C. S. Lewis Quotes
The command "Be ye prfect" is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He said (in the Bible) that we were "gods" and he is going to make good his words. He will make us into a god or goddess, a dazzling, radiant, immortal creature...a bright stainless mirror which reflects back to God perfectly.
Lewis, C. S. Mere Christianity. Geoffrey Bles, 1952.
This quotation produces much angst among some fundamentalist Christians, Jews and Muslims for whom any concept of multiple deities is distressing as is the notion that man might aspire to become God. This and polygamy are two of the central reasons that some Christians deny that Mormonism is a Christian religion.
Clive Staples Lewis was a British writer and lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University (Magdalen College, 1925–1954) and Cambridge University (Magdalene College, 1954–1963). He is best known for his works of fiction, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain.
