[Linux4christians] Narnia [OT]

[Troy Wolfe]

> I do plan on seeing it however . . .
>
> I would not be so quick to say that Lewis would be so proud. He had a
> distrust of the medium of video (rightfully so) and criticized Walt
> Disney's films frequently.

Maybe so, however I stand by saying this book to movie translation was
more true to the book than most along this line.

>
> I also disagree that Lewis meant his Narnia series to be an allegory. If
> someone can show me otherwise from his writings, then I am willing to be
> corrected.

How can you not take that from the story itself? Aslan was the
"creator" of Narnia.  He sacrificed himself as a blameless sacrifice
to save the "tratoir"

>
> I quite frankly think Christian Book Distributors' marketing of Narnia
> borders on blasphemy. Aslan is NOT Jesus Christ. He is merely a
> character out of Lewis' imagination. I do not see why Christians get so
> excited over shadows when the full and complete revelation of Jesus
> Christ has come to us in the Word of God.
>

Because many in the world will get thinking over the idea.  No Aslan
is not Christ.
However the idea that there will be non'belivers seeing it and with
all the hype about it being a Christian story, the will hear the good
news.  These same people would not be likely to pick up a Bible
without some prompting.......

my .02
Troy