so.....Your presumption is that the chronicles of narnia are about C.C Lewis struggle with his faith. But you should not be presenting that as fact. I can see how you could interpret it that way, but I do not recall Lewis ever saying that anywhere.
Note: Before the Hordes attempt to descend on me, I am a messianic Jew. what does that mean? That I believe in Messiah ((Jesus)). It also means I am less religious than your average agnostic or atheist. My faith leads me to believe that Christ did not come here to give us a new set of rules to replace the old ones. He came to redeem us from sin.
So I am not here to defend the church or organized religion. I am saying that while I could posit the same things that Bob is saying from having read not only The Chronicles, but pretty much everything else CS ever wrote ((My other favorite is the Screwtape Letters)) that no one really knows what Lewis was feeling or why he wrote the Chronicles.
Moreover, to understand Lewis' style of Gospel is to simply understand that not all of us believe wholeheartedly in every single bit of the Bible. I can point out many things that have been mistranslated from Hebrew into English. I can show you places where what Jesus says conflicts with what his contemporaries ((I am eyeballing you, Paul)) would later write.
My point, Bob, is that you seem to have serious issues with religion, and it colors every review you do that has anything to do with religion. you have never come out and admitted that, and it bothers me.
I have issues with religion, organized as it is, but then I am not an internet celebrity with the power to influence people. I talk with people all the time about my faith, about what I believe, but I am not preachy and I do not stuff things down peoples throats. That is not what Jesus would do.
I think that Aslan is a better representation of the whole of what Christ is than any other modern interpretation of the Messiah.
/rant
Note: Before the Hordes attempt to descend on me, I am a messianic Jew. what does that mean? That I believe in Messiah ((Jesus)). It also means I am less religious than your average agnostic or atheist. My faith leads me to believe that Christ did not come here to give us a new set of rules to replace the old ones. He came to redeem us from sin.
So I am not here to defend the church or organized religion. I am saying that while I could posit the same things that Bob is saying from having read not only The Chronicles, but pretty much everything else CS ever wrote ((My other favorite is the Screwtape Letters)) that no one really knows what Lewis was feeling or why he wrote the Chronicles.
Moreover, to understand Lewis' style of Gospel is to simply understand that not all of us believe wholeheartedly in every single bit of the Bible. I can point out many things that have been mistranslated from Hebrew into English. I can show you places where what Jesus says conflicts with what his contemporaries ((I am eyeballing you, Paul)) would later write.
My point, Bob, is that you seem to have serious issues with religion, and it colors every review you do that has anything to do with religion. you have never come out and admitted that, and it bothers me.
I have issues with religion, organized as it is, but then I am not an internet celebrity with the power to influence people. I talk with people all the time about my faith, about what I believe, but I am not preachy and I do not stuff things down peoples throats. That is not what Jesus would do.
I think that Aslan is a better representation of the whole of what Christ is than any other modern interpretation of the Messiah.
/rant
