However, he highlights the phrase to show how the feeling can be present and hidden under seemingly common and innocent expressions. The demonic reasons for encouraging the attitude “I’m as good as you” are legion. To begin with, it’s not true. “It is idle to say that men are of equal value. If the value is taken in a worldly sense—if we mean that all men are equally useful or beautiful or good or entertaining—then it is nonsense.”4Lewis even challenges the belief that we are all equally valuable as immortal souls. God did not love or die for people because of some value he perceived in them; in and of ourselves, our value in relation to God is zero. God loves us not because we are lovable but because he is love. If the phrase “God loves all equally” has any meaning, the equality lies in his love, not in us.
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