Here is a quote by C.S. Lewis that I recently cited in a class I taught. The class was called Knowing Christ: Paul’s Conversion from Religion. I used this quote to illustrate that not only do our religious gains count as loss when it comes to our salvation, but they the real problem is that they don’t help us to gain Christ. Lewis says this in an essay titled Man or Rabbit? :
“The people who keep on asking if they can’t lead a descent life without Christ, don’t know what life is about; if they did they would know that ‘a descent life’ is mere machinery compared with the thing we men are really made for. Morality is indispensable; but the Divine Life, which gives itself to us and which calls us to be gods, intends for us something in which morality will be swallowed up. We are to be re-made. All the rabbit in us is to disappear–the worried, conscientious, ethical rabbit as well as the cowardly and sensual rabbit. We shall bleed and squeal as the handfuls of fur come out; and then, surprisingly, we shall find underneath it all a thing we have never yet imagined: a real Man, and ageless god, a son of God, strong, radiant, wise, beautiful, and drenched in joy.”
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