ould nurture our hope for the time when we will be perfectly fulfilled in the presence of God. Beyond these virtues Lewis argues the importance of faith in moral law. It is faith that Lewis says will lead you to good action and over all good actions are all that matter in living out these virtues of a moral life. In essence only faith then, matters. These moral laws are Lewis’ most important message in the book because they provide the backbone for the Christian belief. The Laws both seem to be the tendency of human behavior but often times not the chosen actions of our behavior. Lewis refutes the fallacy that Christianity is about us performing to God's specifications that He has set down in the Moral Law. Our obedience to the Law does not bring about salvation. Our behavior is neither an exam on which we will be graded to gain entrance to Heaven, or it is not a bargain between humans and God that, if we keep our end of the deal by following the moral law then He will keep His end of the deal by granting us with eternal life. Following the laws merely gives us a way to chose a good virtuous life over the natural tendency to choose immoral things when it is inconvenient to do good and our desires call us in the other direction. In the beginning of the book Lewis compared situations where moral decisions were at stake, to keys on a piano. In some situations they keys were right and in others wrong, depending on the tune you are playing. In book three Lewis describes what the basic rudiments of “Moral music” thus defining the bounds of the songs we as humans can properly write and play and still be recognized as music. As in real music there is a structure and there are rules on how songs can be put together. When the structure is not followed it is very hard to play music that is beautiful to listen to because it would lack a melody with all the harmonies that are pleasing to the ear. As for the seven virtues and Moral...
