Lewis: men like gods

Saturday, December 26, 2015
    Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr
Meditation:
    “You will not surely die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
    When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
    —Genesis 3:4-7 (NIV)
Quotation:
    What Satan put into the heads of our remote ancestors was the idea that they could ‘be like gods’—could set up on their own as if they had created themselves—be their own masters—invent some sort of happiness for themselves outside God, apart from God. And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
    ... C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), Mere Christianity, New York: MacMillan, 1952, reprint, HarperCollins, 2001, p. 49 (see the book)
    See also Gen. 3:4-7; Ps. 12:3-4; Acts 12:21-23; 2 Cor. 4:4
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, life without You is unthinkable. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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