“Broaden your horizon.” “Think outside the box.” These two statements represent the cultural value to have an imagination and the value for us to stretch it. C. S. Lewis makes the case: our imaginations are too small. He says events like miracles, speaking in tongues, and visions are real phenomena. However, just because they seem outside the scope of our understanding that does not mean they are impossible. In Miracles, he focuses on the presence of miracles in the world and how they are real.
As Christians, we pride ourselves on having come out of the darkness. However, in choosing close-mindedness in relation to miracles, we choose to keep our eyes closed to the wonder of who God is. Many churches rarely mention miracles because they don’t …show more content…
Take the case of a man walking a tightrope. There are some actions that he can never do. For example, he cannot walk the tightrope while he is parallel to the ground or even upside down. A fly, on the other hand, can do all those feats as well as fly off the rope entirely. Let’s say the man lives in a world of fog in which he cannot see more than a foot in front of him. He only sees and understands the piece of rope beneath him. The man, no matter how much he tries, cannot truly understand the logistics or sensations associated with the actions of the fly. The man may try to imagine as much as he likes, but he will never truly understand. This metaphor, as found in the show Stranger Things demonstrates how there is a part of the universe that exists beyond the limits of our …show more content…
We need to have an awareness of the world as greater than our viewpoint. Lewis makes the analogy: we are like people in three-dimensional paintings. Since we are inside the painting and we have no understanding of what three-dimensions looks like. In transposition, Lewis offers the skepticism of a person living in a two-dimensional painting: “But isn’t it very suspicious that all the shapes which you offer me as images or reflections of the solid ones turn out on inspection to be simply the old two-dimensional shapes of my own world as I have always known it?” (101). This doubt is the reason why the idea of transposition is so important.
In “Transposition”, Lewis says “we are somehow aware that we approach from above, or from inside, at least some of those transpositions which embody the Christian life’ (105). We already have some knowledge a higher system exists. This is evident in how atheists believe in ghosts. Nature always reveals itself and so at the end of the day we have all seen supernatural phenomena. However, we draw our own conclusions, thus which is true is reasoned to be
As Christians, we pride ourselves on having come out of the darkness. However, in choosing close-mindedness in relation to miracles, we choose to keep our eyes closed to the wonder of who God is. Many churches rarely mention miracles because they don’t …show more content…
Take the case of a man walking a tightrope. There are some actions that he can never do. For example, he cannot walk the tightrope while he is parallel to the ground or even upside down. A fly, on the other hand, can do all those feats as well as fly off the rope entirely. Let’s say the man lives in a world of fog in which he cannot see more than a foot in front of him. He only sees and understands the piece of rope beneath him. The man, no matter how much he tries, cannot truly understand the logistics or sensations associated with the actions of the fly. The man may try to imagine as much as he likes, but he will never truly understand. This metaphor, as found in the show Stranger Things demonstrates how there is a part of the universe that exists beyond the limits of our …show more content…
We need to have an awareness of the world as greater than our viewpoint. Lewis makes the analogy: we are like people in three-dimensional paintings. Since we are inside the painting and we have no understanding of what three-dimensions looks like. In transposition, Lewis offers the skepticism of a person living in a two-dimensional painting: “But isn’t it very suspicious that all the shapes which you offer me as images or reflections of the solid ones turn out on inspection to be simply the old two-dimensional shapes of my own world as I have always known it?” (101). This doubt is the reason why the idea of transposition is so important.
In “Transposition”, Lewis says “we are somehow aware that we approach from above, or from inside, at least some of those transpositions which embody the Christian life’ (105). We already have some knowledge a higher system exists. This is evident in how atheists believe in ghosts. Nature always reveals itself and so at the end of the day we have all seen supernatural phenomena. However, we draw our own conclusions, thus which is true is reasoned to be