Good Sunday Morning!

1. Question – After some Christians read The Great Divorce, they have concluded that we will have a “second chance” after death to be saved. Do you think this is so?

2. Thought – The problem here is that we don’t really understand what eternity means. To say the God lives outside of time is to say that he experiences all time as a single unity: God does not foresee the future; he sees it as we see the present. Although Lewis’s theology is fully congruent with evangelical thought, he is not a Calvinist. In contrast to Calvinism, Lewis argues that God’s foreknowledge of an event does not necessitate his predestining of that event.

My seeing of a present event does not determine it; why then should God’s eternally present seeing of a future event (future to us) determine its outcome? Because God’s knowledge is ever and always a present knowledge of our present choice, our freedom is not violated; past and future don’t exist in heaven. Just so, the choices the damned souls make are eternal ones that surpass (and, thus, include) the past; as eternal states, heaven and hell work backwards. The souls that reject the offer to stay will find that they have always been in hell, while those that choose to stay will feel that heaven alone has been their home. (The Life and Writings of C. S. Lewis by Louis Markos)

“Worldviews are perceptual frameworks. They are ways of seeing… Our worldview determines our values. It helps us interpret the world around us. It sorts out what is important from what is not, what is of highest vale from what is least. A worldview then provides a model of the world which guides its adherents in the world.” (The Transforming Vision by Brian Walsh & J. Richard Middleton)

Question for you: Are you in hell right now or do you believe you are in a tiny slice of heaven?