Three Truths People Need to Know

There are many Christian beliefs, but how can unbelievers know whether or not they are true? In the second book of Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis explains three truths that Christians believe. He shows Christians believe that a good world that has gone wrong but still retains the memory of what it ought to have been, the evil power is the Prince of this World, and God has landed on this world in human form (C.S. Lewis 42,47,53).

The first truth Christians believe, according to Lewis, is that the good world has become wrong, but the memory of the good side still exists. However, Lewis thinks that “next to Christianity Dualism is the … most sensible creed” (42). Dualism believes that there are two equal and independent powers at the back of everything. These two powers, one is good, and one is bad, are fighting in this world (42). However, Dualism does not make sense because the two powers still need a standard to judge right or wrong. So, who made this standard? It must be God.

In this world, there are many beautiful things. Pleasure, money, power, and safety are good things, but sometimes they become bad because people use them in the wrong way (44). Lewis shows that before things go bad, there must be good things. Therefore, there must be a good power first, and the bad power is from the good, instead of two independent powers (45). “It thinks it is a civil war…