C. S. Lewis lived from 1898-1963. He was a very influential Christian writer. During World War II, Lewis performed a series of radio broadcasts about Christianity. Mere Christianity is one of Lewis’ broadcasts which was collected and written down.
Mere Christianity is a very good book. C. S. Lewis gives meaning to Bible passages. He uses reason to determine why the passage says what it says. He doesn’t accept that the Bible is absurd, and we can’t understand it, yet we must believe it because it is true.
Lewis also says something very powerful about love and forgiveness. He says of the saying “hate the sin, but not the sinner”, “For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the man? But years later it occurred to me that there was one man to whom I had been doing this all my life – namely myself. However much I might dislike my own cowardice or conceit or greed, I went on loving myself. There had never been the slightest difficulty about it. In fact the very reason why I hated the thing was that I loved the man. Just because I loved myself, I was sorry to find that I was the sort of man who did those things.”
You can listen to Mere Christianity at http://www.truthaccordingtoscripture.com/documents/apologetics/mere-christianity/cs-lewis-mere-christianity-toc.php
You can download Mere Christianity at http://www.truthaccordingtoscripture.com/documents/apologetics/mere-christianity/Mere-Christianity.pdf
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