Mere Christianity
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Oct 29, 2026
Mike SchmitzHOST
If they carry out their duty honorably, they truly contribute to the common good of the nation and the maintenance of peace.
Mike SchmitzHOST
In fact, there's a quote from Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis that I really love because it highlights the difference between fighting against your neighbor in war and hating your neighbor in war.
Mike SchmitzHOST
It's a big difference.
Mike SchmitzHOST
C.S. Lewis says this.
James BoiceHOST
Now nobody has written about that more effectively in modern times than C.S. Lewis.
James BoiceHOST
C.S. Lewis made it the basis for that very popular book that is well deserved in its popularity, Mere Christianity.
James BoiceHOST
People who read that are sometimes beguiled by the simplicity and clarity with which C.S. Lewis writes.
James BoiceHOST
It sounds like it's just a simple new idea that nobody's ever thought of before.
Joe FolleyGUEST
I have a tendency to ramble.
Joe FolleyGUEST
But for example, I'm put in mind of C.S. Lewis's discussion at the beginning of Mere Christianity, I think it is.
Joe FolleyGUEST
where he talks about the use of the term Christian.
Joe FolleyGUEST
He says that we can't have Christian just mean something like ethically sound or ethically good.
Kerry HardyGUEST
Thanks for having me.
Emily CurtisHOST
You know, when you spoke this sermon, I think it was one of those sermons, I always love all the sermons you preach, and I love going through the book of Romans especially, but this sermon just had so much comfort in it.
Emily CurtisHOST
that I just felt people need to hear this.
Emily CurtisHOST
They need this content.
Kerry HardyGUEST
Yeah,
Emily CurtisHOST
he's definitely one of my favorites.
Emily CurtisHOST
And he says in his book, Mere Christianity, which if you haven't read Mere Christianity, read Mere Christianity.
Emily CurtisHOST
It will completely change your perspective on things.
Mark HudsonHOST
So which is it? And that's kind of what that's what C.S.
Mark HudsonHOST
Lewis gets at in mere Christianity when he's talking about.
Mark HudsonHOST
I don't remember exactly how he puts it, but he's saying, you know, his his problem as an atheist was he was saying that there's so much injustice in the world and that's why he was an atheist.
Mark HudsonHOST
But then he started to realize that really kind of the Greg Bonson, by what standard am I even saying that there's injustice? Like, like, how do I even square those things? Hey, welcome back to Campfire Apologetics.
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Mark HudsonHOST
But you just said that nothing matters and there is no right and wrong.
Mark HudsonHOST
So which is it? And that's kind of what...
Mark HudsonHOST
That's what C.S. Lewis gets at in Mere Christianity when he's talking about, I don't remember exactly how he puts it, but he's saying his problem as an atheist was he was saying that there's so much injustice in the world and that's why he was an atheist.
Mark HudsonHOST
But then he started to realize that really kind of the Greg Bonson, by what standard am I even saying that there's injustice? Like how do I even square those things together as an atheist? I say there's injustice, but I don't have a grounds for saying that justice is even a thing or that it's a good thing.
Jonny WalkerGUEST
Reason being that eleven seconds earlier, another runner named Sebastian Sawe beat him to it.
Jonny WalkerGUEST
His name getting recorded in the history books as the first person to ever run a marathon in under two hours in a time of one hour, fifty-nine minutes and thirty seconds.
Jonny WalkerGUEST
How does that make you feel? If you're anything like me, you'll feel a bit bad for Yomif.
Jonny WalkerGUEST
What a shame.
W. Bryan HubbardGUEST
He wrote The Chronicles of Narnia.
W. Bryan HubbardGUEST
He wrote Mere Christianity.
W. Bryan HubbardGUEST
He wrote a book called The Screwtape Letters.
W. Bryan HubbardGUEST
He was a great thinker.
MattHOST
I read a quote to you last week.
MattHOST
Not that I've reread Mere Christianity, but it's a great book, just to let you know.
MattHOST
Uh, C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, this is a great, [laughs] this is a great way that he said it, 'cause he's much smarter than me.
MattHOST
Uh, he said, "Every faculty that you have, your power of thinking or of moving your limbs from moment to moment, is given to you by God." Right? So everything, your brain, your limbs, everything.
MattHOST
"If you devoted every minute of your, or moment of your life, whole life, exclusively to His service, you could not give Him anything that was not, in a sense, His own already." Right? Like, like this is his very smart way of saying the same thing I said in three words.
CamGUEST
And so God's saying it's not a mistake that you're here.
CamGUEST
C.S. Lewis describes this concept in his book, Mere Christianity.
CamGUEST
He says, Christianity thinks of human individuals not as mere members of a group or items on a list, but actually as organs in a body, different from one another, yet each contributing what the other could not.
CamGUEST
You are all different organs intended to do different things.
Kyle ThompsonHOST
We got to wrap this up.
Kyle ThompsonHOST
So would it be fair to say that you two fundamentally reject what C.S. Lewis said in Mere Christianity that a world full of automatons would be a world not worth creating? Is that
RussellPANELIST
fair? No, I wouldn't reject that because I don't think there's anything about Tulip that makes any of us robots.
RussellPANELIST
Yeah.
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