Book 2: Chapter 1: What Christians believe

I really want us to get to the meat of this book. There are some really great chapters to discuss. The beginning is a little slow because Lewis is building a logical argument for the existence of God piece by piece describing how he made the leap from being an atheist to becoming a Christian. I find it very interesting the journey that brought him to faith.

This section gets us to some new ideas. 

So, his first idea is that atheists have to strongly believe that all religions are wrong for believing in God. But that Christians can be more liberal in saying that religions have at least some small piece of the truth because they recognize the existence of God. And that we can agree with them on the aspects that are in agreement with Christianity. This has been a way that I've been able to build common ground with people from other religions. I think it helps demonstrate light and grace. I also don't apologize for my beliefs that are different. 

Second idea is that there are two camps - God made the world and that there is good and bad (christian, jews, islam) God is the universe and all things are good if seen from God's point of view (hindu, buddhist) This is one of the most concise descriptions to categorize religious beliefs that I've read and I found it useful as a way of understanding the similarities and differences between religions.