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To: Enlightened1
All his writings, from Mere Christianity to the Screwtape Letters were Divinely inspired.

This passage once again shows his prescience of what had been Prophesized.

7 posted on 08/21/2021 9:03:54 PM PDT by PROCON (Our rights do not come from government, therefore they cannot take them away.)
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To: PROCON
Pretty sure Lewis did not think of himself inspired at least in the sense of having any kind of prophetic vision. As he made clear through his fictional portrayal of a conversation he had in the apparent after-life with George MacDonald in "The Great Divorce":

"A dream? Then-then-am I not really here, Sir?"

"No, Son," said he kindly, taking my hand in his. "It is not so good as that. The bitter drink of death is still before you. Ye are only dreaming. And if ye come to tell of what ye have seen, make it plain that it was but a dream. See ye make it very plain. Give no poor fool the pretext to think ye are claiming knowledge of what no mortal knows. I'll have no Sweden- borgsand no Vale Owens among my children."

"God forbid, Sir," said I, trying to look very wise.

"He has forbidden it. That's what I'm telling ye." As he said this he looked more Scotch than ever.

10 posted on 08/21/2021 9:13:27 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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