Author: lutheluthe
Date: Dec 12, 2007 22:21
If you can forgive me a couple of days, I'd like to write a reply to this.
But briefly, I'd like to warn that we have to be careful not to be too arrogant
to think we know more than some really, really bright people just because we
live in the present and they lived in the past. All of these arguments, doubts,
beliefs, and positions are very, very old and have been considered by people
for centuries before us. Indeed even the disciples wrestled with some of these
issues.
But no matter what I could possibly write the best answer to your question, Jill,
was probably put forth by C.S.Lewis in his _Mere Christinity_, It's a beautiful
book. Oh, he was an atheist too, before.
Two more good books are Chesterton's _The Everlasting Man_ and his _Orthodoxy_
but I would begin with _Mere Christianity_.
nicky
P.S. If you want an example about how the old guys are just young guys who
lived a long time ago read St. Augustine's _Confessions_. He wrote about 1600
years ago, "God grant me chastity and continence... But not yet."
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