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Salvation possible after death according to Lewis?

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Salvation possible after death according to Lewis?

Postby Stylteralmaldo » May 2nd, 2005, 9:09 pm

Does anyone know what Lewis believed regarding salvation after death?

When I read the introduction of The Great Divorce, it clearly stated that the story was not necessarily to be taken as the way he viewed the afterlife.

Having said that however, I couldn't help but notice a connection with the character of Emeth in The Last Battle and Lewis's version of Purgatory in The Great Divorce.

Imagine if you will this "Great Divorce" scenario:

Emeth gets off of the bus having lived a good life and is approached by Aslan....the very God he had been taught all his life was evil.


According to the Last Battle, Emeth choses Aslan after he dies. A theological quandry....particularly since Tash was evil....and Aslan said that Emeth had followed Aslan although he was really following Tash. Emeth accepted Aslan at this point.

The many characters in The Great Divorce chose heaven....or chose hell after the fact as well.

Ant thoughts?

Did Lewis ever say how he felt the afterlife worked in other works by him? Did he believe that someone could chose God after they die?
...[God] uses material things like bread and wine to put new life into us. We may think that rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it. - CS Lewis...Mere Christianity
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Re: Salvation possible after death according to Lewis?

Postby Stylteralmaldo » May 4th, 2005, 3:42 pm

Well, it has been a couple days. I take it no one knows if he believed this or not.
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Re: Salvation possible after death according to Lewis?

Postby Leslie » May 4th, 2005, 3:48 pm

I believe it possible that he may have held this belief, based on snippets that I can remember (but I can also remember possibly contradictory snippets). I'm interested in pursuing the question, but I haven't had a chance to look things up and put together a reasonable reply.
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Re: Salvation possible after death according to Lewis?

Postby Stylteralmaldo » May 5th, 2005, 2:10 pm

...[God] uses material things like bread and wine to put new life into us. We may think that rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it. - CS Lewis...Mere Christianity
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Re: Salvation possible after death according to Lewis?

Postby Stanley Anderson » May 5th, 2005, 3:17 pm

…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.
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Re: Salvation possible after death according to Lewis?

Postby pjb0015 » May 21st, 2005, 4:12 am

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Re: Salvation possible after death according to Lewis?

Postby Sylvia Lee » May 24th, 2005, 5:08 am

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Take my lips, and let them be filled with messages from thee.
Take my hands and let them move at the impulse of thy love.
Take my feet and let them be swift and beautiful for thee.
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Re: Salvation possible after death according to Lewis?

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Postby magpie » May 24th, 2005, 2:58 pm

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Re: Salvation possible after death according to Lewis?

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