"I have the deepest respect for Pagan myths, still more for myths in the Holy Scriptures.” In his book, Reflections on the Psalms, he wrote “I have therefore no difficulty accepting, say, the view of those scholars who tell us that the account of Creation in Genesis is derived from earlier Semitic stories which were Pagan and mythical."

"I had some ado to prevent Joy and myself from relapsing into Paganism in Attica! At Daphni it was hard not to pray to Apollo the Healer. But somehow one didn’t feel it would have been very wrong—would have only been addressing Christ sub specie Apollinis."

"Christ’s death was not a substitution for us, but rather something like the Roman Catholic idea of the storing-up of grace.” The late Dr. Martyn Lloyd Jones said of him: “Because C. S. Lewis was essentially a philosopher, his view of salvation was defective in two key respects: (1) Lewis believed and taught that one could reason oneself into Christianity, and (2) he was an opponent of the substitutionary and penal theory of the atonement(Christianity Today 20-12-63)".

….the wind of [new-model theology’s] influence blows in through every crack when we read C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia stories.

Lewis was no theologian, and there’s no doubt that his views were squidgy on the question of eternal punishment. He held other views that make old-model evangelicals shudder.…..

In the final book of the Narnia series, a wicked ape drapes a lion skin over a witless a** and pretends the a** is Aslan.

It is a sinister and dangerous pretense, and in the end it leads countless Narnians astray.

In his books Lewis amplified on his understanding of the Bible’s inspiration:


Elsewhere Lewis wrote:


Again, Lewis penned:

"The Old Testament contains fabulous elements" which would include "Jonah and the Whale, Noah and his Ark"
Referring to the notion that :

"every sentence of the Old Testament has historical or scientific truth,"

Lewis admitted:


Edgar Boss concluded:

"Lewis does not accept the plenary verbal theory of Inspiration."

Similarly, Lewis analyst Richard Cunningham deduced:

"Lewis did not believe in the infallibility or the verbal inspiration of the Scriptures."


So Lewis can hold these views and be promoted and praised while a few us here deny a totally literal view of Genesis and Noah's flood - which neither of us have claimed as "fabulous" or "mythical" yet we are called non-Christians, unbelievers, workers of the devil..

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Of course they bury their heads - they don't want to accept that theologically Lewis was denying many portions of the old testament and claiming it as myth

there is nothing in our posts that have even hinted that we have claimed any of the bible as myth

what we dispute is the traditional woody literalism that fundymentalists insist on.

We have presented valid points on why Noah's flood was a regional event not a global one

we have not claimed the biblical event as "mythical" or "fabulous" as Lewis described the Noachian flood story.

I don't see these kind of accusations being hurled at C.S. Lewis because he wrote some supposedly "pithy" and "uplifting" sayings that soothes their frazzled nerves.

The hypocrisy is really evident in what they do and say.

It must be a low IQ thing after all with these people - they've never got over that thread on right wing conservatism being related to low IQ...

And of course they keep providing examples of behaviour that confirms the studies findings..

quote from mindya

I see the Lewis groupies are back to whining again.