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1 | CS Lewis views some of Bible OT as myth | Bible general Archive 1 | JMHO | 31455 | ||
C.S. Lewis Believes portions of the bible O.T. are myth??? I have read some of his more familiar works: "Mere Christianity", "Screwtape Letters" etc He stuck me as an orthodox evangelical, so I was SHOCKED when reading the book: "C.S. Lewis On Scripture" Lewis says: "the question about Jonah and the great fish does not turn simply on intrinsic probability. The point of the whole book Book of Jonah has to me the air of being a moral romance, a quite different thing from, say the account of the King David or the New Testament Narratives, not pegged like them into any historical situation" He feels the same way about Job, Ester, and some Psalms. (and the Creation, but for other reasons). My church leaders quotes CS Lewis a LOT and their literalists. Again, I was surprised and I wanted to see if others were has Shocked as me??? |
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2 | CS Lewis views some of Bible OT as myth | Bible general Archive 1 | Hank | 31456 | ||
JMHO, your revelation about C.S.Lewis' views on certain scriptural books and passages is something that I was not aware of, though it comes as no particular shock to me to hear it. Years ago I led a summer seminar of college undergraduates in a survey of some of Lewis' works, notably Screwtape. Lewis is very quotable and I too from time to time hear a Lewis quote from some of my Baptist friends -- or give them one. Lewis was, after all, Anglican in church affiliation and it comes as no real surprise to hear that he may have viewed as fiction certain Scripture that some of us more "literalists" view as fact. Nontheless, I feel about C.S.Lewis much the same as a Baptist preacher who met Lewis one day as a guest in Lewis' home. After the meeting, the Baptist said of Lewis, "The man smokes, he takes a drink now and then, but in spite of all that, I do believe the man is a Christian!" --Hank | ||||||
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