The Certainty of Christianity
by Jeff Mindler, Research Assistant at Apologetics for the Church “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built...
What’s Worse, Sins of the Flesh or Sins of the Spirit?
If anyone thinks that Christians regard unchastity as the supreme vice, he is quite wrong. The sins of the flesh are bad, but they are the least bad of all sins. All the worst pleasures are purely spiritual: the pleasure of putting other people in the wrong, of bossing and patronising and spoiling sport, and backbiting; the pleasures of power and hatred…That is why a cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to hell than a prostitute. But, of course, it is better to be neither.
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, p. 94-5.
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