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Angels or no angels?

Postby BeeLayne » January 16th, 2007, 3:56 pm

"We are armed with the truth. What can harm us if we are armed with the truth?"
"Well, a crossbow bolt can, e.g., go right through your eye and out the back of your head."
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Postby alliebath » January 16th, 2007, 4:15 pm

Toss the idea!

There is no concept of angels in Narnia, and it rather defeats Aslan being a lion (though no ordinary lion) if he is surrounded by angels.

Would you put on play about the life of Jesus and have him surrounded by angels?

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Postby BeeLayne » January 16th, 2007, 4:21 pm

"We are armed with the truth. What can harm us if we are armed with the truth?"
"Well, a crossbow bolt can, e.g., go right through your eye and out the back of your head."
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Postby AslansGirl » January 16th, 2007, 9:35 pm

If you are what you should be, you will set the workd ablaze!
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Postby Leslie » January 16th, 2007, 11:03 pm

"What are you laughing at?"
"At myself. My little puny self," said Phillipa.
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Postby *~Diamond in the Rough~* » January 16th, 2007, 11:19 pm

Today I went to IKEA and hid in the wardrobes, and every time someone opened the doors I welcomed them to Narnia!!
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Postby Esther » January 17th, 2007, 12:19 am

I agree that the angels should go. It seems as though one might as well put a flashing sign above the stage saying "THIS IS A CHRISTIAN STORY: ASLAN EQUALS JESUS," which is exactly the thing Lewis didn't want to do with it. Even when children would write to him directly and question him regarding the Christian aspects of the story, he wouldn't give them a straight response. He wanted the story to stand on it own, with theological connections coming about naturally (if at all) in the reader's mind, not forced there prematurely.
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Postby Stanley Anderson » January 17th, 2007, 12:29 am

Maybe they could be changed to eldilla?:-)

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…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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Postby A#minor » January 17th, 2007, 2:33 am

Please, no angels. That sounds really corny, not to mention unnecessary.

However I must mention that I find it poor logic to compare the use of angels with Aslan to angels following Christ around, and conclude that both are ludicrous. Angels did follow Christ around during His earthly ministry. After He had fasted for 40 days in the wilderness, who ministered to Him?
I doubt that God would send His Son to earth without the proper escort. :wink:
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Postby BeeLayne » January 17th, 2007, 3:20 am

"We are armed with the truth. What can harm us if we are armed with the truth?"
"Well, a crossbow bolt can, e.g., go right through your eye and out the back of your head."
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Re: Angels or no angels?

Postby Messenger_of_Eden » January 17th, 2007, 5:05 am

"If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself."--St. Augustine of Hippo
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Postby Pete » January 17th, 2007, 7:12 am

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Postby Esther » January 18th, 2007, 5:41 am

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Postby Stanley Anderson » January 18th, 2007, 2:39 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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