Mere Christianity

In the first four chapters that we read, it talked about how there's this thing called 'The Law of Human Nature.' This Law of Nature is like that law that defines what is right and wrong, but there is no need to be taught because everyone knows about it. While a child was playing, he mistakenly hurts his friend. Even though the child was not taught that hurting people is bad, he knows that it is bad and feels guilty. In the same way, every single country has laws against murderers. That is because everyone knows that killing people is not right, and who taught everyone that killing is not right? This is what C.S. Lewis called the Law of Nature. It is basically a common law that defines what is right and wrong even when you have never learned about it. It is the law that God wrote in each man's heart (according to what professor said). This law is not the same as those 'Decent Behaviors' that are taught at home or school. For example, in Guatemala it is taught that it is not good to make a lot of noise when you are eating. Eating manners are really important. However, in Korea, everyone eats the way you want to eat. Those eating manners that are taught in Guatemala are really different to the Korean one. These are the decent behaviors that are taught. It is not the same as the Law of Nature. The interesting part of the Law of Nature is that through it we can somehow know that there's someone or something beyond the world that we are living - beyond reality. "This Rule of Right and Wrong, or Law of Human Nature.. must somehow or other be a real thing -- a thing that is really there, not made up by ourselves. And yet it is not a fact in the ordinary sense, in the same way as our actual behaviour is a fact... It begins to look as if we shall have to admit that there is more than one kind of reality; that, in this particular case, there is something above and beyond the ordinary facts of men's behaviour, and yet quite definitely real.."