"If there is 'Something Behind', then either it will have to remain altogether unknown to men or else make itself known in some different way." The origins of the Earth, Life, and our existence is something that we can hypothesize about but can never prove through science. We rock back and forth and some of us take up a creationist argument and others take up an evolutionary standpoint and yet few us look to within for answers. The one thing that we know more about than anything else is Man.
We realize that there is a moral law which stands above us and entreats us to follow it but also gives us a choice. This chapter focuses on that entity that gives us the law. Since we are just a small piece of this large puzzle and because the moral law cannot be explained by math and science we are forced to luck inward into ourselves for answers. Lewis punches holes in many of the what some self proposed "Enlightened" people have come to adopt as Creative Evolution. This view says that a creator Created and then took his hand off and life evolved. If they say that this creator consisted of a mind then they are back to the creationist standpoint, and if they say that there is no mind, then it is impossible to explain this feeling of what we "Ought" to do.
The fact remains that each of us have been given the gift by a creator. A living instruction manual for what he wishes for us. All have fallen short of this, but what a feeling to know that He hasn't abandoned us. He is WITH us. Now. Right Now. As you read this blog, He is with you. He loves you so much that he is there for you, showing you how to live so that he might prosper you and use you to reach others.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
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Great summary, Mark. I'm only on chapter 3, but I love this book. I wish I had learned back in high school to use logic the way Lewis does. He makes excellent points and his illustrations are perfect.
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