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    In “Mere Christianity”‚ C.S Lewis describes how hard it is to be a good Christian in his statement “now we cannot‚ in that sense‚ discover our failure to keep God’s law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing)” (265). In this statement‚ Lewis is arguing that struggling to be good and having faith in religion takes a tremendous amount of willpower. Faith in religion takes conscious effort because it can become difficult to hold onto faith over time. I can relate this to my own personal

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    In C.S. Lewis’ Abolition of Man the Conditioners are getting rid of their nature and not using it as a standard because they are actually changing that‚ so the only thing they have left is their individual desires. The Conditioners simply just have to follow whatever

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    Unstable Ground “Friendship is unnecessary‚ like philosophy‚ like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”-C.S Lewis. In the preceding quote by C.S Lewis; Mr Lewis explains what friendship does for a person. To paraphrase it in an understandable way‚ he seems to have said; Friendship is not necessary to survive‚ it only enhances life and makes life more interesting. This is my personal viewpoint exactly! Throughout life many

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    The great philosopher C. S. Lewis once wrote: “They say of some temporal suffering‚ ‘No future bliss can make up for it‚’ not knowing that Heaven‚ once attained‚ will work backwards and turn even that agony into glory” (Keller 34). How can agony and suffering be turned into glory? Suffering is a term that is closely related to the concepts of evil and pain. The verb‚ suffer‚ means to undergo or endure. Suffering is linked with the experience of anguish or misery in which humans are aware of the

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    almost this very reasoning that has left humanity wondering about this higher being called God‚ chiefly because there must be something that is able to transcend even the capabilities of even the most intellectual creatures on this planet. As C.S Lewis says in his Abolition of Man‚ “At the moment‚ then of Man’s victory over Nature‚ we find the whole human race

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    The Rival Conceptions of God by C.S. Lewis When you are a Christian you do not need to believe that every other religion is wrong completely. Though if you are an atheist you have to believe that the main point in every religion is completely wrong. Though Christians are free to think that all religions have some aspects of being true. It’s like a math problem‚ there can only be one right answer but there are many answers that are closer than others. Even the dumbest religions have some aspect of

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    C.S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce is a work that showcases the many patterns of denial and rejection that people use to avoid giving their lives to God. Lewis attempts to show the difference between heaven and hell. He does not do this in the literal sense of the places where humanity will be going in eternity. Rather‚ he embodies the figurative sense of heaven and hell which people experience on earth. He focuses on the importance of our earthly decisions in the balance of not only how we spend eternity

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    Lewis argued‚ believing Jesus to be only a good teacher is not an option. Jesus clearly and undeniably proclaimed himself to be the son of God. If He is not God‚ then He is a fabricator‚ and therefore not a prophet‚ moral teacher‚ or godly man. In efforts

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    “Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies‚ let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker” (C.S. Lewis). We need heroes to stand out and help when needed or called to action. Heroes should be people that all cultures/people all over the world can look up to and have a good example no matter how bad their life is. A hero puts others before himself‚ loves to give back and not take‚ and one who stands

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    Just like a woman’s body nourishes her children‚ beauty nourishes the soul. C.S. Lewis said it this way‚ "We do not want merely to see beauty‚ though‚ God knows‚ even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words-to be United with the beauty we see‚ to pass into it‚ to receive into ourselves." (The

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