Mockingbird Ministries was kind enough to post one of my pieces, entitled “Adam Smith and the Nature of Heaven.” It delves into how the popular idea that “good people go to heaven” kind of misunderstands what heaven actually is. You can check it out here, and make sure you browse through more of the awesome content Mockingbird has to offer. Thanks!
Intersections of scripture and life
Category: Culture
“One of the things that held me back from Supernaturalism was a deep repugnance to the view of Nature which, as I thought, Supernaturalism entailed. I passionately desired that Nature should exist ‘on her own’… the thought that she had been manufactured or ‘put there’, and put there with a purpose, was suffocating…
To find that all the woods, and small streams in the middle of the woods, and odd corners of mountain valleys, and the wind and the grass were only a sort of scenery, only backcloths for some kind of play, and that play perhaps one with a moral – what flatness, what an anti-climax, what an unendurable bore!”
– C.S. Lewis, Miracles
There’s an early episode of House, MD in which the good doctor describes a personal near-death experience. Although he generally makes something of a hobby out of ridiculing religious belief, in this case House doesn’t immediately dismiss a colleague’s suggestion that he had made contact with eternity. There’s no way to know, he admits. Nonetheless, he chooses (his word) to believe that what he experienced was nothing more than the last chemical reactions of a brain closing shop, because “I find it more comforting to believe that this [life] isn’t simply a test.”
Common kingfisher (photo credit: Joefrei)
By the thirteenth of C.S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letters, the human “patient,” tempted by the junior demon Wormwood, has adopted a new set of friends. They’re socialists in a “purely fashionable” manner, their socialism stemming not from a serious critique of capitalism but rather from contempt for what most people believe, simply because most people believe it. They read books primarily to make “clever remarks” about them. They are fun, witty, attractive, and thoroughly poisonous to sincere Christian faith.
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