Comments on: Easter Sunday

By: lonelypilgrim

lonelypilgrim — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:44:43 +0000

After I typed what I did, I thought about Romans 8. Especially verses 18-23 which state, paraphrased, that all of creation longs for redemption, and of course the whole chapter ties redemption to Christ. So perhaps, if life is on other planets, Christ’s work on earth has the effect of redemption there as well. Granted, I’m definitely in the realm of speculation here. Holdridge, I give you absolution in advance if the fires are ever lit on this one.

Back to subject of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe for a moment. My favorite line from the book, and I’m paraphrasing again because I don’t have the book at hand and I’m too lazy to go get it, is from Mr. Beaver about Aslan. “Safe? He’s a Lion, of course He isn’t safe. But He’s good. He’s the King.” If we ever decide to add anything to the canon (the fires are being lit again) that should be the line to be added.

By: revgeorge

revgeorge — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:02:14 +0000

Lewis himself said it was a moot point whether or not there was life on other planets & what provision God might have made for them, since nothing’s ever been discovered out there. He said that until somebody came down & tapped us on the shoulder, it was not worth it speculating about alien life. Plus, he said if there are other life forms out there, more advanced than we are, then we probably don’t want them finding us because they’d probably do to us what we did to more primitive societies here on earth.

By: Holdridge

Holdridge — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:14:19 +0000

Lewis deals with this (with a sidelong glance) in his sci-fi trilogy, which is by far, my favorite stuff. There’s nothing that would cause us to say that based on scripture, we’re the only planet in the universe that has created life on it. I don’t think it’s worth much time, however…

I’m the kind of guy that would love to listen to your heresy, and even give my opinion here and there. But I’m pullin’ a Peter when the torches get lit.

By: Travis Prinzi

Travis Prinzi — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:47:51 +0000

Heck, I’ll join your heretic group.

Obviously, it would be impossible to know one way or the other. It’s probably unlikely that there really would be another Christ-story in the same way, mostly because multiple incarnations would be really problematic.

By: lonelypilgrim

lonelypilgrim — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:36:43 +0000

Allow me for a moment a bit of a heretical thought. A friend of mine that I had during my seminary days and I were once discussing whether there was life on other planets or not. He said no because if the created life on another planet had also sinned God would have had to incarnated there as well to deal with it just as He had on earth. At the time I didn’t think of this, but I wish I would have said “Well, perhaps He did. Maybe the name of the place is Narnia and perhaps there His name is Aslan.” Has anyone ever considered that possibility, not that the Narnia stories are actually true, but that something like that is possible? Or should I just be burned at the stake?

By: Allison

Allison — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:22:36 +0000

Thanks for posting these excerpts, Travis. I’ve appreciated re-reading them again as the week has led up to Easter. I’ve especially notived littled details I might’ve missed when reading the books straight through. Happy Easter!