Reasons for faith

"Early in 1926 the hardest boiled of all the atheists I ever knew sat in my room on the other side of the fire and remarked that the evidence for the historicity of the gospels was really surprisingly good.

'Rum thing,' he went on. 'All that stuff of Frazer's (the author of The Golden Bough) about the Dying God. Rum thing. It almost looks as if it had happened once.'"

These comments made to C.S. Lewis were the straw that broke the camel's back of his unbelief, directly leading to him embracing Christianity.

He knew the implications of the historical accuracy of the Gospels for his past atheism, and he saw the apparent similarities between certain pagan ideas and Christianity's as reason to believe, not to deny.

Similarly, we should remember that the evidence for the New Testament's historical reliability and for its lack of connection to pagan mystery religion's ideas is very strong, and has only been briefly touched on here.

May we remember that Jesus is the Messiah, that those who deny Him as Saviour cannot be saved (Matt. 10:33):

"But whoever shall deny Me before men, I will also deny him before my Father who is in heaven."