<p><span style="color: #000000;">We </span><span style="color: #000000;"><b>have</b></span><span style="color: #000000;"> two bits of evidence /about the Somebody behind the Moral Law.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000000;"> One </span><span style="color: #000000;"><b>is</b></span><span style="color: #000000;"> the universe () He </span><span style="color: #000000;"><b>has made</b></span><span style="color: #000000;">. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000000;">If we </span><span style="color: #000000;"><b>used</b></span><span style="color: #000000;"> that /as our only clue, then I </span><span style="color: #000000;"><b>think</b></span><span style="color: #000000;"> () we should </span><span style="color: #000000;"><b>have to conclude</b></span><span style="color: #000000;"> that He </span><span style="color: #000000;"><b>was</b></span><span style="color: #000000;"> a great artist </span></p><p><span style="color: #000000;">(for the universe </span><span style="color: #000000;"><b>is</b></span><span style="color: #000000;"> a very beautiful place), </span></p><p><span style="color: #000000;">but also that He </span><span style="color: #000000;"><b>is</b></span><span style="color: #000000;"> quite merciless and no friend to man </span></p><p><span style="color: #000000;">(for the universe </span><span style="color: #000000;"><b>is</b></span><span style="color: #000000;"> a very dangerous and </span><span style="color: #ff5f45;">terrifying</span><span style="color: #000000;"> place). </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000000;">The other bit of evidence </span><span style="color: #000000;"><b>is</b></span><span style="color: #000000;"> [that Moral Law //which He </span><span style="color: #000000;"><b>has put</b></span><span style="color: #000000;"> into our minds]. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000000;">And this </span><span style="color: #000000;"><b>is</b></span><span style="color: #000000;"> a better bit of evidence /than the other, because it </span><span style="color: #000000;"><b>is</b></span><span style="color: #000000;"> inside information. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000000;">You </span><span style="color: #000000;"><b>find out</b></span><span style="color: #000000;"> more about God /from the Moral Law /than from the universe in general </span></p><p><span style="color: #000000;">/just as you find out more about a man /by listening to his conversation /than by looking at a house () he </span><span style="color: #000000;"><b>has built</b></span><span style="color: #000000;">.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000000;">From Mere Christianity</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000;">Compiled in A Year with C.S. Lewis</span></p><p> </p>
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