Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people’s minds under
cover of romance without their knowing it.”
~ C. S. Lewis, 9 August 1939, in The Collected Letters of C. S.
Lewis, as quoted by Michael John Beasely in his article, "
That's a bad thing, because Lewis loved universalist George
MacDonald. Both wrote fiction that incorporated their bad theology and fed it
to the masses. Those of Christ, on the other hand:
2Co 4:2 But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse
to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word, but by the open statement of
the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone's conscience in the sight of
God.
Confusion is not of the biblical God. Neither is trying to sneak in
doctrines.
Jud 1:4 For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were
designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our
God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
Beasely went on to say:
"One of the interesting things about Lewis’ work, The Great Divorce, is that the question ofUniversalism is never completely answered. According to Lewis’ Master, “all answers deceive,” and so the reader is dissuaded from looking into such a query.[10] Though the reader may not recognize it, Lewis’ fictionally constructed dialogue with MacDonald affords him the opportunity to present the words of Lady Julian, a 14th century mystic and Universalist. In her collection of claimed revelations from Christ entitled, Revelations of Divine Love, Lady Julian recorded the following...." Go here for the article.
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