Eternal Life In C. S. Lewis The Great Divorce

Christians believe that there is a destination of either heaven or hell. Both sacrifice important goods and valuables.

    Hell is said to be the worst place to ever exist, and it is greatly feared about on earth and in the minds of people. “Hell is gaping for them, the flames gather and flash about them, and would fain lay hold on them and swallow them up,” this illustrates personification in giving the flames of hell the live ability to hold and swallow us. It portrays how we will be consumed by our own sins if we do not act on them to better ourselves. If we let our sins pile up they will weigh us down and we will eventually be brought down to hell to pay for our wrong doings.

According to MacDonald, heaven and hell cannot coexist in a single soul, and while it is possible to leave hell and enter heaven, doing so implies turning away (repentance); or as depicted by Lewis, giving up paltry worldly pleasures and self-indulgences — which have become impossible for the dead anyway — and embracing ultimate and unceasing joy itself.

Heaven is a conceptual place where the human race will end up after their life on earth. It is a place where no sin is found causing everyone to live in complete peace. But what if living a life without sin is unimaginably difficult? And what if being confronted about your sins made you want to turn away from a life of perfection? C.S. Lewis makes a claim about this concern in his book, The Great Divorce. He analyzes the behavior of humans in accordance with their sinful habits. The Great Divorce focuses on the point of view of the Narrator who lives in a gloomy and dismal Hell when an otherworldly bus stops by and takes the passengers to Heaven. Everyone is eager to get on the bus when promised an oasis from the gloomy setting of Hell. Once

Meriwether Lewis was a great founder of most of the U.S during the Lewis & Clark Expedition but is not famously known for he had a sudden and mysterious death. His death was never concluded but they expected it was a suicide. This made him less notable because he died fairly early in his career. This makes the most reasonable cause of death murder. He was governor of Louisiana. Even though it was a lot of work. And when he died he was actually going to talk to president about the money he didn’t have to finance his area. But we’ll get to that later (3 & 4 paragraph). But with the factual and autopsy evidence proves his death was a homicide.

In The Great Divorce, it is all about being lost and showing how hard it is to find the way to the right path. C.S. Lewis puts a new spin on how someone will see hell, satan, and purgatory. There is not much happiness in life when there is nothing but temptation and hatred in front of that person. Many people forget that Earth is just a place to begin not a place to begin. Having belief in heaven is not possible when doubt fills a person’s

Robert Herrick, an English poet, once said, “Hell is no other but a soundlesse pit, where no one beame of comfort peeps in it.” Picture any type of Hell with relief, happiness, or even the smallest crack of a smile. There is no place. In fact, one can only think of the complete opposite, whether it is a Hell filled with neglect, pain, disgust, or a never-ending life of horror. This is the place created by Dante Alighieri; The Inferno is exactly the type of Hell where no person would want to be. Even those who acted upon the lightest of sins suffered greatly. While each realm contained a different sinner, the punishment that each were forced to face was cruel, repulsive, and sometimes rather disgusting. Through grieving tears without an

In his novel The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis depicts two settings: one of a grey town where whatever you want is provided for you and another of grand pasture. These settings, in the book, represent Heaven in Hell in a way, depending on which character's perspective the places are viewed from. However, the places that the main character visits and the journey that he takes is one that can be used to model the journey of our spiritual walk. Similar to how the protagonist starts in a bleak town then travels through a beautiful but harsh pasture towards the mountains, our lives start in the darkness of sin, but then we travel through the treacherous but worthwhile journey of faith towards eternity with God.

Hell seems to be like a place where people tend to just go with the motions. Only the people who truly want to leave will. In the book of Revelation, Hell is described as fiery lake of burning sulfur. This scripture lines up most with what I have been taught about Hell.

Lewis’s own bygones as an atheist questionably give his points more weight for any reader. The innuendo of this move is that faith can lead one to adopt a more fair-minded tone and perspective of the universe to look at life. He splits religions into the agnostic view and the moral horizon. Besides, he calls Muslims Mohammedans, founded on the belief that Muslims worship Mohammed in the same intelligence that Christians worship Christ.

“They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.” (Green) The Divine Comedy is a text that is divided into three parts, the most famous of which being Inferno. Inferno follows Dante through his epic journey through the nine circles of hell in his attempt to achieve a higher understanding of the afterlife. Dante is a man that seems to have, both physically and metaphorically wandered into a very dark place. He has begun to sin without

There are two types of hell, the lower hell and the upper hell, the upper hell contains the sinner who commit little sin and in the lower are the ones that commit the worse sin. Now what would happen if a place like hell wouldn't exist as a punishment for all sinners, the answer is there will be not justice. Justice was made by god so that all humans were treated equally. It will not be just to let these people who spread pain and hated get away with such as demonic acts which is in contrast of what God wants for the humanity. It’s not god’s fault that these sinners had to be punish for all the sins they've cause throughout their lifetime. Although we’re imperfect beings, we have limited knowledge, limited power,etc. we do share something especial that was given from God and this is Free

The Great Divorce is an allegorical book that takes the narrator on a bus ride from hell to heaven. Lewis’ idea is to show that one reaches heaven rather then hell or purgatory. Heaven and hell are described as very real places as both distinguished by either eternal happiness or despair. Lewis develops themes that affects a Christian’s salvation such as pride, arrogance, and love. All the ghost within entering the heaven are given a chance to stay only if they repent by accepting God and letting go of their petty interests. There are many examples given of such people who simply do not give up their pride, ego, and vice and return to the gray town or the hell. This extended metaphor describes in detail what prevents people from choosing heaven

When someone passes away most people never speak of whether that individual went to heaven or hell. No one ever wants to bring up the reasons why someone might be denied into the gates of heaven and sent to hell. It’s also easier to remember to good instead of the bad, but what about those who will spend eternity in hell? In Dante’s Inferno, as Dante travels he comes across many important people that get to voice their stories on why and how they ended up going to hell. These stories give Dante a greater understanding on why hell exists.

When a person commits a sin on earth, their punishment awaits in hell unless the sinner repents of their wrongdoing. In Christian theology, hell is the place or state that God's authoritative judgment condemns the person to spend eternity. There are three predominant theories on the nature of hell. The first, the traditional view, held by many, that when a person dies, they face judgment and based upon the outcome of the judgment, they will either be granted eternal life or eternal damnation and punishment. Secondly, the annihilationist theory that believes that the continuation of the soul is a gift given from God only to the redeemed. The unrepentant sinners will be punished in a state of hell, but it will cease at the time of the final resurrection