Man or Rabbit: Have we forgotten what this is really about

"One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is like, simply for the sake of knowing. When that desire is completely quenched in anyone, I think he has become something less than human." In this, Lewis in pointing towards the heart of man and his desire to throughly know thing. We were created with an innate desire to know that what we are and what we see are really real. As Lewis mentions in the following sentence, "I don't believe any of you have really lost that desire. More probably, foolish preachers, by always telling you how much Christianity will help you and how good it is for society, have actually led you to forget that Christianity is not a patent medicine."

When you look at our culture today (especially the American culture), it seem people would rather use God as what scholars call Therapeutic Deism. By Therapeutic Deism, I mean a God that makes you feel good. Christianity, as it were, is not free from this idea either, as a matter of fact, more and more people are starting to look at the Christian God in such a fashion. It seems as though we think of God as just a being needed when one needs a little pick-me-up and then put back on the shelves of our medicine cabinet. This, of cause, would led me to ask wether or not we still remember what this whole Christian faith is all about. After all, as Lewis says, the way Christians see the world, should be different from everyone else. If we, believers, really believe Christ to be the risen God, then we are saying the only way to see the world as it really is, is through the eye of a Christian (after all our faith claims to have the truth).

But, as it would now seem, Christian are starting not to claim their religion as the absolute truth but rather a way to make your life better (this is a good load of crap). It must be true as Lewis says, "If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be; If it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all." This is the case because Christianity claim something far beyond just being a good person. To attempt to clarify what Lewis is saying, If a person find out that the claims of spending eternity with the creator were actually true, they would be foolish to not put their hopes in it, it wouldn't even matter if they didn't achieve being a good person on earth because they would know the hopes of the next world is greater.

Now, there are those who foolishly say to people "give your life to Christ and he will make you a better person." To this people, it is clear to me they have lost the real reason Christ died. I do have to say though, that I admire their efforts of trying to generate better citizens, but their way of doing so, is just simply wrong. Christ never says to anyone "I have come to die, that you may be a better person." But, rather "I have come, that you may have life and have it to the full." With this Christ is suggesting that the life we have now is not full, not that we are not good persons. Christ is saying, we are living incomplete life and the completeness is found in Him. The error of saying to people Christ will make you a better person is that people already do "good" (not in the sense of glorifying God) without Christ. So it would follow that a person wouldn't have the need to follow Christ if all Christ was offering is a life of good deeds.

Christ, on the other hand, is the real meaning of life. In him can life be lived as it is suppose to be, glorying to God. Equally as ridiculous are those who say "Christ will give you a better life." I am afraid, though, that I do not now have the time to go into such matters.