March 23: Mere Christianity: Book II, Chapters 3-5
On Sunday, March 23, 4:00-5:30 p.m., we'll continue our discussion of Mere Christianity with Book II, "What Christians Believe," Chapters 3-5.
BOOK II: Chapter 3, paragraph 13:
A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell, You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.
BOOK II: Chapter 4, paragraph 3:
The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.
BOOK II: Chapter 5, paragraph 6:
But the Christian thinks any good he does comes from the Christ-life inside him. He does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us; just as the roof of a greenhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, but becomes bright because the sun shines on it.
Mere Christianity has a preface and four books, each of which has chapters.
Joel Heck's resource page has his Mere Christianity: Uncommon Truth in Common Language ppt available as a download. The ppt is an excellent introduction to the study of Mere Christianity, explaining its title, influence, and characteristics.
Pints With Jack has a Mere Christianity resource page with links to quotation graphics, commentary, podcasts, and videos, including a C. S. Lewis Institute lecture series with Chris Mitchell.
Central Texas C. S. Lewis is a reading group that meets in Austin, Texas.
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