Interesting insights by C.S. Lewis
“We
have longings that can never be fully satisfied in this world. Those longings
are an indication of a fulfillment only available in the next world/Heaven.”
Hope
means that we are to look forward to the eternal world (but not as a form of
escapism).
Hope
does not mean that we are to leave the present world as it is.
Historically,
the Christians who made the greatest difference in this world, are the ones
most fixed on the next
“Aim at Heaven and you will get earth ‘thrown in’: aim at
earth and you will get neither. It seems a strange rule, but something like it
can be seen at work in other matters.”
There
is no need to be worried by facetious people who try to make the Christian hope
of ‘Heaven’ ridiculous by saying they do not want ‘to spend eternity playing
harps’. The answer to such people is that if they cannot understand books
written for grown-ups, they should not talk about them.
The
biblical language of heaven: harps, crowns, gold, etc., are metaphorical for…
- Harps: Music-> ecstasy
- Crowns: united with God in splendor, power and joy
- Gold: timelessness, preciousness, no-decay
People
who take these symbols literally might as well think that when Christ told us
to be like doves, He meant that we were to lay eggs.
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