Examining the Doctrine of C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis is often portrayed as a Christian author and scholar. I’m going to share below just a handful of his direct quotes form his writings. You can decide for yourself if his material was truly Christian or if he was a pagan in sheep’s clothing.
Many Christians are not aware that C.S. Lewis actually had many un-evangelical beliefs that reflected in his writings. He expressed many of his catholic beliefs in Purgatory, prayers to the dead, mass etc… and before his death he considered himself to be “very Catholic.” Amongst many other extremely alarming doctrinal statements regarding his beliefs, found all throughout his writings:
LEWIS BELIEVED IN OTHER WAYS TO GOD APART FORM JESUS CHRIST:
This heretical quote from Lewis is what got my wife and I to throw out ALL our our CS Lewis
books when we were reading The Last Battle.
(Keep in mind “Tash” in his writings was a figure and type of “Satan”)
“Then I fell at his feet and thought, Surely this is the hour of death, for the Lion (who is
worthy of all honour) will know that I have served Tash all my days and not him.
Nevertheless, it is better to see the Lion and die than to be Tisroc of the world and live and
not to have seen him. But the Glorious One bent down his golden head and touched my
forehead with his tongue and said, Son, thou art welcome. But I said, Alas Lord, I
am no son of thine but the servant of Tash. He answered, Child, all the
service thou hast done to Tash, I account as service done to me. Then by reasons
of my great desire for wisdom and understanding, I overcame my fear and questioned the
Glorious One and said, Lord, is it then true, as the Ape said, that thou and Tash
are one? The Lion growled so that the earth shook (but his wrath was not against me) and
said, It is false. Not because he and I are one, but because we are opposites, I take to me
the services which thou hast done to him. For I and he are of such different kinds that
no service which is vile can be done to me, and none which is not vile can be done to him.
Therefore if any man swear by Tash and keep his oath for the oath’s sake, it is
by me that he has truly sworn, though he know it not, and it is I who reward
him. And if any man do a cruelty in my name, then, though he says the name Aslan, it is Tash
whom he serves and by Tash his deed is accepted. Dost thou understand, Child? I said, Lord,
though knowest how much I understand. But I said also (for the truth constrained me), Yet I
have been seeking Tash all my days. Beloved, said the Glorious One, unless thy desire
had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly. For all find what they
truly seek.” (C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle)
Essentially Lewis was saying that all those who worship satan loyally are doing it unto Christ and
that they are saved! No mention of repentance and faith in Christ as the only way! This is
absolute paganism and blasphemy against God! He clearly did not believe in the Gospel!
“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto
the Father, but by me.” John 14:6
“Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under
heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” Acts 4:12
C.S. LEWIS BELIEVED THAT SOME PEOPLE FROM FALSE RELIGIONS
WERE SAVED EVEN WITHOUT REALIZING IT:
“I think that every prayer which is sincerely made even to a false god or to a very
imperfectly conceived true God, is accepted by the true God and that Christ saves many who
do not think they know Him.” (Letters of C. S. Lewis, page 428)
“There are people in other religions who are being led by God’s secret influence to
concentrate on those parts of their religion which are in agreement with Christianity, and who
thus belong to Christ without knowing it. For example a Buddhist of good will may
be led to concentrate more and more on the Buddhist teaching about mercy and to leave in
the background (though he might still say he believed) the Buddhist teaching on certain
points. Many of the good Pagans long before Christ’s birth may have been in this position.”
(C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity– p.176, 177)
LEWIS FOLLOWED PAGAN PRACITCES AND BLASPHEMED CHRIST
AND THE WORD OF GOD:
“I had some ado to prevent Joy and myself from relapsing into Paganism in Attica! At Daphni
it was hard not to pray to Apollo the Healer. But somehow one didn’t feel it would have
been very wrong – would have only been addressing Christ sub specie Apollinis.”
(C.S. Lewis: A Biography, pg. 276)
“…as I believe, Christ,…fulfills both Paganism and Judaism…”; (C.S. Lewis; Reflections on the Psalms – p.129)
LEWIS DID NOT BELIEVE IN THE BIBLICAL CREATION ACCOUNT IN
GENESIS:
“I have therefore no difficulty accepting, say, the view of those scholars who tell us that the
account of Creation in Genesis is derived from earlier Semitic stories which were Pagan and
mythical.” (C.S. Lewis Reflections on the Psalms – p.110)
LEWIS BELIEVED IN EVOLUTION:
Lewis went as far to even teach through his writings that humanity evolved from animals:
“… for we have good reason to believe that animals existed long before men… For long
centuries God perfected the animal form which was to become the vehicle of
humanity and the image of Himself … God caused a new kind of consciousness to
descend upon this organism” (C.S. Lewis – The Problem of Pain, p.133).
“…but he [man] remains still a primate and an animal” (C.S. Lewis – Reflections On The
Psalms, p.115, 129)
“If by saying that man rose from brutality you mean simply that man is physically descended
from animals, I have no objection” (C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain, p.72)
C.S. LEWIS BELIEVED MAN IS AN ANIMAL.
“When we come to man, the highest of the animals, we get the completest resemblance
to God which we know of.” (C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity p.139)
After reading even just one of these quotes, it’s evident that C.S. Lewis clearly did not hold to the
doctrinal beliefs of a true Christian. His statements are that of a pagan in sheep’s clothing!
How is it that this man, who is championed as a Christian author and a hero of the Faith so readily
accepted in the Body of Christ today? As Christians, we must have discernment, and study the Word of God or we will be deceived by false doctrines and false teachers as C.S. Lewis!
The apostle Paul warned us in 2 Cor. 11:14-15 “And no marvel; for Satan himself is
transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be
transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their
works.”
The Lord bless and keep you!
Joseph T. Bishara
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