C.S. Lewis and “Mere Christianity”: The Invasion
A “Simple” Religion Have you ever met someone who complains that if Christianity really was true that it wouldn’t contain so many complicated, hard to understan...
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C.S. Lewis and “Mere Christianity”: Rival Conceptions of God
We now come to “Book Two” of Mere Christianity. If you remember, “Book One” simply made the case that if there is a “Something/Someone” behind the natural unive...
Ken Ham’s Hermeneutic in Action: His Rejection of John Walton
Even though Ken Ham may say that the intent of good Bible interpretation is to get to the original, intended meaning of a text, he in fact does not do that. In ...
The Hermeneutics of Ham, and His Wrong Idea of “Authority”
When it gets right down to it, the main problem with Ken Ham, Answers in Genesis, and the entire young earth creationist movement, does not have to do with thei...
Ken Ham’s Claims that there is No Evidence to Support Evolution
The young earth creationism of Ken Ham is a confusing, muddled mess of illogic and purposeful deception in regards to the Bible, Church History, and Science…and...
C.S. Lewis and Mere Christianity: We Have Cause to be Uneasy
In Book 1:5 of Mere Christianity, in his chapter entitled, “We Have Cause to be Uneasy,” Lewis wraps up the main argument of Book One. He begins by anticipating...
C.S. Lewis and “Mere Christianity”: The Moral Law
The very concept of some sort of “moral law” can be somewhat problematic, and can easily be twisted into a kind of fundamentalist legalism that sees all life an...
Holy Ham, Ken! E.T. is an Atheist!
Let me say right off the bat, the title is misleading. Ken Ham does not think E.T., that adorable alien from the 1982 movie, is an atheist. No—Ken Ham believes ...
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis: The Moral Law… “To Hell With Your Standard!”
We now begin our adventure into C.S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity. It seems that too many times well-meaning Christians immediately “go to the Bible” to try to conv...
C.S. Lewis and “Mere Christianity”
C.S. Lewis: The Man Most Americans, when they hear the name “C.S. Lewis,” immediately think of “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” from his children’s serie...