Chapter 5.  We Have Cause to be Uneasy

a.  Repentance is the Smartest thing

b.  What the Moral Law says to Us

c.  Christianity only has answers for the sick

Book II      What Christians Believe

Chapter 1.  The Rival Conceptions of God

1.  What do Christians believe?

a. They believe in one creator God

(along with Jews and Moslems)...as opposed to atheist (which believe the world to be only material)

 b.  They believe in a transcendent God (not a pantheistic god)

2.  What do you think?

 Lewis writes,

 “I have been asked to tell you what Christians believe and I am going to begin by telling you one thing that Christians do not need to believe.  

If you are a Christian, you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through.”  (II.1.1)

Chapter 2.  The Invasion

 Christianity is not...

          a.  simple like atheism

          b.  simple like a “Nice Guy God”

c.  dualism   (the endless struggle between two equal powers in the universe)

  What Christianity is like...

           “Enemy-occupied territory-–that is what this world is.  Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in a great campaign of sabotage”. (II.2.12)

Book II.  What Christians Believe

Chapter 3.  The Shocking Alternative

A.  A Universe of People with free will

i.  Allows the possibility of loving someone freely

ii.  The freedom to obey must be worth the price of folks rebelling

iii.  Putting ones self first the essence of the rebellion

Thought: Theology is loving God with my mind.

I.5 Here five chapters of thinking condenses....there is no use giving people the comfort of Christianity unless they are willing to face its terror.  The good news is only for sick people.

a.

b.  "you find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the universe in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built. I.5.2)

c. "If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you not get either comfort or truth-only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair. (I.5.4)

Romans 3: 19 "...whatever the law says...that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty ('held accountable' NIV) before God."

My Thoughts

Transcendent God stands outside the universe and created it.

Pantheistic God is dwelling inside the creation (trees, animals, wood) making them holy like God.