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<blockquote data-quote="bbsam" data-source="post: 973739" data-attributes="member: 22662"><p>I will assume from your response that the back pain has been alleviated? Praise God!<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/FeltTip/happy2.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":happy2:" title="Happy2 :happy2:" data-shortname=":happy2:" /></p><p></p><p>You are right that disecting Lewis would be a daunting task. But I am not suggesting that Lewis' conversion means anything in and of itself. I simply find the analytical nature of the conversion interesting. </p><p></p><p>To go from atheist to believer by in depth analysis opens up the honest possibility that further analysis would lead the individual back to non-belief and there is nothing wrong with that. But that analysis has to be concise, honest, and thorough. There is nothing easy or flippant about it. If, for instance, there is something that challenges my faith, is faith easily thrown away or do I reexamine what the church actually teaches? Believe it or not, often there is a vast difference. What if I "ask of it in the Lords name" but do not receive it? Is this proof of God's nonexistence? Of course not, but I think many fail to adopt a maturity of faith to accept that fact. </p><p></p><p>The one thing I don't understand about people who become non believers is what they believed in the first place. How do these very learned people lose something that seemed so at their core? I venture that Lewis speaks of this when he speaks of the "sin" of Pride. These people have come to believe in their own knowledge, in their own wealth of experience and determined the quest over. There is no wonder, no majesty, no mystery that they cannot explain away. They still have faith, but it has been redirected toward their own brilliance. It's not a failing that I or any other human shouldn't be able to see in our own lives but we so prefer to ascribe it to "them" instead.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bbsam, post: 973739, member: 22662"] I will assume from your response that the back pain has been alleviated? Praise God!:happy2: You are right that disecting Lewis would be a daunting task. But I am not suggesting that Lewis' conversion means anything in and of itself. I simply find the analytical nature of the conversion interesting. To go from atheist to believer by in depth analysis opens up the honest possibility that further analysis would lead the individual back to non-belief and there is nothing wrong with that. But that analysis has to be concise, honest, and thorough. There is nothing easy or flippant about it. If, for instance, there is something that challenges my faith, is faith easily thrown away or do I reexamine what the church actually teaches? Believe it or not, often there is a vast difference. What if I "ask of it in the Lords name" but do not receive it? Is this proof of God's nonexistence? Of course not, but I think many fail to adopt a maturity of faith to accept that fact. The one thing I don't understand about people who become non believers is what they believed in the first place. How do these very learned people lose something that seemed so at their core? I venture that Lewis speaks of this when he speaks of the "sin" of Pride. These people have come to believe in their own knowledge, in their own wealth of experience and determined the quest over. There is no wonder, no majesty, no mystery that they cannot explain away. They still have faith, but it has been redirected toward their own brilliance. It's not a failing that I or any other human shouldn't be able to see in our own lives but we so prefer to ascribe it to "them" instead. [/QUOTE]
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