C.S. Lewis: The Story of His Journey to Faith and Christian Apologist

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  @jacQuilling · 5 years ago

  I have a poster on my wall quoted by C.S. Lewis: "I believe in God as I believe the sun has risen, not because I see it, but because by way of it, I can see everything else".

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• VE

  @veronicaspencelocke2003 · 4 years ago (edited)

  This was a really interesting interview for me! I have loved C.S. Lewis since I was a child reading “The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe” series, then graduating to “The Screwtape Letters”, “Mere Christianity” “Surprised by Joy” “The Abolition of Man” and so on. He’s been a big influence on me, and what a great and influential man of God he became - from being ‘an awful person’! 😊 I love how he put it  “It was like waking up” Beautiful! Our God is an awesome God!!

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• CO

  @coopahtroopah1175 · 5 years ago

  I had Dr. Poe in undergrad at Union University, and let me tell y’all, I love this man. Absolutely brilliant, warm and friendly, an excellent storyteller, and quite hilarious. Thrilled to hear him talk here about C.S. Lewis!

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• SA

  @SandyCheeks1896 · 4 years ago

  I’ve had a very similar spiritual journey to CS Lewis. He wrote Mere Christianity for people just like me and it shook me to my core.

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• HH

  @hhstark8663 · 5 years ago (edited)

  Wow! I had no idea how hard-core C.S. Lewis was in his atheism. <br> <br>He was basically just like former hard-core atheist Anthony Flew (who coincidentally also adopted the theistic worldview, though at a much older age, which he outlines in the book <b>&quot;There is a god&quot;</b> ).<br><i>_____________________</i><br>Journey of Lewis: (Atheistic) materialism -&gt; Logical positivism -&gt; Moral realism -&gt; Idealism -&gt; Pantheism -&gt; Theism -&gt; Christian theism

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• TE

  @terraloft · 5 years ago (edited)

  To discuss, and even choose disengagement without canceling another&apos;s path &quot;even if you disagree with him you have to interact with him&quot; well stated Poe

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• KH

  @khanyamnisi8028 · 5 years ago

  Hi Sean, please could you one day organize a similar talk as this but discussing the life of Fyodor Dostoevsky.

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• SP

  @SpaceCadet4Jesus · 3 years ago

  C.S. Lewis (Clive Staples Lewis) facts:<br><br>Born in 1898 in Belfast, Ireland, he had an older brother of 3 years (Warnie).<br>British writer and Anglican (Church of England) lay theologian.<br>Held academic positions at Oxford and Cambridge teaching Medieval and Renaissance literature<br>He was part of an informal literary group called &quot;the Inklings&quot; consisting of CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, Charles Williams, Hugo Dyson and Owen Barfield among a group of 12 regular members<br><br>LIFE PAINS:<br>At age 4, his dog Jacksie was killed by a car<br>At age 9 his mother died from cancer<br>After age 9, he was enrolled in a boarding school, where his older brother had been enrolled 3 years earlier but the school shortly failed necessitating a change in schools.<br>He experienced respiratory problems at the next boarding school necessitating another change of school and of course friends.<br>At age 15, while at the 3rd school, he found the school socially competitive and had to leave, being tutored privately.<br>It was at the inquiring age of 15 he abandoned Christianity and became an atheist.<br>At age 58, he married another writer 17 years younger &nbsp;(Joy Davidman) but she died of cancer 4 years later.<br><br>ATHEISM:<br>During the next 17 years of atheism, he developed a fascination in European Mythology (Norse and Greek) and the Occult, loving Irish literature and mythology.<br><br>From his 17th to his 20th year, he was part of the British Army and fought in the First World War. In that war, he was wounded and two colleagues were killed by friendly fire.<br>During recovery of his war wounds, he became depressed and homesick and he was reassigned to another location and left service shortly after.<br><br>Lewis said that the Roman poet and philosopher Titus Lucretius has one the strongest arguments for atheism in Latin as poetically translated &quot;Had God designed the world, it would not be / A world so frail and faulty as we see.&quot; In a literal translation it reads, That in no wise the nature of all things / For us was fashioned by a power divine – / So great the faults it stands encumbered with.&quot;<br><br>Lewis said, the horrors of war, the loss of his mother and his unhappiness in school were the basis of his pessimism and atheism.<br><br>CONVERSION TO CHRISTIANITY:<br>At age 32, after repeated long conversations with JRR Tolkien and Hugo Dyson and by reading the works of Scottish writer George MacDonald and G.K. Chesterton, Lewis reluctantly and dejectedly knelt and prayed accepting God as God. His conversion to Christianity, joining the Church of England and Anglican theology lasted to his death.<br><br> C.S. Lewis died of kidney failure in 1963, one week prior to his 65th birthday, on the day of the assassination of John F. Kennedy (22 November 1963) and the death of Aldous Huxley (author of the Brave New World).

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• TE

  @terrygodgirl4430 · 4 years ago

  Just finished Screwtape letters, wow, just wow. I praise the Lord for the perspective

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• JU

  @judithhuntington4386 · 5 years ago

  Really enjoyed this interview and the information and background on CS Lewis - Thanks!

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• VI

  @VictorGonzalez-fx3mc · 5 years ago

  Amen and Amén by this exposition. God bless you in the name of Lord Christ Jesús. From Venezuela ... Caracas.

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• GO

  @GodFamilyHonorCountry · 4 years ago

  Love CS Lewis! &nbsp; Such a beautiful imagination, &nbsp;deep thinker, and powerful apologetics!

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