Re: REALLY long comment, part 4

Date: 2009-05-07 05:51 am (UTC)
I find that comment incredibly interesting, because some Christians have problems with LB because they think Lewis is too inclusionist: allowing Emeth into heaven despite the fact that he worshiped Tash.

But I also have to correct you on your assumptions about the Christian God. Yes, he is a god of love: he is love. But he is also a just god. The basic Christian idea of humanity is that we have become 'bent': we view ourselves as gods and want to be left alone to worship ourselves and our pleasures, to put it one way. Those who do not, through grace, love God would not want to be anywhere near him: it's like when you're next to someone who is close to perfect and you can't stand being near them because they make you aware of your faults. It would be unjust for God to force people who don't want to be anywhere near him to stand in his presence for eternity. It would be cruel. So God gives them what they want: to be away from him, to live their own lives without his presence. And, like the dwarfs in LB, they'll live exactly how they expect to live.

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We'll have to agree to disagree on the progress of time in LWW. It's a magic winter, let's leave it at that. =D

I think I mentioned it somewhere else, but since the Narnian world is not our world, the incarnation and the passion would be different: that's what Lewis is saying. It's not a one-to-one correlation because there worlds don't correlate one-to-one.And, as I mentioned, Lewis didn't start out intending to write Aslan as Christ: it just happened over time, so his characterization of Aslan in LWW was a little off.

Ok, I think that's all I have. Let's see if all these comments come through. =D
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