swamidass
August 21, 2018, 9:20pm
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AJRoberts:
But a pagan can observe enough to know it’s not all by accident. A Creator of great power, insight, cleverness, and benevolence has provided an abundant and lavish place of beauty and life that any creature based account fails to explain.
Yes and no…its complex, right? This reference to the pagan reminds me of CS Lewis’ greatest novel, Till We Have Faces . Read the plot if you can. The gods are good to a pagan queen in revealing the true order of her world. Nature declares, but the gods still reveal.
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold is a 1956 novel by C. S. Lewis. It is a retelling of Cupid and Psyche, based on its telling in a chapter of The Golden Ass of Apuleius. This story had haunted Lewis all his life, because he realized that some of the main characters' actions were illogical. As a consequence, his retelling of the story is characterized by a highly developed character, the narrator, with the reader being drawn into her reasoning and her emotions. This was his last novel, and h
https://www.amazon.com/Till-We-Have-Faces-Retold/dp/0062565419