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Well, it was just a question about him thats all.

Of course I don't know everything as I didn't know him personally. I don't understand the animosity people are showing on this thread.
When someone is in the occult they of course are blinded. A christian knows that God doesn't look on witches and wizards as following him if they are unrepentent and actively involved in witchcraft, or even curious about them - for example, people have been damaged by looking at horoscopes and believing lies about them.

of course witches and wizards can repent, and people can repent of dabbling in the occult and making up stories about them. It is something I don't want anything to do with, even though it's all around in our culture today.
 
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Here's some references to witchcraft in the Bible.


Leviticus 19:31 - Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I [am] the LORD your God.

Exodus 22:18 - Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

Leviticus 20:27 - A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood [shall be] upon them.

Deuteronomy 18:9-12 - When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. (Read More...)

Deuteronomy 18:10 - There shall not be found among you [any one] that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, [or] that useth divination, [or] an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,

Leviticus 20:6 - And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.

Galatians 5:19-21 - Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, (Read More...)

Revelation 21:8 - But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

Isaiah 8:19 - And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?

Galatians 5:20-21 - Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, (Read More...)

2 Chronicles 33:6 - And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

2 Kings 21:6 - And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke [him] to anger.

Revelation 22:15 - For without [are] dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

1 Samuel 15:23 - For rebellion [is as] the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness [is as] iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from [being] king.

Acts 19:19 - Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all [men]: and they counted the price of them, and found [it] fifty thousand [pieces] of silver.

1 Chronicles 10:13-14 - So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, [even] against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking [counsel] of [one that had] a familiar spirit, to enquire [of it]; (Read More...)

Isaiah 19:3 - And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
 
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Of course I don't know everything as I didn't know him personally. I don't understand the animosity people are showing on this thread.

Because you haven't the first clue what your talking about.
 
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Acts 19:19 and Deuteronomy 18:9 seem to apply here. We shouldn't even be curious about such things or promote them. Its not I who say this, this is what the Bible says.
Also people who then just say oh well KJV is a poor translation, well, people just want to justify anything don't they?
 
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Well, people who read generally have opinions of what they read and its not because they don't know what they talking about if they actually read the Bible and compare what it says with what CS Lewis says about things. And those things actually differ. I'm not going to waste time reading his entire work, when there is nothing beneficial I see if what I already read was suspect and unbiblical.

Sorry for pointing that out. If you want to differ on those points, ok, but, I would say that as a christian our focus ought to be on God's Word more than whatever theologian, even if its CS lewis, says.
 
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If you're basing your opinion of Lewis' Christian understanding on his highly imaginative and symbol-laden stories, you're going to have a bad time. Mere Christianity, you complained, read like an outdated apologetic? Well, these were written for the radio when he read them over the air to the masses during World War II; of course it's going to be elementary. Screwtape Letters, likewise, was an experiment and not representative of his body of work.

I suggest reading Reflections on the Psalms, God in the Dock, and perhaps something like The Abolition of Man for a better understanding of his beliefs.
 
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If he helps you and brings you closer to God, then good for you, but in my experience reading his work made me confused because his picture or version of christianity was not really edifying for me.

I'm sure I'm not alone in this and wondered what all the fuss was about. I wouldn't give 'mere christianity' to a new christian for example, it just wouldn't be relevant.
 
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Sorry for pointing that out. If you want to differ on those points, ok, but, I would say that as a christian our focus ought to be on God's Word more than whatever theologian, even if its CS lewis, says.

Who says? There is more to Christianity than a ridiculously flawed fundamentalist interpretation. That is the biggest problem with your ideas, you learned some very bad ideas and assume everyone should believe the way you do. CS Lewis was five times a better Christian than any fundamentalist yahoo.
 
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um, why are people saying he's a better christian when God has no respect for persons. He loves us and doesn't put one over the other and say just because someone is published a lot of books that they are any better than someone who isn't famous.
 
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Even Paul said not to go 'I am of Paul, or appollos' etc. Just I am in Christ.

otherwise its the whole 'calvinists are better than christians who aren't' kind of thing all over again. That is not christian!!!

No you putting down a great man of God is not Christian but is of Satan.
 
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Also, just because someone isn't anglican doesn't mean they are somehow 'fundamentalists'. Sorry. Please be gracious in your posts, remember this is just a question, not an attack on CS lewis.

You attacked CS Lewis now deal with the consequences of thinking that your brand of Christianity is the only one.
 
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Goodbook, you're acting like someone whose first introduction to the Bible is Ecclesiastes... and reads no more since clearly the Bible's just a book of weird, depressing ruminations-- and not at all like those Christians are making it out to be.

For my part, I've had no animosity.
 
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Please read your posts. They come over as an attack on CS Lewis. I shall assume this was unintentional henceforth, but you should really watch your language usage.
As to all your witchery talk, we have shown in this thread how the Bible actually doesn't use the word.
 
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