Lewis Mere Christianity

In some of Lewis’s pieces, he goes into great depth of the ideas behind Christianity. He doesn’t just state the details and places where the faith has shown up and grown in his life. Lewis goes deep into the concepts that form his beloved faith. In his book Mere Christianity, he spends a lot of the the beginning of the book talking about human nature. He uses this subject to start at the basics of the Christian faith so he can go into greater detail later. He talks about the natural belief of what is right and what is wrong. For instance, most believe that it would be right to hold the door for someone with their arms full and wrong to not hold the door and watch them struggle. The thing is, though, that our natural beliefs get in the way …show more content…
Leading to the next topic where Lewis talks about forgiveness. He says how forgiveness is not exactly as beautiful as it sounds. Everyone likes how someone can say ‘I forgive you’ and it’s supposed to fix things. But that’s only when one is being forgiven. The Christian faith is not an easy thing. People have to think about both sides of the story. They ask God to forgive them all the time and don’t think about how he could be feeling about having to forgive everyone. They just look at the fact that they can take a deep breath and often forget about the wrong they’ve done. It's the same with everyone else in the world. The person being forgiven doesn’t necessarily consider the point of view of the person deciding to forgive them. It states in Lewis’s book Mere Christianity, “Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive...”(Mere, page 104). This proves the point that people want to be forgiven but not forgive. This compares to the subject discussed earlier about people good things done for them but not returning the favor. Lewis talks about how a Christian and people in general should ‘hate the sin and not the sinner’. This means that people should focus their anger, sadness, or whatever they are feeling towards someone’s wrong, on the action itself rather than the person. Focusing the negative feelings on the person who did the wrong will only create more not good feelings; often more than is even …show more content…
Lewis talks about how a big part of faith is belief. Lewis says,”In the first sense it means simply Belief- accepting or regarding as true the Doctrines of Christianity”(Mere, page 123). There are so many things to believe when someone is part of the Christian faith. A believer needs to accept the Christian faith and want to understand that it’s real. Unfortunately, there are things in life that make believing and being faithful difficult. Senses and emotions can get in the way of being faithful to God. Most experienced Christians could tell someone that it takes a while to fully believe it’s all true and want to believe. It is usually discovered by experience that God and his holy ways are real. Lewis talks about how going through life looking at things through Christian eyes will help a person find the things to make them believe. Leaving one’s problems to God to deal with will eventually show a person that the faith is real. After a long life of hard situations a rough events, Lewis has gone through a lot. His experiences have lead him into deep thought about the Christian Faith, making his writing in his book Mere Christianity very detailed and in depth. He goes from basic ideas to how they correspond to Christianity. Lewis talks about how a person’s idea or right and wrong are different and that there are different meaning to the word ‘right’ depending on the person. One person could have more mortality than another