Mere Christianity

Disclosure: I'm a convinced atheist who read this book to try to understand religious belief. In Book One (there are four "Books"), Lewis makes a pretty good case for religion and belief in a deity through a well worded argument from morality. In Book Two, he tries to apply this to the Christian religion, specifically, and the reasoning falters, mainly because of an excessive use of parables and assumptions about the divinity of Christ. In Book Three, the parables are even less connected to the matter at hand (Christian behaviour), and the sort of morality Lewis is arguing for was outdated even in 1940s Britain. Book Four makes more or less no sense to me as a non-Christian, and Lewis even acknowledges and almost apologises for that. All that came off as rather negative, but that is because I disagree with most of the main points of the book. It is still a well written and thought-provoking read, one that certainly opened me up a bit more to understanding the religious ideas of others, even if it wasn't even close to convincing me to convert. The language is simple but not dumbed down, so I imagine it would be fit for reading by almost anyone.

Well I like Cs Lewis because of his testimony and understanding of Christian faith and the Bible but this feedback is also for Joseph Goss - If a man is already convinced and comfortable with a lie that there is no God and the reason behind that is the he wants to live in wicked and self willed way, there is no text or argument that can convince Him. In case of Cain, God himself was speaking to him but yet he did not listen why? Because when devil has entered a man's heart it is impossible to save him. Now Cain cannot say there was no God but that he just did not want to listen.

A fresh and deep look into what humanity is invited into; a New Humanity through the Son of God, who is the risen Jesus Christ. . . . I highly recommend it for you. Read it!