C. S. Lewis - Priestesses in the Church?

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[@starrjohnson5525]

This post, seeing the state we are in currently, is breathtakingly clear and prophetic.

[@nonosays]

Hearing this again in 2023 as the Anglican Church finally breaks with the C of E is almost unbelievable. And truly painful.

[@PadraigTomas]

Is it the case that the Church of England is breaking in two?

[@resurrectingman9011]

If only he could see what has become of the Anglican church...

[@allanlindsay8369]

He can 😉

[@BrockSamson18]

As said before, He can and he knows the true Anglican church continues outside the Church of England and the USA Episcopal Church. The Reformed Episcopal Church and those in GAFCON are in league with Christianity now and carry the legacy of Anglicanism.

[@burrito1413]

@@BrockSamson18return to orthodoxy lost child

[@uiPublic]

Clergy needn't be concerned as Soul's either in heaven or earth aren't made with sexes and so for the task saving it.

[@SunnyBoyy448]

How does anyone follow a church of a certain country. The Christian Church is UNIVERSAL. A disobedient king created this heretical church when he broke with the universal church

[@johnmcclain3887]

I have been about this business since my return from Beirut, in 83, as a Marine, and finding it necessary to adjust my beliefs to encompass a personal God and Savior, having run away from faith in belief, most of my life. I am amazed at what I've found with Lewis, having read him to our children, thirty five years, as the Narnia tales, and never realizing he was far beyond. My Christian life has been greatly expanded, enhanced, and indeed, "Blessed" in the last year I've found the incredible reason "Clive", has brought to my personal understanding and my faith, I am awed by God's felicity.

[@travelsouthafrica5048]

his friends and family called him Jack

[@JadaLovesAslan]

God bless you all!

[@allanlindsay8369]

I made mention of Walter Hooper's observation that he believed CS Lewis would eventually have become a Catholic as he, Hooper, did. Of course mention of the Catholic Church brought forth some vigorous responses, there are 30 comments on here currently and over half of them concern that one comment. This ability that the mentioning of the Catholic Church always engenders, has, I must admit helped confirm me in my faith. So here is a comment from Lewis himself which is both prophetic and indicative, " . . . missionary to the priests of one's own church is an embarrassing role though I have a horrid feeling that if such mission work is not undertaken the future history of the Church Of England is likely to be short . . ."

[@AndyYoung789]

Well Catholicism is the religion Christ founded. That's an INDISPUTABLE fact.

[@robertjohn8711]

He wouldn’t be an Anglican these days.

[@andrewthetextbook489]

Maybe a Continuing Anglican, but definitely not a member of the Anglican Communion.

[@maxalain9948]

B-b-b-based?

[@jasonludwig2488]

[Head turned to the side] Yes.

[@allanlindsay8369]

The other aspect worth noting in this "problem" which is worthy of consideration is pregnancy . . . . . until recent times anything up to and often over twenty confinements during a woman's life was not that unusual, let's say then some 180 months the equivalent to some fifteen years, then there is all that is entailed in relation to post natal health, apparently so some medical experts have claimed few if any women recover their health 100% then there is the feeding of the children and all else. How could a woman truly serve God and humankind in terms of the Church and the faithful? Of course just as Lewis reached the shores of Heaven in came ubiquitous contraception and all the propaganda ensuring its take-up . . . . and then came the Priestesses. How many priestesses Anglican or otherwise could hold down the role without contraception, while providing a true and dedicated ministry? (Is contraception against the law of God? )

[@rethaf4387]

You seem to argue that women are lesser servants of God, because they can get pregnant, which affects their health. But the average woman lives longer than the average man, and thus have more years of good health. If physical health was a measure to decide who should be priests, then it is men who should maybe not be priests.

[@allanlindsay8369]

@@rethaf4387Hello and greeting to you 🙏. The actuality is you can interpret matters that way, indeed anyway one chooses as is often the case as people chose sides. However, the reality of the matter is, that is the way it was and is (the latter in relation to contraception). So I was attempting to bring another facet in regard to this problem to bear - not emotion. Women are not lesser servants of God how can they be? The foot of the cross establishes that but in a world that now almost demands women to be as men their "role" is argumentatively either compromised or even destroyed. Also in marriage man and woman become one spirit, Matthew 19:5-6 And he said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become ONE flesh, so they are no longer two but ONE flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” Marriage again until "recent times" in Christendom was almost universal, so how can they serve God less? The evidence strongly supports the bringing to the debate, that until recent times women courtesy of reality would not have been able to hold down the true calling of a priest. Now added to this debate is can priestesses use contraception and have abortions?

[@fortysevenfortyniner]

@@rethaf4387 How did you read that comment and conclude with what you did? 😳

[@johnnotrealname8168]

This one essay disproves anglicanism. C.S.Lewis was very prescient.

[@Taiyama2]

God help the Anglican Church...

[@jhoughjr1]

this is a good one.

[@allanlindsay8369]

Thank you for this wonderful presentation. I'm au fait with this essay of Lewis and it is good to revisit it, as time moves on Lewis seems to be of similar stock to the prophets. Walter Hooper, who converted to Catholicism said he had no doubt that if Lewis were alive he would have become Catholic.

[@bany512]

Roman Catholicism teaches work based salvation, so no, he wouldn't.

[@allanlindsay8369]

@@bany512 hello and greetings to you and you know CS Lewis better than Walter Hooper do you? Really? To stress Hooper himself became Catholic. Just as a matter of information James 2: 24 2 "As you can see, a man is justified by his deeds and NOT by faith alone." of course Martin Luther took that out of his Bible, saying he'd like to burn "Jimmy in the fire" how sad it all is . . . AVE MARIA!

[@luciusrex22]

I think he would more likely be Orthodox but who can say.

[@bany512]

@@allanlindsay8369 That Ave Maria part speaks for itself, but lets leave idolatry for now. Regarding the passage, I agree, after you got saved by faith, and not by works, lest no man shall boast, good deeds/works are important, but the point of work based salvation is that somehow you can work yourself to salvation, which, if true, then Law would have been enough and Christ would not have to die. As scripture says, its the gift of God. Ephesians 2:8-9 God bless.

[@bany512]

@@luciusrex22 you are right, as long as he believes in finished work of Christ as a method of salvation, it doesnt really matter. I just wanted to react to a classic Catholic pride claim. And I dont mean it in a demeaning way, more like politely telling your brother to control his pride.

[@AndyYoung789]

Lewis is his usual brilliant self, but there is a simpler reason why women can't be priests - though the devil is hard at work convincing us that they can. Christ had a 3-fold identity, as priest, prophet and king. Officially, a priest, when saying mass, is an "in persona Christi." That is someone "acting in the person of Christ" to bring the sacrifice on Cavalry to here and now via the Eucharist. Of course, priests do this in the other sacraments too. The point is that in the Old Covenant/Testament, and now in the New Covenant/Testament, from the righteous Abel to Melchizedek to Christ to today, rabbis and priests have always been men because the 2nd person of the Blessed Trinity is a MAN in heaven - and will be for all eternity!!! No matter what the Satanically inspired homosexual/lesbian lobby claim.

[@michelesweet533]

An error found: Acts 1:14 states along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers were in the upper room where all were filled with the Holy Spirit. He denies this Reality. I can't help but wonder whether this essay represents his merely human intellect/ wisdom, earthly, before he married, during or after his wife died. Good read Titled, A Severe Mercy, a compilation of letters between Lewis and the author, Sheldon Vanauken, whose wife also died of cancer.

[@jasonludwig2488]

What exactly is the refutation here? I'm missing it.

[@deltatheintp0263]

Regarding Lewis' statement that Mary was absent from the Pentecost.

[@lindateuling7862]

I'm an enthusiastic reader of Lewis and have been for almost 50 years. But I see this oversight on his part, too.

[@witherow777]

This is not a rejection of that reality, but simply being in error. 👍🏼 But this still does not negate his argument.

[@jhoughjr1]

wow church being a ball. kinda mind blowing. But I am a bit medicated as well. always made me contemplate god more.

[@allanlindsay8369]

Leggo MuhEggo hello and greetings to you. Yes indeed, a ball is a celebration and too few of us in this world celebrate the Church . . . . it is persecuted, criticised, attacked, moaned about and all else in the negative vein, all too often what it was instituted by Our Blessed Lord to achieve is negated and obscured. We should be celebrating the Church in and through the LOVE of Jesus Christ but all too few of us do. AVE MARIA!

[@TJPoppy]

Good channel but, Too many ads 😖

[@uiPublic]

Agiven Holy Catholic Israel's church led by Aaron & Miriam wanted keep Brother Moses as Visiting Professor but for God's timely intervention and another Marium the most beloved of Gospelors yet derided by Monkery's then on defined Medieval darkness until liberated by Martin Luther duo the Hope for Redemption depends upon Faith's & Love of Holy Bride?! For God's own identity hitherto till Christ's had been a fierce Motherly Hen to her Chics fold to grow up...

[@allenbird7783]

My perfectly reasonable comment here seems to have been deleted. May the Christian God dispatch the wicked souls of those responsible back to the Hell that spawned them.

[@CSLewisessays]

I didn't meddle, youtube is of fault here. Your comments isn't even in the "held for review" tab.

[@davidtagauri2034]

Condemning people to hell for deleting your comment on KZbin? that seems very alarming

[@Nick_fb]

@@davidtagauri2034 We cannot lose the power to condemn, even the smallest sins.