usses that we all have rights and wrongs and that our choices are sometimes good and sometimes bad. He enforces our forgiving God. He says that in order for us to do right, we must sometimes do wrong, you must fail to eventually succeed. This teaches us and brings us closer to God. He discusses morality in several issues. One point he !
made was The Golden Rule of the New Testament, "Do as you would be done by." He then goes on and talks about loving thy neighbor. He makes an interesting point that you don't love your neighbor's actions but the actual being. He discusses the seven virtues, four of them are called "Cardinal" virtues and the remaining three are called "Theological" virtues. The cardinal virtues are ones that all civilized people recognize. The theological are ones that only Christians know about. Lewis discusses faith and its importance and then goes on to making and begetting. To beget is to become the father of: to create is to make. When you beget, you beget something of the same kind as yourself. He uses this in reference to God creating his son and begetting refers to how he is trying to have all his children mirror him. Lewis follows up this book by mentioning that if we give up ourselves we will find our true selves. Lose your life and you will save it. Look in yourself and y!
ou will find all those negatives, but look for Christ and you will find him and all his wonderful offerings.
One strength of the book was how well Lewis supported his points. He would state a point, explain and then use a story to make his readers understand how this fits into their lives. I have heard love thy neighbor several hundred times in my life, but now I have an entirely different feeling of this statement. I did not understand the way in which I should separate ones actions from their being. It's not as hard for me to forgive an action as the entire person&...