"We may observe that the teaching of Our Lord Himself, in which there is no imperfection, is not given us in that cut-and-dried, fool-proof, systematic fashion we might have expected or desired. He wrote no book. We have only reported sayings, most of them uttered in answer to questions, shaped in some degree by their context. And when we have collected them all we cannot reduced them to a system." - CS Lewis in Reflections on the Psalms, p. 95.C.S. Lewis, widely regarded thinker on all manners of Christianity, is the focal point in this short book written by Michael J. Christensen. The text conveys Lewis' rationale behind a number of issues is modern Christianity, including the inerrancy of the Bible. The book projects that while liberal theologians are apt to dismiss the Bible as being largely inaccurate and written by man, fundamentalists view the Bible as 'divinely inspired' with some, such as Calvin, regarding the process of being one of divine dictation.
Lewis, aware of these devisive camps, falls somewhere in the middle. His rationale was one of his scholarly pursuits in literary legends. Finding that the Bible is in part literature that conveys the ideas God wanted to tell mankind, Lewis also makes room for several numerological discrepancies between different accounts of the same stories. These differing accounts do little to undermine the message being conveyed. Thus, Lewis viewed the Bible as one consistent with the life that Jesus lead - he wanted to tell the people how to live, but left a lot open to interpretation.
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