I seriously enjoyed reading this short essay by C.S. Lewis! It was so good to hear someone, not LDS, look at religion in a very similar way to how it actually is. He was definitely writing in the genre of persuasive.
His purpose for writing this essay was to take take the information he has mentally gathered about the basics of religion and display them in a convincing manner to the reason, in hopes of persuading them to accept that there must be a Christ and an opposing force that originally came from good.
Lewis was once an atheist and can therefor empathize very well with them. He understands why people would reject the truth but also understands how stupid they’re being. He assumes that most people that do not believe in God are looking at it logically and therefor attacks from that angle.
Lewis spent most of his writing on the topic of God verses Devil. He writes about how the devil can not be an independent force of evil. Evil cannot not, itself, independently exist. just as darkness without light never could have been discovered. Evil is the lack of good. Good things sought after in the wrong way.
Lewis uses several analagies in this piece to further explain his examples. One being; how can someone not see something and realize that if they have never seen anything before? They can’t! it makes no sense to them. It’s essentially incomprehensible. A blind man form birth will never understand or miss sight. If there were no right and wrong, no law, no sin, no God, then we would not be able to comprehend that those things are or were missing. BUT WE CAN comprehend these things. the simple fact that we’re debating over this topic proves itself! he uses many such analogies. He uses a lot of logic to prove his ideas and does it well.
All in all I really enjoyed his writing and I agree with what his is saying. I kinda of wish I could send him a Book of Mormon!
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