We Must Stand Against The Devil 's Scheme

The conception of Heaven and Hell is meant to provide a means of justice in the afterlife, C.S. Lewis has a different view than the traditional idea on what that may look like. In “The Great Divorce”, Lewis defends that God is just by writing about a just version of Heaven and Hell. First, I summarize a general image of the traditional Christian idea of Heaven and Hell and explain the issues that come with it. Next, I offer C.S. Lewis’s counter position on Heaven and Hell. Lastly, I assess Lewis’s conception, arguing that it does not escape the justice issue of the traditional image of the afterlife.

Lewis refers to God, Satan and Hell many different ways. When mentioning God, he uses the term “The Enemy” which in our minds, would normally be in reference to Satan. He also refers to him as “The Father Above,” and to Satan as “Our Father Below” and “High Command.” Hell is referred to as “Our Father’s House.” “Screwtape Letters” is written with this context because it is from the point of view of a demon who goes by the name of Screwtape. This is satirical, it is the opposite of the way we would normally think. In our minds, we think of God as “High Command,” and as Our Father, not as “The

Lewis’s style of writing makes me think more and recognize Satan’s subtile deceptions. “Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts,...Your affectionate uncle, Screwtape.” The way Lewis shows the subtile ways the Satan tries to trick us into apathy, is very well done. Lewis shows

The Screwtape Letters is an inverted approach to Christianity that parallels the ideals in Ignatian spirituality. In a discussion of hell as a means of business, an Uncle, Screwtape, writes letters of psychological insight for his nephew, Wormwood, to coax his subject into turning towards Hell. Though C.S. Lewis writes from the perspective of demons, this organically highlights the truths of Christianity. Screwtape pushes Wormwood to have the patient discover evil in every dimension of his life as the patient begins to become a follower of Christianity. To note, the Christian God is labeled as the “Enemy” whereas the Devil is labeled as “Our Father Below”. In order to turn the subject away

In the novel “The Screwtape Letters,” C. S. Lewis depicts how Christians have strong reason and faith. These letters are used to contradict the bible as if god is satin and satin is god. Within the letters, the patient is supposed to be a Christian man that is being used in an experiment for the dark side. However, the patient resisted the temptations that the devil threw at him, and is able to beat the devil by having faith. This is a strong point that the narrator illustrates, because Screwtape is considered like a devil who is trying to influence his incompetent nephew, Wormwood.

(Lewis 63). When they refer to the Holy Spirit as an asphyxiating cloud it really changes the perspective to how it seems harmful to the tempters and it is also very interesting when they say that some are always protected by it and are not accessible to them at any time. One final thing about the character portrayal in this book is shown in every chapter in this book, without fail, and that is when Screwtape ends his letters. He ends them with, “Your affectionate uncle, Screwtape” (Lewis 61). It is a totally contradictory portrayal of these devilish characters that may seem to have no capacity for love, but they are just fallen angels whom are trying to do what they are

When I think of ways the Devil tries to destroy my relationship with the Lord, my thoughts usually retreat to the seemingly larger hardships we may face: loss, rejection, addiction, and so on. Things like mild annoyances and small disagreements fail to come to mind. In the first four letters of Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters, Screwtape tells his nephew to use small hindrances to distract the character known as the ‘patient’. His goal is to lead this newly reformed Christian astray. Screwtape goes on to tell Wormwood, ‘- hundreds of these adult converts have been reclaimed after a brief sojourn in the Enemy’s camp and are now with us.” This quote serves as a reminder that Christians are not safe from temptations and hardships once they become

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis is a book with thirty-one chapters written by Screwtape, a highly-ranked assistant to the Devil, to his nephew Wormwood, a junior demon. The chapters are presented as letters and provide instruction on how Wormwood can corrupt his Patient, an ordinary man, and lead him from a life of Christian faith towards the Devil. Throughout the letters, Screwtape serves as a first-person narrator, “character within the story narrates” (“Fiction terminology”). In The Screwtape Letters, Lewis uses satire, sarcasm, and analogies to highlight the difference between God, Satan, and man while emphasizing the importance of timing in manipulating the Patient towards Satan and away from God.

As you read C.S. Lewis’ novel, The Screwtape Letters, you realize that Screwtape seems to have very little understanding of God and doesn’t really understand what God actually stands for. Screwtape doesn’t understand why God actually cares for man the way he does. He states that “the truth is I slipped by mere carelessness into saying that the Enemy really loves the humans. That, of course, is an impossibility….” (Lewis). By Screwtape saying “….he is one being, they are distinct from Him. Their good cannot be His. All His talk about Love must be a disguise for something else”, this gives the reader insight into what Screwtape really thinks about God's relationship with man. The reader can see that Screwtape can’t fathom the relationship God

The Screwtape Letters is a thought-provoking book that details how easily humans are ensnared by the Enemy. The enticement of the world seems so appealing to human, however, C.S. Lewis makes it very clear that the enticement in the world is only temporary, and is ultimately a tactic of the Enemy. Often times, temptation creeps into our minds unexpectedly, but temptation’s effects are deadly. The Enemy will stop at nothing to tempt us, but God’s Word says that He will not tempt you beyond what you can bear, and when temptation comes, God will provide a way out (1 Corinthians 10:13).

When he later encounters goody Cloyse in the circle of devil worshippers, his doubts of her piety are cemented. The apparition of the Devil confirms that all the people in the circle around his alter are people who have gone against Christianity, and continued down the path of evil (672). Brown’s perspective of a good, pious person is shattered when he learns that the person he looks up to as a symbol of piety is actually a fraud.

“‘Faith! Faith!’ cried the husband. ‘Look up to Heaven, and resist the Wicked One!’” (Hawthorne 1297) These were the words expressed by Young Goodman Brown during the evil baptisms. Whether Goodman Brown was speaking to himself or his pleasant wife Faith, it is easily seen that there is a definite need of Faith and God to be saved from the “Wicked One”.

. . ."My Faith is gone!" cried he, after one stupefied moment. "There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil! for to thee is this world given."

The authors main argument in this message is how Satan distracts us from the word of God and how to counter attack Satan.

And so that’s why you always have to remain plugged in. You have to watch, and stand fast in the faith. Don’t you dare allow fear to consume your faith. You have to be willing to trust God, even when you are at the point where you have more bills than you got money and you’re trying to figure out what you’re going to do. The devil is always present when you are pressured . . . You cannot allow the enemy to push you to do anything that is offensive to God that you know will take you out of position with God.