Lewis shows the impact of choices in The Great Divorce: in the afterlife, ghosts who choose Self as God progressively de-create themselves, from the inside out. The ghosts are shells -- transparent insubstantial Un-man -- doomed to the hell they create for themselves.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
The Significance of Daily Choices
“[E]very time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature: either into a creature that is in harmony with God, and with other creatures, and with itself, or else into one that is in a state of war and hatred with God, and with its fellow-creatures, and with itself. To be the one kind of creature is heaven: that is, it is joy and peace and knowledge and power. To be the other means madness, horror, idiocy, rage, impotence, and eternal loneliness. Each of us at each moment is progressing to the one state or the other.” (CS Lewis, MC 3.4)
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This is so great! People today think that you can just make a choice and have it turn into you. But, in reality everything we do is either leading us towards God or away from Him. There is no in-between.
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