Narnia

[Giaour]

In the last battle, an ape makes a donkey dress up in a lion skin to pretend to be aslan. The false aslan then deceives narnia and starts a world war. Aslan then comes and judges the good and the bad. I loved it when aslan told certain people to go to his right and others to his left. He was separating the wheat from the tares. Revelations for narnia.

[Giaour]

parable

n 1: a short moral story (often with animal characters) [syn: fable, allegory, apologue] 2: (New Testament) any of the stories told by Jesus to convey his religious message; "the parable of the prodigal son"

Is this not the discription of Narnia stories?

[Giaour]

I don't see what the problem with the narnia books is all about.

Especially if they can be used to help people to see and understand the morality taught in the Bible.

[Gerioke]

I don't see what the problem with the narnia books is all about.

Especially if they can be used to help people to see and understand the morality taught in the Bible.

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There is no problem other than the fear that some have for the creative mind.

[Giaour]

It's not that I dislike the fact some don't want to read the books. What bothers me most is the fact that some call them evil and wicked and pagan and leading people astray.

That upsets me.

A lot of good can come from this series of books.

If the movie stays true to the books, the movie can be a good thing as well.

[kodischild]

I think that Narnia is a great way to reach kids. Aslan is easy to love. I can imagine curling up to a big, strong, peaceful lion and feeling safe enough to sleep.

As a child I saw the pictures of Jesus' on the cross. I heard my grandma say that someday Jesus was going to come take the Christians away and leave the bad people here. Being a child I assumed that since I hadn't cleaned my room I would be left with the bad people, or some such nonsense. So I have to admit that when I was very small I knew I should love Jesus, but I didn't exactly understand how. He was scary to me.

Understanding Jesus as Aslan might help bridge the gap for some children, and I think there is very little fear that we will grow into adults still in love with a lion.

[Giaour]

I liked how aslan greeted His followers with his cold nose on the forehead and a lions lick on the face. Like greeting eachother with a Holy kiss.

He also breathed on them to let them know he was near.

Awesome

[Gerioke]

I liked how aslan greeted His followers with his cold nose on the forehead and a lions lick on the face.  Like greeting eachother with a Holy kiss.

He also breathed on them to let them know he was near.

Awesome

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Jesus breathed the Holy Spirit into His disciples.

[Giaour]

Grace in narnia

from a celebration in joy.

The clearest example of grace and faith in Narnia comes in The Voyage of the "Dawn Treader" where Eustace, who had become a dragon because of his own dragonish thoughts, is changed back into a boy. Three times Eustace tries to peel off the dragon skin on his own, only to find that beneath each layer is another of the same. As Eustace tells the story,

"Then the lion [Aslan] said . . . You will have to let me undress you. I was afraid of his claws, I can tell you, but I was pretty nearly desperate now. So I just lay flat on my back to let him do it." (90)

Faith for Eustace meant ceasing his own efforts and letting Aslan do what he could not. The process was painful. Says Eustace, "The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart. And when he began pulling the skin off, it hurt worse than anything I've ever felt" (90). Eustace's experience teaches that in Narnia grace is not by works but faith, and faith often is accompanied by pain.

The joy in grace comes in pain's aftermath, the exhilaration of being free from the dragon skin, the peace of past sins forgiven, the delight of a fresh start. Grace means a new identity, a chance to no longer see oneself as a dragon but a boy again, and not just a regular boy but a king in Narnia with a bright and glorious future. For while transformation in Narnia is never complete, it is sure. Lewis comments,

It would be nice, and fairly nearly true, to say that "from that time forth Eustace was a different boy." To be strictly accurate, he began to be a different boy. He had relapses. There were still many days when he could be very tiresome. But most of those I shall not notice. The cure had begun. (93)

[Giaour]

Then Hwin, though shaking all over, gave a strange little neigh, and trotted across to the Lion.

"Please," she said, "you're so beautiful. You may eat me if you like. I'd sooner be eaten by you than fed by anyone else."

"Dearest daughter," said Aslan, planting a lion's kiss on her twitching, velvet nose, "I knew you would not be long in coming to me. Joy shall be yours." (193)