and bleed for our sins, and that is why when our sins are washed away in baptism, it should be in the name of Jesus Christ as Acts 2:38 describes. And whatsoever you do in word or deed do all in the name of Jesus Christ. In doing so we give honor to the father or the spirit of God. Jesus is the door he is the way, and if we go by some other means we are a thief and a robber. I pray for Jesus to speak to every honest heart and to fill them with the beautiful gift of His Spirit.
Just another diluted person.a very sad story.
This argument was completely bias..from a Christian perspective.
It's unfair
Which argument mate? It's just a documentary explaining an influential book.
It’s an exegesis of a book, Lewis was a Christian apologist who came from no faith to deep faith. I am a Roman Catholic this documentary speaks to people like me. If you’re not Christian, and or don’t believe in God, have no faith, why be here, to disparage our beliefs?
20:00 Of course we have a will. However God says its not a good will.