Why did C.S. Lewis say that Hell is locked from the inside?
He explores this idea in his book The Great Divorce.
In it, souls of the damned are allowed to visit heaven on a bus ride, but they are not pleased with what they see — and they leave of their own accord.
The fact is, the damned cannot touch Heaven. They can't so much as disturb the dew drops on the grass. Nor can they even gaze upon the garden properly.
Why? Because they are blinded by their own sins:
– The philosopher would rather philosophize about God than meet him
– The painter would rather make beautiful art than gaze upon the source of all Beauty
– The clingy mother would rather fret over her son than give her full love to God
Lewis' point is that God cannot force man into salvation. Damnation is not God's rejection of man, but God tragically accepting man's rejection of him.
Hell itself is the ultimate monument to human freedom; for a human with true free will is even free to divorce himself with paradise.
What Lewis suggests is that you don't fully understand human nature until you understand that some humans really do not want paradise.
Conversely then, true freedom does not mean using your free will however you want. True freedom means surrendering your free will by forming your soul to the Good.
By sacrificing your free will in this manner, you gain glory, virtue, and happiness — for man was made to know and love virtue above all.
🇪🇸 Un Maghrébin fait tomber un homme et une femme de leurs motos à Alicante pour les leur voler en pleine lumière du jour.
Finalement, il est frappé et immobilisé par deux personnes. Bravo 👏🏻
Goodbye = God be with you
Holy smoke = election of a Pope
Breakfast = break the fast
Holiday = Holy Day
People have forgotten who they are, they don’t even know what the words they are saying actually mean.
In Brussels, EU headquarters, nearly 80% of residents are of foreign origin, and many women wear hijabs and burqas, similar to those common in Middle East and North Africa. With these scary data, European culture is doomed to disappear. Corrupt EU politicians have created an unprecedented disaster.
450.000 mensen op de wachtlijst voor een sociale woning en toch laten we jaarlijks 200.000 mensen binnen, op zoek naar een ander leven.
Die hebben uiteraard hun huis niet bij.....
Tijd voor een asiel en migratiestop, we zitten vol.