What Christians Believe

What Christian's Believe is a short Christian apologetic essay. The ideas closely resemble those in other C.S. Lewis Christian works. He presents an argument in favor of general Christianity over atheism and pantheism. Atheists have the burden of proof that their is no deity and all religions are wrong. One bit of truth from one religion would disprove atheism. Other religions and belief sets may have perfectly valid belief sets even if they lack some key components. Thus, Christians can believe that other religions have valid truths, even if they don't believe them completely.

A dualistic belief of equal forces of good and evil is refuted because evil is a negative response to good - and many evil actions use are enabled in part by "good" characteristics.

The arguments are more well thought out than the summaries I have given. However, since this is a brief book, there is not a whole lot more to them. "Mere Christianity" may be a better place to go to get the detail of his arguments.