Wednesday, 16 April 2014

C.S. Lewis on Christianity God: A Critical Distinction

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C.S. Lewis on Christianity God: A Critical Distinction

Posted: 15 Apr 2014 10:19 AM PDT

As you read this, read slowly, mindfully and imaginatively:

"All sorts of people are fond of repeating the Christian statement that 'God is love.' But they seem not to notice that the words 'God is love' have no real meaning unless God contains at least two Persons. Love is something that one person has for another person. If God was a single person, then before the world was made, He was not love.

Of course, what these people mean when they say that God is love is often something quite different: they really mean 'Love is God.' They really mean that our feelings of love, however and whatever they arise, and whatever results they produce, are to be treated with great respect. Perhaps they are: but that is something quite different from what Christians mean by the statement 'God is love.' They believe that the living, dynamic activity of love has been going on in God forever and has created everything else.

And that, by the way, is perhaps the most important difference between Christianity and all other religions: that in Christianity God is not static thing – not even a person – but a dynamic, pulsating activity, a life, almost a kind of drama. Almost, if you will not think me irreverent, a kind of dance"

(Excerpted quote from Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis. Sell your text books and buy this book!)

THINK BIG. START SMALL. GO DEEP.