My fellow evangelicals are often a bit taken aback the first time they read C. S. Lewis’s apologetics classic Mere Christianity. What shocks them is how rarely Lewis quotes the Bible in his vigorous but irenic defense of the faith. Does Lewis not believe the Bible is the Word of God? Is he ashamed to quote it?
The answer to both questions is a resounding no. Lewis believed very much in the authority of Scripture, but he knew many of his readers did not. Indeed, he knew that swaths of the post-Christian England to which he addressed his book—which began as a series of broadcast talks he delivered for BBC Radio in the early years of World War II—not only did not recognize the divine status of the Bible; they were cut off from the worldview the Bible assumes. Read More
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