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To: saquin
When did I say that? Narnia is not the Bible.

Right. Narnia isn't the Bible, but if you've truly read the series, you will see many, many, MANY parallels between it and the Bible. But, of course, if you've never opened a Bible, you wouldn't notice these glaring similarities, but Narnia is still a good read, whether your a practicing Christian or not.

Like I've said, the Magician's Nephew is much like the Book of Genesis of the Bible, and The Last Battle is much like the Bible's Book of Revelations. Aslan the King in this story would be Jesus, The King of all, Lord of lords, in the Bible. Of course, toward the end of the movie, Aslan is sacrificed on an altar, much like the fact Jesus was sacrificed on the cross. Aslan sacrificed his life for his followers....., and so on, and so forth. Need I carry on?

I think most people can see who is and isn't an "intellectual lightweight" in this conversation.

Set, match, game.

448 posted on 12/30/2005 10:49:26 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper ("Tucker Carlson could reveal himself as a castrated, lesbian, rodeo clown ...wouldn't surprise me")
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To: BigSkyFreeper

Look, it's nearly 2am and I'm not in the mood to stay up all night and argue in circles with you but you are wrong if you think the Chronicles of Narnia should be read simply as a strict parallel to the Bible. If C.S. Lewis really meant it to be that, he would have started as the Bible did, with the Book of Genesis equivalent (the creation of Narnia). But he didn't. He started with "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" as Book 1. Which is how millions of people the world over read the books for decades, starting in 1950 when it was first published. And yes, we all understood the series perfectly well. And it became beloved the world over despite not being strictly chronological. Fancy that.

There's only one Bible. Leave Narnia as what it is. A fanciful children's series, full of wonderful characters and stories and with a clear, though not strict, allegorical relation to Christianity. Don't confuse the two.

G'night.


449 posted on 12/30/2005 10:58:58 PM PST by saquin
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