“Dios no está en el tiempo. Su vida no consta de momentos que se suceden unos a otros. Si un millón de personas le están orando a las diez y media de esta noche, Él no necesita escucharlas a todas en ese preciso y mínimo espacio de tiempo que nosotros llamamos las diez y media. Las diez y media —y todos los demás momentos desde el principio del mundo— es siempre el presente para Él. Si preferís verlo de esta manera, Dios tiene la eternidad para escuchar el pequeño fragmento de oración que le ofrece el piloto al tiempo que su avión cae envuelto en llamas.”
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Clive Staples Lewis was born in Ireland, in Belfast on 29 November 1898. His mother was a devout Christian and made efforts to influence his beliefs. When she died in his early youth her influence waned and Lewis was subject to the musings and mutterings of his friends who were decidedly agnostic and atheistic. It would not be until later, in a moment of clear rationality that he first came to a belief in God and later became a Christian.
C. S. Lewis volunteered for the army in 1917 and was wounded in the trenches in World War I. After the war, he attended university at Oxford. Soon, he found himself on the faculty of Magdalen College where he taught Mediaeval and Renaissance English.
Throughout his academic career he wrote clearly on the topic of religion. His most famous works include the Screwtape Letters and the Chronicles of Narnia. The atmosphere at Oxford and Cambridge tended to skepticism. Lewis used this skepticism as a foil. He intelligently saw Christianity as a necessary fact that could be seen clearly in science.
"Surprised by Joy" is Lewis's autobiography chronicling his reluctant conversion from atheism to Christianity in 1931.