Into the Wardrobe

Wow!! Good quote, A#minor!

well chosen quote indeed, A#Minor. I take my hat off to whomever has that as their sig. line

if i can interject a bit of personal experience here, i chose that quote as my signature in the first place because i have been in emeth's position. if you look at the passage carefully it is emeth who said he had been serving tash his whole life, and aslan who gently corrects him: the point being that aslan knows emeth better than he knows himself. those calormenes who enslaved and mistreated the narnians were doing the will of tash, while emeth with every good deed and positive aspiration was rejecting and turning away from him. like the athenians in acts, he was serving the unknown god who was the source of righteousness until aslan (like paul) turned up to tell him who he had really been worshipping. the fact that he had formerly used the name 'Tash' is irrelevant from that perspective.

Thanks, David Jack, for bringing the quote to my attention in the first place!

This thread prompted me to register to the forums. I was recently listening to TLB on CD w/ my husband and was surprised to hear the bit about Emeth b/c I didn't remember it from reading the book years ago.
My point about Emeth is that if he had been serving Tash faithfully all his life, then he would know about the human sacrifices, etc. that even the Narnians knew about. If he had such a good heart, how could he knowingly serve such a god? And how could Aslan account that to him for righteousness?
I love reading Lewis and usually glean much inspiration from his writings, but this is one of the instances where I must strongly disagree w/ his doctrine.

Respectfully also, Arden, it would seem to me that Aslan is telling Emeth that he was seeking Truth, he might not have found out His name - Aslan, but he was seeking it. And remember what the Bible says about seeking?

How can he be following truth when he blatantly rejects Aslan, who is Truth? "You shall know the truth...". Well, he obviously did not know the truth.

The thing is, as I stated earlier, it was after death that Aslan came to him. I really wouldn't have a problem with Aslan telling him that before he went into the stable (because God is a jealous god). The Bible also says, "it is appointed for man once to die, and after this the judement" (Hebrews 9:27).