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Lol! Way to put it Rob!
Exactly. Do you think Lewis himself would coin it as an allegory? I believe it was intended that way.
I read that as if you mean it as a negative comment (that he wasn't subtle) but I don't think he meant to be subtle. I think it's a fantastic medium for sharing the gospel. Kevin I'm sorry to hear that because these books really gave me hope that I wasn't too far gone, and that I could never be too far gone. I don't know what my life would be without that hope to ground me.
I actually DID miss it for many years. I read the series as a little girl and even though I am a pastor's kid I was too young to understand it. It wasn't until the movies came out that I began to recognize it.
Kevin wrote: "Yeah, Tessa, you aren't the only one who feels that way about them. I never felt that I was "far gone" from anything, and my life has always been grounded in other things. So it never spoke to me, ..."
"a mediocre philosopher" ...C.S. Lewis is considered one of the best. If it didn't speak to you, that's subjective, but to say he was mediocre as a philosopher would be disagreed by the top theologians of today. Mere Christianity and his other Christian words are regarded extremely highly, regardless of your own application of his ideas.
Kevin wrote: "By the way, I was answering Tessa and saying that Narnia didn't "speak to me" - that IS subjective. I didn't like it for reasons personal to me. My statement about his philosophy was simply a quali..."
I wish there was a way to 'like' on this website, rather than typing out that I agree to disagree, haha. I can understand what you're saying, it just saddens me as a believer.
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Exactly. Do you think Lewis himself would coin it as an allegory? I believe it was intended that way.
I read that as if you mean it as a negative comment (that he wasn't subtle) but I don't think he meant to be subtle. I think it's a fantastic medium for sharing the gospel. Kevin I'm sorry to hear that because these books really gave me hope that I wasn't too far gone, and that I could never be too far gone. I don't know what my life would be without that hope to ground me.
I actually DID miss it for many years. I read the series as a little girl and even though I am a pastor's kid I was too young to understand it. It wasn't until the movies came out that I began to recognize it.
Kevin wrote: "Yeah, Tessa, you aren't the only one who feels that way about them. I never felt that I was "far gone" from anything, and my life has always been grounded in other things. So it never spoke to me, ...""a mediocre philosopher" ...C.S. Lewis is considered one of the best. If it didn't speak to you, that's subjective, but to say he was mediocre as a philosopher would be disagreed by the top theologians of today. Mere Christianity and his other Christian words are regarded extremely highly, regardless of your own application of his ideas.
Kevin wrote: "By the way, I was answering Tessa and saying that Narnia didn't "speak to me" - that IS subjective. I didn't like it for reasons personal to me. My statement about his philosophy was simply a quali..."I wish there was a way to 'like' on this website, rather than typing out that I agree to disagree, haha. I can understand what you're saying, it just saddens me as a believer.
I think C.S lewis meant it to be that it wasn't like BAM in your face this is a Christian book and story so like unchristian people could enjoy it and what not, but for those who did catch it that it can be a powerful message. SO it's kind of like a hidden message in the book. IT makes since to because the author was a really good Christian.
