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I am perfectly convinced that whatever the gospels are they are not legends. i have read a great deal of legend and i am quite clear they are not that sort of thing....christ bent down and scribbled in the dust with his finger. nothing comes of this. no one has based any doctrine on it. and the act of inventing little irrelevant details to make an imaginary scene more convincing is purely a modern art.

-C. S. Lewis

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I Am Perfectly Convinced That Whatever The

C. S. Lewis

I am perfectly convinced that whatever the gospels are they are not legends. i have read a great deal of legend and i am quite clear they are not that sort of thing....christ bent down and scribbled in the dust with his finger. nothing comes of this. no one has based any doctrine on it. and the act of inventing little irrelevant details to make an imaginary scene more convincing is purely a modern art.

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All i am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...and i'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone thinks the gospels are either legends or novels, then that person is simply showing his incompetence as a literary critic. i've read a great many novels and i know a fair amount about the legends that grew up among early people, and i know perfectly well the gospels are not that kind of stuff.

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