This is an amazing perspective on the Christian faith written by C.S. Lewis. The outlook presented is amazing while he gives a genre of persuasive as well as personal experience. He begins by telling that he was raised an atheist but then converted to Christianity later in life which totally switched his perspective of God and his creations. The purpose of this was to show how the world looks at Christianity and to show what people are thinking about what Christians believe and what they look at. He gives an amazing message by putting the perspectives of good versus evil into play such as telling that if someone is only exposed to evil and can never really be revealed to good, he can never really tell the difference and only sees evil as good. He also talks about God and his creation of the earth and all that is in it and also gave everything and everyone free will which persuades the reader to think that even if something is bad, it had the choice to be that way. After reading this argument and persuasion, it seems that C.S. Lewis was leaning a lot towards how the world has so many views of Christianity and even if you are to bring up a subject that you think is not true, there is always someone to counter-attack that argument. According to this it seems his world view is shifted a lot towards everybody has their own ideas and should support it all the way and that God has given us agency. He then brings up the New Testament and the example of the evils and murmuring of evils in it to support his ideas of evil and good. I personally believe that this is true in many ways that the world has so many different views and some even have a lot of truth in them.
Yeah this was definitely a very persuasive paper. I think mostly because we get to see his point of view before and after his conversion. It’s crazy to think he was an atheist before and now is so adamantly a Christian. I really like all of his arguments because he explains how different groups of believers are incorrect, and he knows it because of personal experience. The whole idea that he has been there and done that makes what he says that much more convincing. Plus the logic he uses is easy enough that anyone could understand it, and if they really think about it, it really is true. I thought it was interesting how his world view of peoples general beliefs of God sort of came out of the paper, but it wasn’t too obvious, just apparent. Really good reading, I think we should convert this guy as soon as possible.
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