Jay Adams on reconciling God and evil. Simply this: God controls all things, even the existence and activity of evil. We must remove the word “allows” when speaking of God and evil. He doesn’t merely allow evil to occur. If so, there would be another power, or force, in the universe as great as (or …
Referring to Ephesians 5:25-33, Lewis observes the following: The husband is the head of the wife just in so far as he is to her what Christ is to the Church. He is to love her as Christ loved the Church—read on -and gave his life for her (Ephesians 5:25). This headship, then, is most …
In Mere Christianity, Lewis warns about over simplifying Christianity (something some people who call themselves Christians sometimes do) and the straw man that Atheists often build from this. Very well then, atheism is too simple. And I will tell you another view that is also too simple. It is the view I call Christianity-and-water, the …
There are some great quotes in the Screwtape letters. I posted a few on Wednesday, but I wanted to share one more. The Screwtape letters are a series of letters written by a senior demon to a junior demon penned by Lewis and released in 1941. The senior demon is mentoring his young apprentice …
While reading C.S. Lewis’ “The Screwtape letters” in chapter 12, I came across the advice of the demon Screwtape about repentance and sin for the believer: And while he thinks that, we do not have to contend with the explicit repentance of a definite, fully recognised, sin, but only with his vague, though uneasy, feeling that …
C. S. Lewis’ 1938 Sci-Fi novel Out of the Silent Planet chronicles the voyage of three men, two of whom are partnering for their own reasons and a lone philologist on a walking tour who happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and won’t be missed if he disappears. Weston and …
While C. S. Lewis didn’t regard his books as allegories (as Bunyan did with Pilgrims Progress), but there are enough parallels in them between the gospel and some of the events for them to be useful to parents to teach the gospel to their children. The vividness of the books (to say nothing of the …
It’s always a joy to read biographies. Its an even bigger joy to read autobiographies where the author explains their conversion to Christ. Last week I read “Surprised by Joy” by C. S. Lewis. Last Monday I posted a synopsis of his conversion from atheism to Christianity, but I also wanted to follow this up with …