Good Infection by C.S. Lewis Doodle (BBC Talk 21, Mere Christianity, Bk 4, Chapter 4)
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- Good infection! A third doodle on the Trinity from the pen of C.S. Lewis looking at the Holy Spirit. “God is Love” but this does not mean “Love is God”. It may not mean that all our feelings of love are necessarily godly...
This is an illustration of C.S. Lewis’ third talk from his fourth radio series called ‘Beyond Personality: Or First Steps in the Doctrine of the Trinity’. This became Chapter 4 of Book 4 in his book called ‘Mere Christianity’...You can find the book here: www.amazon.com/...
(0:06) Tuberculosis (also called consumption) is a potentially serious infectious bacterial disease that mainly affects the lungs & caused widespread public concern in the 19th & early 20th centuries as the disease became more common. In 1815 one in four deaths in England was due to "consumption". In the 1880s the infected poor were "encouraged" to enter sanatoria that resembled prisons.
(4:36) ". . . When people try to get rid of manlike, or, as they are called, 'anthropomorphic,' images, they merely succeed in substituting images of some other kinds. 'I don't believe in a personal God,' says one, 'but I do believe in a great spiritual force.' What he has not noticed is that the word 'force' has let in all sorts of images about winds & tides electricity & gravitation. 'I don't believe in a personal God,' says another, 'but I do believe we are all parts of one great Being which moves & works through us all'-not noticing that he has merely exchanged the image of a fatherly & royal-looking man for the image of some widely extended gas or fluid. A girl I knew was brought up by 'higher thinking' parents to regard God as perfect 'substance.' In later life she realized that this had actually led her to think of Him as something like a vast tapioca pudding. (To make matters worse, she disliked tapioca.) We may feel ourselves quite safe from this degree of absurdity, but we are mistaken. If a man watches his own mind, I believe he will find that what profess to be specially advanced or philosophic conceptions of God are, in his thinking, always accompanied by vague images which, if inspected, would turn out to be even more absurd than the manlike images aroused by Christian theology. For man, after all, is the highest of the things we meet in sensuous experience" (Lewis, Time magazine, 1947).
(6:53) “At this point we must remind ourselves that Christian theology does not believe God to be a person. It believes Him to be such that in Him a trinity of persons is consistent with a unity of Deity. In that sense it believes Him to be something very different from a person, just as a cube, in which six squares are consistent with unity of the body, is different from a square. (Flatlanders, attempting to imagine a cube, would either imagine the six squares coinciding, & thus destroy their distinctness, or else imagine them set out side by side, & thus destroy the unity. Our difficulties about the Trinity are of much the same kind.) (The Poison of Subjectivism).
(6:01) There are some instances where love of self, love of a friend, love of a child, love of a king & love of family had to be rebuked in Scripture to some degree, & these rebukes can still apply today.
See scriptural rebukes of love:
-God's rebukes of self-love ( biblehub.com/j... , biblehub.com/j... )
-God's rebuke of friendship love ( biblehub.com/2... )
-A commanders rebuke of parental love ( biblehub.com/2... )
-God's rebuke of love for a King ( biblehub.com/1... )
-Christ's rebuke of his mother Mary & brothers ( biblehub.com/m... , biblehub.com/l... , or even of maternal bonds when required: biblehub.com/l...)
More on this in Lewis' talk on Agape love: • The Four Loves (‘Agape... (7m 6sec). More from Lewis on making a god of romantic love also: Eros • The Four Loves ('Eros'... (7m 5sec)
(12:04) John 1.1-5 "In the beginning was the Word, & the Word was with God, & the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, & without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, & the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, & the darkness did not comprehend it." biblehub.com/j...
(12:49) Anyone feel like joining a Greek dance line, smashin’ some plates & yelling ‘Opa!/ώπα!’? Music taken from the soundtrack to the ‘The Guns of Navarone’.
The magazine article shows italics as follows (in capitals): "Instead of being ON the table"; “does not come AFTER the cause”; “as if the Father & Son were two THINGS, rather than two persons”; “Love is what one PERSON has for another PERSON…”; "then before the world was made He was NOT love" ; "is a REAL person"; “How could he NOT die…” : "what CAN he do but wither and die?"
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"I asked you just now to imagine those two books...and you had a mental picture," and then CSLewisDoodle drew the physical picture. Thanks for another great video. Keep up the great work!
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Thank you for these videos. As much as I love Lewis, the visuals make it more tangible
I really like this. CS Lewis really does a good job at talking about God, and you my friend do a great job at illustrating his words.
Best explanation of the trinity I've ever seen.
First comment? No way!
It was the best start of the day, sipping my cup of tea and getting ready for work.
Thank you! A bit of Lewis always builds me up. He was really used by God for the good of us common people
Watching from South Africa. God bless you for your hard work to make these doodles for free for everyone!
The words of Lewis and your clever animation of the themes continue to develop a deeper, truer understanding of Christianity for me. Many thanks for taking the time to educate a searching mind.
Great work! This will be of help to many
Thanks for this upload, been struggling a lot with questions of faith, and this video showed up in my recommended just when I needed it. Keep up with the great work!
A huge thank you for these amazing doodles incorporating the wonderful, inspiring and great works of the highly educated and talented C S Lewis. A true servant of God.
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CSLD, You never fail to astound me with these magnificent presentations, I look forward to them so much. The research you must involve yourself in to construct just one, never mind as many as you have done thus far, must involve you in so, so much effort and dedication. May the good God bless you.
The trinity has always confused me in some way or another. Now it is crystal clear! Thank you
Thank you for another video.
Excellent, as always.
Amazing as always, these are phenomenal talks by C.S. Lewis & you really help me understand & stay focused on them with the doodles.
Very on point around 6:20.
Thank you! Let's keep dancing! That's joy....it is infectious!! Needed this today.
A very clear and true reflection.
Outstanding exposition.... Marvelous experience
Awesome work. Thank you!
Another great video! This is one of my favorite subjects to talk about because of its inherent mystery, and I believe that Lewis does a great job of expounding on it while acknowledging how difficult it is for our minds to truly comprehend it.
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Thank you! Love these!
Love the dance music it’s quite infectious😁
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When they say God is love, but they mean love is god
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Quite interesting and thoughtful.
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You deserve so many more views on all your videos. Thank you for what you do. So many great ponderings!
Thank you so much for still continuing to create these amazing illustrations to compliment CS Lewis's profound works. God bless!
These are absolutely brilliant
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Thanks for this. I like how CSL makes one think. I also enjoy the doodles. Keep up the good work.
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You have an excellent sense of humor and wisdom my friend! 😁 Thanks for the doodle!
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Thank you so much for making these. C. S. Lewis is such a visual writer and your illustrations are beautiful and powerful.
Excellent!
This is a good explanation of the eternality of Christ. Also if God begot Jesus, like CS Lewis said Jesus must be of the same kind, the same nature as the Father but that means Jesus has to be eternal otherwise He can't be of the same nature as the Father who is eternal. Meaning God cannot beget at a later time, because to beget means to produce something of the same nature but if something comes into being it cannot be of the same nature as God, because Hes eternal.
Amazing as usual.
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Amazing presentation
Love the Price of Egypt reference :)
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I explain it a bit differently, but not nearly as well. 👍
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