GOD, LIFE, BATTLEFIELD

My friend and I are discussing Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis.  His writings stimulate fascinating conversation about basic life issues, both for now and eternity.


Chapter 1 
There are two different people in this world.  Those who believe in God and those who don't.  And those who believe in God don't believe in the same kind of God.  There are those who believe that God is nature and if the universe ceased to exist, god would go out of existence. 

And there are those who believe in one God, separate and apart from the universe and in fact, the One who created the universe. 

Chapter 2
There is a movement to oversimplify Christianity into a religion that worships a good and just God, not the God Lewis thinks is the true one. Lewis argues nothing in the universe is simple, so God cannot be simple either. His point is that God, although good, created something that turned bad. Actually, two things: the devil and humankind. 

And speaking of humankind.  First, all over the earth, there is this curious idea that human beings ought to behave in a certain way.   Secondly, that they do not in fact behave in that way. They know the Law of Nature; they break it. These two facts are the foundation of all clear thinking about ourselves and the universe we live in.

There are two powers at the back of everything in life, one of them good and the other bad, and this universe is the battlefield in which they fight out an endless war.