 Re: C.S. Lewis on Non-Fundamentalist Christianity
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Originally Posted by Felicity  You refer to the gospels as being "a literal truth, or they are a fraud and an immoral one at that." I don't think what Lewis was saying really should be extended to the gospels--he was talking about the man Jesus.
If Jesus were a fraud, yes--he'd be a lunatic or immoral as Lewis states, but the gospels are the result of those who believed Him and I don't think it's fair to call them immoral. What I mean is, if Jesus were a fraud, the people who were sincere in their belief would not be guilty of anything but poor judgement. | I'll have to pick up a copy of Mere Christianity to quote the context of it, but what I understood him to mean was that either the gospels were an accurate account of what really happened to the son of god (which he believes) or if he were not then the gospels (as an account of his acts) would be a fraud and to regard him as merely a great moral teacher is something that he did not leave up to us.
I do not think he meant that the followers of a false-god would be then rendered immoral, only the fraud of his ministry would have been (being a scapegoat for the atonement of sins.) Quote: |
You could still find value in what they perceived and testified to in the Gospels.
| No doubt about that at all, I myself utility in the bible.
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Last edited by Lachean : 07-07-08 at 09:07 PM.
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