tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post512461044549547818..comments2024-03-28T00:17:55.823+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: How does salvation-damnation work? A choice of The Moment - described by CS LewisBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-50812239328400838322020-04-27T14:03:31.188+01:002020-04-27T14:03:31.188+01:00First is that all decisions are irreversible - in ...<i>First is that all decisions are irreversible - in the sense that they have permanent consequences. </i><br /><br />One of my favourite scenes from Narnia is in Dawn Treader, when Lucy gets caught reading the book as she shouldn't.<br /><br /><i>After a little pause he spoke again. “Child,” he said, “I think you have been eavesdropping.”<br /><br /> “Eavesdropping?” <br /><br />“You listened to what your two schoolfellows were saying about you.”<br /><br /> “Oh that? I never thought that was eavesdropping, Aslan. Wasn’t it magic?”<br /><br /> “Spying on people by magic is the same as spying on them in any other way. And you have misjudged your friend. She is weak, but she loves you. She was afraid of the older girl and said what she does not mean.”<br /><br />“I don’t think I’d ever be able to forget what I heard her say.”<br /><br />"No, you won’t.”</i><br /><br />"No, you won't" - I like how Aslan leaves it hanging, a bit awkwardly, yet from his perspective nothing more needs to be said.<br /><br />I might be wrong, but I find that this scene is underrated, or under-discussed, and I am not sure why. I think that most people draw a different lesson than I, focusing usually on the part about eavesdropping or about human weakness in the face of peer pressure.<br /><br />I am very happy (thankful?) to be able to say that in my life I have made very few "bad" decisions, or decisions I regret, but I have made some, and down the road I was able to see (some of) the consequences of those. <br /><br />But importantly, I was unable to grasp how things could have turned out differently had I made a better choice. I was left simply with a hazy, vague sense that things could somehow have been "better". And it was permanent, and I expect never to find out what might have been.Matthew Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10705518098650594541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-56484747770612649032020-04-27T12:09:21.987+01:002020-04-27T12:09:21.987+01:00The odd thing was that before God closed in on me,...<i>The odd thing was that before God closed in on me, I was in fact offered what now appears a moment of wholly free choice.</i><br /><br />This is the crux so many rationalists refuse to see - that there must be choice in order for there to be faith. The coercion brought to bear by the PTB is antithetical to Christianity.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.com