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Friday, September 21, 2012

You Trying to Say that Jesus Christ Can't Hit a Curveball? (Part III)


C.S. Lewis, the posthumously canonized Pope of Evangelicalism, wrote this concerning Jesus’ understanding of incorporeal beings:  
Some people would like to reject all such elements from Our Lord’s teaching: and it might be argued that when he emptied himself of His glory He also humbled Himself to share, as man, the current superstitions of His time. And I certainly think that Christ, in the flesh, was not omniscient—if only because the human brain could not, presumably, be the vehicle of omniscient consciousness, and to say that Our Lord’s thinking was not really conditioned by the size and shape of His brain might be to deny the real incarnation and become a Docetist. Thus if Our Lord had committed Himself to any scientific or historical statement which we knew to be untrue, this would not disturb my faith in His Deity… (The Problem of Pain, pp137-138)*
If Aslan said it, I believe it, and that settles it.

anthony

*My gratitude to Robert C. Barrett (Ph.D. x2) for this quotation.

4 comments:

  1. That Aslan quote is a bumper sticker waiting to be made.

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  2. Why is it that Aslan's words ring the truest of all? Is it because Jesus spoke in riddles to confound the proud and Aslan in child-speak to comfort the innocent?

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  3. Well, it might be because talking animals are awesome and lions are the awesomest.

    The real question is this: Why is it that I (a) love Aslan, (b) love Liam Neeson, but (c) hate Liam Neeson as Aslan?

    anthony

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  4. I'm in complete agreement. I didn't like the CGI either, you'd think we considered his very essence Holy or something. ; )

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