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Feb. 28th, 2009 07:33 amI didn't have time to finish the post I made last night because Andrew said he was making food and we went over to help him eat it before doing Bible study. I discovered that I like Stash's acai berry tea a lot.
Anyway, one thing I was going to post about yesterday was Spot. He used to go beside the fridge, squeeze around the corner, and get behind the stove. Yesterday he had to face the unpleasant truth that he is no longer able to do that. I felt so bad for the poor baby. He must have tried like twenty times to make that corner, and every time he'd back out he'd look up and me and cry because he couldn't do it. I tried to explain to him that that was what happened when you grow up, but I am not sure he understood.
The other thing that I've been mulling over, and brought up to Dan yesterday, is the way CS Lewis has so many Adventist concepts, specifically concepts presented by Ellen White, down pat in his books. Existence of other worlds unfallen. Adam and Eve having been specifically warned, as Aslan warned the one boy whose name I don't remember, about the fact that they would be tempted before Satan showed up and got them to eat the fruit. The way Satan's mind works. Just to name a few.
Every book I've read so far of Lewis' seems to present some concept or other that would be familiar to anyone in the Adventist church who is at least a little familiar with Ellen White.
So my question is, was Lewis familiar with her writings, or did he come up with this stuff on his own?
Obviously, I'm not putting Lewis on the same... level, for lack of a better word... as Ellen White. He was not a prophet in the way she was. Still, that would not stop God from giving him some of the same ideas He revealed to her.
Lewis may not have always used the ideas to the best of their advantage, but the ideas are there nonetheless.
It's just really fascinating me, and Dan agreed once I started pointing out specific things that hit me that way, that God is God and truth is not limited to be revealed to just one person.
That being said, I'm really enjoying Perelandra.
I'm kind of feeling like backing out on having anyone over today. I'm just still really tired.
Anyway, one thing I was going to post about yesterday was Spot. He used to go beside the fridge, squeeze around the corner, and get behind the stove. Yesterday he had to face the unpleasant truth that he is no longer able to do that. I felt so bad for the poor baby. He must have tried like twenty times to make that corner, and every time he'd back out he'd look up and me and cry because he couldn't do it. I tried to explain to him that that was what happened when you grow up, but I am not sure he understood.
The other thing that I've been mulling over, and brought up to Dan yesterday, is the way CS Lewis has so many Adventist concepts, specifically concepts presented by Ellen White, down pat in his books. Existence of other worlds unfallen. Adam and Eve having been specifically warned, as Aslan warned the one boy whose name I don't remember, about the fact that they would be tempted before Satan showed up and got them to eat the fruit. The way Satan's mind works. Just to name a few.
Every book I've read so far of Lewis' seems to present some concept or other that would be familiar to anyone in the Adventist church who is at least a little familiar with Ellen White.
So my question is, was Lewis familiar with her writings, or did he come up with this stuff on his own?
Obviously, I'm not putting Lewis on the same... level, for lack of a better word... as Ellen White. He was not a prophet in the way she was. Still, that would not stop God from giving him some of the same ideas He revealed to her.
Lewis may not have always used the ideas to the best of their advantage, but the ideas are there nonetheless.
It's just really fascinating me, and Dan agreed once I started pointing out specific things that hit me that way, that God is God and truth is not limited to be revealed to just one person.
That being said, I'm really enjoying Perelandra.
I'm kind of feeling like backing out on having anyone over today. I'm just still really tired.
