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Letter-writing professor reluctantly hounded by heaven : Comments

By Greg Clarke, published 14/10/2008

C.S. Lewis' letters reveal a bruised and open heart that was thoroughly and painfully explored by the God he came, reluctantly, to believe in.

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Thanks. Your article reminded me of the pleasure I got from (accidentally) reading "The Screwtape Letters" all of 40 years ago. What insights Lewis provided in this classic satire on Christianity, not to mention sins like greed and selfishness (Screwtape, Toadpipe, Wormwood - all wonderful characters).

Recommended reading if you can find a copy. This slim book seems suited to our times once again.
Posted by Spikey, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 11:19:46 AM
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I find trying to read the "apologetics" of C S Lewis a painfully boring experience. Although I do like The Screwtape Letters.

And besides which none of his presumptions about the "truth" of christianism are true--it is all conjecture and fabrication.
What could the phrases " the resurrection of jesus" and "jesus died for our sins" possibly point to that is any sense real in 2008?

Did anybody REALLY witness any of the things "described" in the Bible?
None of the scriptures were written by people who actually met or spoke to Jesus of Galilee.

Lewis is also highly over-rated. He wrote at a time when there was still not much wide-spread knowledge of the other "great" religions and their Sacred Texts (although there was a growing body of scholarly and academic research into these other traditions---even scholarly journals). Especially compared to now when the entire Great Tradition of humankind is freely available to everyone.

He also lived in the smug insular "world" of an English "university" which was still very much steeped in the bogus presumptions about the "superiority" of Western culture altogether. And which had also thoroughly embedded or entangled in the secular/materialist paradigm for at least 150 years---Nietzsche's "god is dead" statement.

Most if not all of his current admirers, are advocates of dim-witted exoteric "religious" provincialism. And also the notion that christianism is the one "true faith", with the corollary being that all other faith systems are inherently false or exercises in delusion, and hence need to be converted to the one "true" way.

These two references give an inkling of the inherent motive of the heart to find something more than the usual consolations offered by the usual standard meat-body, or humpty dumpty philosophy and "theology".

All of which is written by "sinners" or those, who by their very self-confession, admit that they are dissociated from the Divine Radiance and are hence full of doubt.

To be a "sinner" (hopeful or otherwise) is to infinintely godless, despite and contrary to any collection of hopeful words, however cleverly written.

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Posted by Ho Hum, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 12:42:55 PM
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"none of the scriptures were written by people who actually met or spoke to Jesus of Galillee"...?

How about Matthew, John (Johns Gospel and The Revelation) and Peter (1 and 2 Peter) and James.

All saw him and met him and spoke to him.
Posted by Gibo, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 1:42:08 PM
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The four gospels were written accounts of verbal accounts of verbal accounts of verbal accounts of verbal accounts etc. No writings exist from the lifetime of Jesus.

"...the record of their correspondence is a precious guide to Lewis’s celebrated spiritual journey towards admitting that God is God..."

An admission of his belief, perhaps, not the fact. Why do religionists assume otherwise?
Posted by bennie, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 2:09:21 PM
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I will take it as TRUTH, everything that is said in The Word because I have The Holy Spirit (The Comforter) living within me and HE Confirms all scripture as TRUTH...i.e. "All scripture is inspired by God"...2 Timothy 3:16.

We have to become born again (John 3:3) to grasp that the Bible is the truth...though some will acccept it without being born again.

Take Moses.
He wasnt there at the Beginning but is Given the task of writing the account of the Beginning later on under The Power of The Holy Spirit.

God sits Him down... and The Holy Spirit Moves him to write the account.

God sits the writers down... and The Spirit Moves up them to write the accounts.
Thats mighty different than passed down stories.
Posted by Gibo, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 2:58:46 PM
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Posted by bennie, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 3:08:35 PM
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