C.S. Lewis BIO by Blog Rube

"C.S." is used by this author as an acronym for, "Common Sense." Mr. Lewis’ move from atheism to Christianity is a subject he wrote much about and his missives still have the brainy and prideful (both Christian’s by mere label, and those who straightaway state God is nonexistent) in utter fluxing bedevilment. C.S. Lewis was unquestionably a brilliant thinker, prolific writer, and surrendered seeker who followed Christ and it is because of his imagination in tandem with scholastic wherewithal that firmed his convictions of Christ being God-Man.

Mr. Lewis’ uncommon ability actually tapped into the common part of human sense which was routinely abandoned by academia. Lewis' intellectual counterparts seemingly couldn't compete with his command of the King's English that he sought to keep simple. Lewis thought little of those who professed their intellectually enlightened state of mind. Such folks confused what the most callow of children could easily communicate with common words and compelling implications about God's renowned and present reality.

C.S. Lewis convinced both the agnostic and atheist that their assaultive arguments against God clearly suggested that such strongly peculiar opposition confirmed God's providential presence. As a matter of question:

‘Why, Sir, are you emotionally strained and under clear duress over an issue, called God, for which you assert does not exist? Isn’t your science and intelligence blended with your right thinking take all emotion and sharp anger out of all tête-à-tête regarding God?’

Very simply, one had not an argument against nothingness unless this nothingness was truly something over which to argue and be worth opposing. Hence, common sense made agnostics (clearly the atheists) wish such common sense didn't make such profoundly disturbing good sense. Succinctly, nothing made sense unless something made sense. Thus, a man with a lick of sense knew God made the man so he could reason rightly at all.” –Brian G. Jett

C.S. Lewis Quotations (Actual Meaningful Remarks In My, biased perhaps, Opinion)

C.S. Lewis Quotes – Life“You will never know how much you believe something until it is a matter of life and death.” “If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it’s not so bad.” – God in the Dock, page 52.

“One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is like, simply for the sake of knowing. When that desire is completely quenched in anyone, I think he has become something less than human.” – God in the Dock,page 108. Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself. – The Problem of Pain

C.S. Lewis Quotes – Atheism"Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning. . ." – Mere Christianity

"Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable." – Mere Christianity

"A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere -- 'Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,' as Herbert says, 'fine nets and stratagems.' God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous." – Surprised by Joy

"My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?" - Mere Christianity

I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.' That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic -- on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg -- or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. – Mere Christianity, pages 40-41.

"You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England." – Surprised by Joy

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. – Is Theology Poetry?