Summary Of Myth Became Fact

Ramsey Smith
9/7/16
“Myth Became Fact” Essay “Myth Became Fact” begins with Corineus proposing that the essence of historic Christianity is unable to be grasped by any modern Christian because it is so brutally real that modernists have dropped important aspects of the faith, therefore, no one is Christian whatsoever. In contrast, C.S. Lewis does not agree with Corineus in the fact that everyone who claims to be a Christian does not follow the historic, foundational principles of the Christian faith. C.S. Lewis gives the illustration of refusing to cut the umbilical cord of a living child from a dead mother at the last moment. He is trying to explain that Christians will sometimes live their lives in accordance with how a Christian is expected to live until the last moment when they decide to not continue living for God.
He says the dilemma is: “either to taste and not to know or to know and not to taste” and “once pain stops, what do I know about pain?”. Lewis is portraying that you can’t fully remember what a past event was like after it is over because you aren’t physically feeling the pain you felt before, until you feel it again. Next, Lewis uses the story of Orpheus and Eurydice as an example of things thought of as only abstract becoming concrete. Before turning around, Orpheus thought that Eurydice disappearing was only an imaginable, abstract thought, however, it took Eurydice physically disappearing for Orpheus to understand an abstract principle becoming a concrete action in a moment, even though it was too late to save her. Therefore, you can only fully experience the meaning of an abstraction in reality while it is concrete because after it is over, it becomes abstract