CQOD: 10/12/07 -- Lewis: the Gospels

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 12, 2007

Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709
Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845

Meditation:
    But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith.
    -- 1 Corinthians 15:12-14 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    No nation, and few individuals, are really brought into [God’s] camp by the historical study of the biography of Jesus, simply as biography. Indeed, materials for a full biography have been withheld from men. The earliest converts were converted by a single historical fact (the Resurrection) and a single theological doctrine (the Redemption) operating on a sense of sin which they already had... The “Gospels” came later and were written not to make Christians but to edify Christians already made.
    ... C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), The Screwtape Letters

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You are forever risen!

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