{"id":5363,"date":"2014-08-20T18:04:06","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T22:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=5363"},"modified":"2014-08-20T18:06:13","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T22:06:13","slug":"c-s-lewis-use-bad-christian-instead-of-not-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=5363","title":{"rendered":"C.S. Lewis: Use Bad Christian instead of Not Christian?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From his book Mere Christianity, I quote: <em>When a man who accepts the Christian doctrine lives unworthily of it, it is much clearer to say he is a <strong>bad Christian<\/strong> than to say he is <strong>not a Christian<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now, it would appear that Lewis did not like to call the bluff on the profession of faith, but then he also said in the same book:<\/p>\n<p><em>If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions \u2013 if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious or ambitious as he was before \u2013 then I think we must suspect that his 'conversion' was largely <strong>imaginary<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From his book Mere Christianity, I quote: When a man who accepts the Christian doctrine lives unworthily of it, it is much clearer to say he is a bad Christian than to say he is not a Christian. Now, it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=5363\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5363"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5366,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5363\/revisions\/5366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}