(November 17, 2019 at 5:51 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(November 17, 2019 at 4:44 pm)Belacqua Wrote: Well, I don't know. We all get quite skillful in interpreting scripture when we want to prove something we already believed.
Surely C.S. Lewis knew that you need an airplane to go to another country. Why would he put the entrance in the back of a wardrobe?
You understand the difference between God and C.S Lewis, I hope.
Boru
The relevant comparison here would be between the author of John's Apocalypse and the author of the Narnia books.
(Unless you want to argue that the Apocalypse really was dictated verbatim by God.)
In my opinion, authors who want to get across a spiritual message tend not to emphasize scientific fact. It's likely that the author of Jonah knew you can't live in big fish, for example. Dante knew you couldn't breath above the orbit of the moon.