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EPISODE 98 - C.S. Lewis on Faith
C.S. Lewis said: “I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of evidence is against it.” He develops his case particularly in such books as Mere Christianity, The Abolition of Man, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain. Lewis decidedly gave place to rationality. However, while upholding a place for rationality, he was opposed to the rationalism of the Enlightenment, which gave almost no place to the human imagination or to the idea of belief in a personal God. In other words, he opposed what in our day is called Modernism.
Rationalism often claims God cannot exist because there is no empirical evidence of God. This, however, is an incoherent argument and impossible to prove because it is a negative assertion. In this podcast, Dr. Lindsley argues that Rationalism is a limited argument. It fundamentally cannot disprove God. When doubts and attacks are prevalent, sometimes the most logical thing to do is to trust and have faith. Read this article online.
This episode is narrated by Aimee Riegert.
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