The analogy breaks down the messages revealed in the Bible so that the average person understands what is being said, in the same way that Jesus used parables to explain his teachings to the mass. public. The people who listened to Jesus' sermons were not very educated and had little prior knowledge of who Jesus was. He had to make his sermons accessible to the public, just as CS Lewis does with his readers. In the novel, Lewis also only covers what he considers "the basic teaching of orthodox Christianity." Many theologians either focused on details that were unimportant to a new believer or wrote in a way that was difficult for the average person to understand. Lewis did not consider himself educated enough to provide a detailed theological and historical explanation of the doctrines he discusses, but due to the lack of simplicity of religious literary works, he strove to educate people on the broad outlines of the Christian beliefs (Mueller). Lewis explained his purpose in writing Mere Christianity in an interesting way,