On Obstinacy in Belief by C.S. Lewis Doodle
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- Опубліковано 2 бер 2024
- "There are cases between us where we should all bless those who have not seen & have believed".
This is an illustration of C.S. Lewis' paper that was read to the Oxford Socratic Club in 1955. Notes below...
You can find the paper published most recently in the following book: www.amazon.com/Screwtape-Prop...
(0:51) "There are two questions the apologist will naturally ask himself [about his private reading].
(1) Have I been 'keeping up', keeping abreast of recent movements in theology?
(2) Have I stood firm (super monstratas vias) [Jer. 6.16, Eph. 4. 14, 1 Cor. 16.13*]
I want to say emphatically that the second question is far the more important of the two. Our upbringing and the whole atmosphere of the world we live in make it certain that our main temptation will be that of yielding to winds of doctrine, not that of ignoring them. We are not at all likely to be hidebound: we are very likely indeed to be the slaves of fashion..." (Lewis, 'Christian Apologetics').
* 'Thus says the LORD': “Stand in the ways and see,
And ask for the old paths, where the good way is,
And walk in it;
Then you will find rest for your souls.
But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
Jeremiah 6.16 ( biblehub.com/jeremiah/6-16.htm )
"...We should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting..."
Ephesians 4.14 ( biblehub.com/ephesians/4-14.htm )
"Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong."
1 Corinthians 16.13 ( biblehub.com/1_corinthians/16... )
(8:33) Apologia: a formal defense especially of one's beliefs, position or actions.
(20:22) “... But Jesus said to them, ‘A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, among his own relatives, and in his own house.’ Now Jesus could do no mighty work there, except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them. And He marveled because of their unbelief." (Mark 6:4-6, biblehub.com/mark/6-4.htm )
(21:06) Ipso facto: "by the fact itself", which means that a specific phenomenon is a direct consequence, a resultant effect, of the action in question, instead of being brought about by a previous action.
(21:48) A priori: literally, "from what is earlier."
(26:02) In Vacuo: in a vacuum or in isolation.
(27:25) This was a fire at the French-Canadian Laurier Palace Theatre in Montreal.
(30:38) "...they overcame him [the accuser of our brethren] by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death" ( biblehub.com/revelation/12-11... ).
The closing music track is from the Easter musical "The Witness" by Jimmy and Carol Owens: • 1. The Witness - The E...
I feel like I need to watch this like 10 times to fully understand
Mr Lewis was on a whole nother level!!
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Wow! CS Lewis never ceases to amaze me.
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Praise God, this could not come at a better time!
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Great Essay!
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Not by might nor by power but by My Spirit says the Lord Almighty - Zachariah 4:6
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The link to that Easter Musical is in the video description.
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Wow
The most striking part to me was "You are no longer faced with an argument which demands your assent, but with a person who demands your confidence." - I find no interest in apologetics or arguing for the existence of God because I already experience and interact with Him as a *Person*. What use is it to debate whether He exists when I know He does, based on internal and external evidence, just as much as I know my friends and family exist?
Lewis talked about apologetics in this essay (of course the arguments are not for his own benefit, but for others): "In the first place, it must be admitted by anyone who accepts Christianity, that an increased interest in it, or even a growing measure of intellectual assent to it, is a very different thing from the conversion of England or even of a single soul. Conversion requires an alteration of the will, and an alteration which, in the last resort, does not occur without the intervention of the supernatural.
I do not in the least agree with those who therefore conclude that the spread of an intellectual (and imaginative) climate favourable to Christianity is useless. You do not prove munition workers useless by showing that they cannot themselves win battles, however proper this reminder would be if they attempted to claim the honour due to fighting men. If the intellectual climate is such that, when a man comes to the crisis at which he must either accept or reject Christ, his reason and imagination are not on the wrong side, then his conflict will be fought out under favourable conditions. Those who help to produce and spread such a climate are therefore doing useful work: and yet no such great matter after all. Their share is a modest one; and it is always possible that nothing - nothing whatever - may come of it.
Far higher than they stands that character whom, to the best of my knowledge, the present Christian movement has not yet produced - the *Preacher* in the full sense, the Evangelist, the man on fire, the man who infects. The propagandist, the apologist, only represents John Baptist: the Preacher represents the Lord Himself. He will be sent - or else he will not. But unless he comes we mere Christian intellectuals will not effect very much. That does not mean we should down tools ('The Decline of Religion’).