
Letter (8 November 1952); published in Letters of C. S. Lewis (1966), p. 247
1790s, Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)
Context: The universe is the bible of a true Theophilanthropist. It is there that he reads of God. It is there that the proofs of his existence are to be sought and to be found. As to written or printed books, by whatever name they are called, they are the works of man's hands, and carry no evidence in themselves that God is the author of any of them. It must be in something that man could not make, that we must seek evidence for our belief, and that something is the universe; the true bible; the inimitable word, of God.
Letter (8 November 1952); published in Letters of C. S. Lewis (1966), p. 247
“The Theophilanthropists believe in the existence of God, and the immortality of the soul.”
1790s, Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)
1790s, Discourse to the Theophilanthropists (1798)
Context: The universe is the bible of a true Theophilanthropist. It is there that he reads of God. It is there that the proofs of his existence are to be sought and to be found. As to written or printed books, by whatever name they are called, they are the works of man's hands, and carry no evidence in themselves that God is the author of any of them. It must be in something that man could not make, that we must seek evidence for our belief, and that something is the universe; the true bible; the inimitable word, of God.
Dissertation for doctor of philosophy in christian education (May 25, 1991)
If this is the honest result, then you are compelled to say, either that God has made no revelation to me, or that the revelation that it is not true, is the revelation made to me, and by which I am bound. If the book and my brain are both the work of the same Infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and the brain do not agree? Either God should have written a book to fit my brain, or should have made my brain to fit his book.
Some Reasons Why (1881)
July 23, 1998 Seattle Post-Intelligencer, page C3.
“the Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it.”
Source: American Savage: Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics