What Christians Believe
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Chapter 5: "The Practical Conclusion"
The perfect surrender and humiliation were undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man. Now the Christian belief is that if we somehow share the humility and suffering of Christ we shall also share in His conquest of death and find a new life after we have died and in it become perfect, and perfectly happy, creatures. This means something much more than our trying to follow His teaching. People often ask when the next step in evolution--the step to something beyond man--will happen. But on the Christian view, it has happened already. In Christ a new kind of man appeared: and the new kind of life which began in Him is to be put into us.
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Chapter 4: "The Perfect Penitent"
- Either Jesus was and is who he claimed to be, or he's "a lunatic, or something worse."
- Lewis and I accept him for who he claimed to be, God. God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form."
- So, what do we make of this? What did he come to do?
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Chapter 3: "The Shocking Alternative"
- Christians believe that "an evil power has made himself for the present the Prince of this World."
- Problem: Is this in accordance with God's will?
- "If it is, He is a strange God... and if it is not, how can anything happen contrary to the will of a being with absolute power?"
- God created things with free will
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Chapter 2: "The Invasion"
- Atheism is too simple
- Another view that is too simple, “Christianity-and-water”
- Says “there is a good God in heaven and everything is alright”
- Leaves out all of the “difficult and terrible doctrines about sin and hell and the devil, and the redemption.”
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Book Two – "What Christians Believe"
Chapter 1: "The Rival Concepts of God"
- Christianity does NOT believe that all other religions are wrong “through and through.”
- Christians “are free to think that all [other] religions, even the queerest ones, contain at least some hint of the truth.
- Just as in a math problem, all answers that are not the correct answer are equally wrong, but some are closer to the true answer than others.
