Thursday, August 25, 2005

New Problem: Dwarfss


What about the dwarfs of Aslan?
Did Jesus really close the gates?
-- salvation as conditonal (only if you accept the hand, will you be saved); freedom unmessed by God.
-- true, but we will never not accept the hand as had been said.
--the ultimate meaning of the cross is that everyone is saved from becoming nothing.
--everyone can do evil with corresponding consequences of turning less and less human/perfect till the helll part, where they eventually realize and repent.

How about MONSTERS? Do they exist?
--Gee. I don’t wanna know… : -(, reserved for next time. What are monsters? Being creation is having the capacity for being perfect. Monsters with reason vs. animalistic monsters… etc etc etc)




Did aslan really leave the dwarfs to wallow in their denials/confusion? C.S. lewis didn’t continue the story of the dwarves… what could have happened to them…

Case: Dwarfs thrown in the barn – dead – they think they are still in the barn but actually they are already in paradise. But they don’t realize that. They were wallowing in their own thoughts.
Aslan gives them more and more and more food. (implies a non cruel lion, not wild either, but loving. Ok! Resolved!! Aslan is all perfect. He only resorts to seemingly cruel attititudes to help his creatures grow)
The Dwarfs take the gifts but thinking of them as mere stuff in the barn.

Possibility A: Dwarfs: oh im getting fat with this stuff. This musn’t be barn stuff. Oh gracious! Im in Aslan’s Country!
-- blessings are realized…. One sees the reality… one repents…

Possibility B: Dwarfs get thinner and thinner. Their minds make what they eat unnutritious. Mind power makes real what they think (placebo effect)… possible kaya? Hmmm…

Another question of the possibility of complete total denial….
ASLAN must CARE for the dwafs!! His perfection requires him to care about the least of his creatures even these despicable dwarfs. He wouldn’t give up on them. He’ll keep on giving food, giving and giving. He will alter their environment/sourroindings to make them realize all their gifts and blessedness…

Can one totally deny such magnitude of love and generousity??? Huh???
Let’s get more real: do I know anyone who seems hopless and always denying the goodness of lfe? Is there someone else like the dwarfs in reality?

Sin—denial of the gifts of God. Can one be stuck in hell, stuck in the pit? This was already resolved pala… Aslan has done his work. The gates to nothing are closed. The continous offer of food is given like the extendable hand of Jesus from the bridge…

Aha!!! Salvation is for everybody unconditionally, universally. The cross embraces alll all all all. He can’t mess with our own free will. But we eventually realize the consequences we give to ourselves due to denying him when we feel the pain of crashing to the ground, the pain of hunger, the pain of fire, or wwhatever word we can use to describe the end point of denial. The pain wasn’t caused by God but by the influence of “nothing” on us.
Gee.. im confused…

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