It’s always bothered me no end that Uncle Tom has such a bad connotation to it, when he was such a very good character. Also makes me nuts that everyone says “Scrooge” like it’s a bad thing; we should all be as lucky as him and no one kept Christmas better.
"My body may belong to you . . . but my soul belongs to the Lord!"
Scrooge experienced a re-birth. I think Dickens showed the reader hope out of sin and the benefits of a Christian way of life. God works in mysterious ways His miracles to perform.