Mere Christianity

I have to admit felt a little cheated reading the first few chapters of Mere Christianity. Not because I already believe in God but because all the logic that Lewis logicks out is something I had already done myself in early high school. However, I do have two things I'd like to reflect on.

The first is about Moral Law. I find it interesting that although we as humans feel a compulsion to, say, help save someone who is drowning in a river, or stop someone about to end his life by jumping off a high bridge, we have no legal obligation to do so. In fact, if we were to try and help or interfere with that person and he were hurt in the process, we are legally responsible and can be sued by them. I think it's interesting that although we as humans all would feel the tug of Moral Responsibility telling us to help that person, our own man-made laws discourage us from doing any such thing. I wonder what this means about us?

Secondly, I found Lewis's thoughts on science in Chapter Four interesting: Lewis addresses the issue of science trying to prove the presence or absence of a Higher Being in the Universe, and yet that is something that science can't prove and was never meant to prove. Science can only observe and record and posit, and a Higher Being is not necessarily observable to a neutral scientist: "You cannot find out which view is the right one by science in the ordinary sense. Science works by expiriments. It watches how things behave."

I wonder if, like when we make plans for our lives, God laughs when we try to prove or disprove His existence. God is mysterious. He didn't give us all the answers. If He had, we would have no use for faith, which is a huge part of our belief system. As for me, I am perfectly happy without trying to prove God's existence. I see little glimpses of it every day, and I'm happy for the Mystery.