I am going to try and blog more this semester. I promise!
I was writing a paper for Theology on the Book Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis, and wanted to share one paragraph of that paper with you all:
"Christianity is telling us about another world, and theology is a practical map to that. As humans, we may be like God in certain ways, but not things of the same kind. God is in one nature but has three distinct persons inseparable, but yet still one. The purpose of life, why we exist, is to be taken into the life of God, and the most accurate instrument for learning about God is the Christian community. In regards to time, God is not in Time, He has no history, it is always the present for Him, and He can see ahead. God is always acting through us, and the spirit of His love is a love going on between the Father and the Son. If we let God have His way, we can come to share in the life of Christ, and we can have joy, power, peace, and eternal life. Individuals are not really separate from God any more than they are separate from one another, and we can become a son of God through Christ dying for our sins. Each individual in the Christian community is different from one another, and able to contribute different things to the world that no one else could. Once we realize who we are in Christ, we become alarmed not only about what we do, but who we are in the world. There are things your conscience might not call wrong that you will realize you are doing wrong if you are trying to be like Christ. We need to hand our whole self over to Christ. God is only satisfied with nothing less than absolute perfection, but we have to make the first effort. He knows that our efforts will not bring us anywhere close to perfection, but He will not be satisfied with us being “ordinary people”, and He is going to make us into people who can obey His command to be perfect, and those who put themselves in His hands will become perfect, as He is perfect. Once one offers their life completely to God, then it is only then that it begins to really be his own. It is not an improvement, but instead, a transformation. You will not have a real self until you have given up yourself to Him."
