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Questions for God

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Questions for God

Postby woodward.72 » March 7th, 2006, 8:27 pm

Could anybody point out a passage that might be considered as C.S. Lewis's response to the following non-Christian question for God? Thank you in advance.

Why don't you show yourself? You supposedly made us and want us to believe in you, right? Why the big mystery? You're also omnipresent, right? Why don't you show yourself to all of us at once and have a personal discussion with us? You can pick the date and time, we'll all stop what we are doing, I'm sure.
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re: Questions for God

Postby bekados » March 7th, 2006, 8:58 pm

Isn't The Horse and His Boy considered to be evangelical? I bet you could find some good passages in there. Sorry, I always go for the Narnia Chronicles first. Oh, and definitely Mere Christianity (ch 2, Book 2)...how about The Pilgrim's Regress?
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Re: re: Questions for God

Postby Theo » March 7th, 2006, 9:07 pm

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re: Questions for God

Postby bekados » March 7th, 2006, 9:14 pm

I think it's the one. "Evangelical" in that we see Aslan reaching out to people who are not Narnians. Aravis is Calormene (right?) but she is held to the same standard as the Narnians and given the same position. Kind of the Jew and Gentile stance. The Narnians aren't the "one and only" people. "Let whosoever will, come."
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re: Questions for God

Postby jo » March 8th, 2006, 2:25 pm

Aslan doesn't seem to reach ou to very MANY of the Calormenes, it has to be said.
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Re: re: Questions for God

Postby Stanley Anderson » March 8th, 2006, 3:31 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: Questions for God

Postby Steve » March 13th, 2006, 7:04 pm

Psalm 139:17 How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!
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