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Mere improvement is not redemption
‘Niceness’—wholesome, integrated personality—is an excellent thing. We
must try by every medical, educational, economic, and political means in our
power to produce a world where as many people as possible grow up ‘nice’;
just as we must try to produce a world where all have plenty to eat. But we
must not suppose that even if we succeeded in making everyone nice we
should have saved their souls. A world of nice people, content in their own
niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as
desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world—and might even be
more difficult to save.
For mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves
people even here and now and will, in the end, improve them to a degree we
cannot yet imagine. God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply
to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of man. It
is not like teaching a horse to jump better and better but like turning a
horse into a winged creature. Of course, once it has got its wings, it will
soar over fences which could never have been jumped and thus beat the
natural horse at its own game. But there may be a period, while the wings
are just beginning to grow, when it cannot do so: and at that stage the
lumps on the shoulders—no one could tell by looking at them that they are
going to be wings—may even give it an awkward appearance.
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (1952; Harper Collins: 2001) 215-216. | l**********t
发帖数: 5754 | 2 "For mere improvement is not redemption" exactly. Nice article.
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: http://merecslewis.blogspot.ca/2011/03/mere-improvement-is-not-
: Mere improvement is not redemption
: ‘Niceness’—wholesome, integrated personality—is an excellent thing. We
: must try by every medical, educational, economic, and political means in our
: power to produce a world where as many people as possible grow up ‘nice’;
: just as we must try to produce a world where all have plenty to eat. But we
: must not suppose that even if we succeeded in making everyone nice we
: should have saved their souls. A world of nice people, content in their own
: niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as
: desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world—and might even be
| l*****a
发帖数: 38403 | 3 你撒谎和做假见证的习惯是怎么来的？
【在 l**********t 的大作中提到】
: "For mere improvement is not redemption" exactly. Nice article.
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