![]() ![]() We also have the illusion that time will cancel sin (54) and that we can take refuge in the fact that all men-not just us-are bad (55). We do not see God’s reality due to the way we look at the outside of things, for example we discuss corporate guilt rather than our own as individuals. Lewis continues throughout the book to try and alert us to divine goodness and perspective. ![]() What seems to us to be good-such as not having pain-may not be good in God’s eyes “and what seems to us evil may not be evil” (28). If any parts of the book are ‘original’, in the sense of being novel or unorthodox, they are so against my will and as a result of my ignorance” (xii). Except in the last two chapters, parts of which are admittedly speculative, I have believed myself to be restating ancient and orthodox doctrines. Leis notes that “If any real theologian reads these pages he will very easily see that they are the work of a layman and an amateur. ![]() Of course, Lewis was no stranger to pain: he had arthritic pain in his hands and thumbs and was an invalid the last few years of his life. Pain, Lewis remarked in his book “The Problem of Pain” (NY: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1962) is God’s megaphone “to rouse a deaf world” (91, 93) it is his way of getting our attention and anyone who has had severe pain knows why the expression is so poignant. ![]()
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