I’m not sure if C.S. Lewis thought if we were alone or if there were other beings in the Universe (perhaps the later). I know that he did posit the idea that if there were other beings he wondered if they had fallen into sin or if they were still in their Garden of Eden.
And then he wrote something that I find amazing. Something along the lines of how we were the fortunate ones to have fallen into sin so that we could experience the wonderful grace of God.
Interesting and profound way of looking at it. Although it might just be him making lemonaide out of lemons. I’d prefer to be in the Garden of Eden with God. (Well - until I screwed up and got cast out.)
Yep. It’s very interesting to ponder.
I recently came up with two theories.
1. There was nothing special about the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Rather, he told us not to eat of it and, when we did, we had knowledge of good and evil. We had disobeyed and we were ashamed. In the end, it was just another tree.
And I think of it like he’s dad, we’re a 12 year old, and the tree is the car. He tells us not to drive it, but we take the keys and take it for a spin. In the end, he was going to, when we were 16 and ready, give us the keys and give us the car, but we rushed it and smacked a tree joyriding.