I just finished reading Jack, a biography of C.S. Lewis by George Sayer. Early in his career at Oxford, Lewis was studying the New Testament in the original Greek (he was either an atheist or deist then). One of the aspects of the gospels that convinced him that they were historical rather than legend was their unimaginative literary style. They did not read like the myths and legends that Lewis had studied so much in his academic work.
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There are, of course, other books in the Bible that are praised for their literary style. I just found it interesting that this played a role in C.S. Lewis's move from unbelief to belief.
Posted by: CJ Costello on Saturday, January 14, 2006