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I have been reading some of the threads here and I have spotted a major flaw in how people attempt to convince athiests of the existence of God. They grant the athiests home field advantage and allow them to set the ground rules.
They do this from the very start, by referring to the Creator in the abstract. Then they proceed to use abstract concepts to further widen the field of discussion.
In turn, the athiest, who naturally is a darwinist, will expand the discussion more and more; ever evolving, until everyone involved is floating around at some distant location in a multiverse...in some magical dimension, where nothing can be proved, since gravity itself has been left far behind.
No, we live in a solid existence, with our feet planted firmly on the very ground Yahuah created in the beginning.
This Creator has created all things through His Word as He Spoke it into existence.
This Word is preserved in the Bible. The Bible is written to the people of this planet we call earth.
The Creator Who created man knows His creation through and through and so it is fitting that the One Who Speaks would create us to speak, and to write, and to read. So, to have a book that communicates a message from the Creator to His creation is more than fitting or appropriate, it is natural.
It is the simplest thing that one could expect...so simple, that even a child could understand it.
This is exactly what He has done for us. Yet, man, not content on being the child of the Father, has ever sought to complicate things and has fashioned for himself an imaginary world of abstractions, in a futile attempt to escape his human calling.
"Lewis’ style of thinking and literary technique have little to do with abstract speculations like "Metaphysical Evidence for God" or "A Treatise on Moral Absolutes". He used literary means and genres, rarely found in the field of Christian apologetics: poetic language, symbolism, myth, science fiction, novels, fictionary correspondence. Probably the most characteristic feature of Lewis’ literary style is his usage of metaphor, symbol and mythopoeic language. In his particular use of language, Lewis was able to employ his expertise in literary theory and history of literature, the field of scholarship which was his secular occupation...
In poetic language, we extend the ordinary meaning of words. Words which speak about empirical reality (a tree, a river, a stone) are used to look beyond the material objects, to signify what is not visible to the natural eye, whether it is inner feelings, moods or spiritual experience. One of Lewis’ basic convictions was that we are not speaking here about arbitrary artistic originality or creativity – there is actually not much space for arbitrariness and chance in using language metaphorically.
Lewis believed in deep and complex interconnectedness of the spiritual and material worlds.[3] He held that nature is not just a passive material for human creative (or destructive) activity. Natural phenomena point beyond themselves to extrasensual reality, to which they bear witness. Lewis saw the theological justification of this idea in the biblical doctrine of creation, which portrays nature as the herald of God’s glory and mystery (see especially the book of Psalms).
Lewis argued it was God who created nature with all its beauties, colours and shapes, and who also created man with his aesthetic sensitivity and imagination. [4]There is therefore a preordained harmony between nature, perceived by our senses and spiritual meaning, which we ascribe to natural beauty because we are equipped with God-given intuition and imagination. God did not leave it to mere chance how exactly His glory is mirrored in created nature. There is an interconnectedness between our God-given imagination, natural phenomena and spiritual reality which they reflect (as the psalmist says, God’s majesty is symbolised by high mountains, His awesomeness is proclaimed by the sky, fire symbolises for us His holiness, wind is a symbol of His Spirit, His peace is like a river…"
C.S. Lewis and the Language of Apologetics
I challenge any athiest to go back to the beginning..."to the natural things of creation", and to how these things were originally understood in the original language in which the Bible was written, and see the consistency between what is written and what is.
They do this from the very start, by referring to the Creator in the abstract. Then they proceed to use abstract concepts to further widen the field of discussion.
In turn, the athiest, who naturally is a darwinist, will expand the discussion more and more; ever evolving, until everyone involved is floating around at some distant location in a multiverse...in some magical dimension, where nothing can be proved, since gravity itself has been left far behind.
No, we live in a solid existence, with our feet planted firmly on the very ground Yahuah created in the beginning.
This Creator has created all things through His Word as He Spoke it into existence.
This Word is preserved in the Bible. The Bible is written to the people of this planet we call earth.
The Creator Who created man knows His creation through and through and so it is fitting that the One Who Speaks would create us to speak, and to write, and to read. So, to have a book that communicates a message from the Creator to His creation is more than fitting or appropriate, it is natural.
It is the simplest thing that one could expect...so simple, that even a child could understand it.
This is exactly what He has done for us. Yet, man, not content on being the child of the Father, has ever sought to complicate things and has fashioned for himself an imaginary world of abstractions, in a futile attempt to escape his human calling.
"Lewis’ style of thinking and literary technique have little to do with abstract speculations like "Metaphysical Evidence for God" or "A Treatise on Moral Absolutes". He used literary means and genres, rarely found in the field of Christian apologetics: poetic language, symbolism, myth, science fiction, novels, fictionary correspondence. Probably the most characteristic feature of Lewis’ literary style is his usage of metaphor, symbol and mythopoeic language. In his particular use of language, Lewis was able to employ his expertise in literary theory and history of literature, the field of scholarship which was his secular occupation...
In poetic language, we extend the ordinary meaning of words. Words which speak about empirical reality (a tree, a river, a stone) are used to look beyond the material objects, to signify what is not visible to the natural eye, whether it is inner feelings, moods or spiritual experience. One of Lewis’ basic convictions was that we are not speaking here about arbitrary artistic originality or creativity – there is actually not much space for arbitrariness and chance in using language metaphorically.
Lewis believed in deep and complex interconnectedness of the spiritual and material worlds.[3] He held that nature is not just a passive material for human creative (or destructive) activity. Natural phenomena point beyond themselves to extrasensual reality, to which they bear witness. Lewis saw the theological justification of this idea in the biblical doctrine of creation, which portrays nature as the herald of God’s glory and mystery (see especially the book of Psalms).
Lewis argued it was God who created nature with all its beauties, colours and shapes, and who also created man with his aesthetic sensitivity and imagination. [4]There is therefore a preordained harmony between nature, perceived by our senses and spiritual meaning, which we ascribe to natural beauty because we are equipped with God-given intuition and imagination. God did not leave it to mere chance how exactly His glory is mirrored in created nature. There is an interconnectedness between our God-given imagination, natural phenomena and spiritual reality which they reflect (as the psalmist says, God’s majesty is symbolised by high mountains, His awesomeness is proclaimed by the sky, fire symbolises for us His holiness, wind is a symbol of His Spirit, His peace is like a river…"
C.S. Lewis and the Language of Apologetics
I challenge any athiest to go back to the beginning..."to the natural things of creation", and to how these things were originally understood in the original language in which the Bible was written, and see the consistency between what is written and what is.
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