Talk:The Last Battle/@comment-117.200.27.197-20110209070607/@comment-216.227.120.190-20110316023624

The point about Susan is free will - she did get caught up in the things of this world too much - not that things like clothes and boys are intrinsically bad - that is not true at all. But she made these things into idols, preferring them to Aslan, Christ, Whom she once knew. It's important that her fate is not known - could she have realized something later in her life? Of course. But I think the point is really important here, because Christianity - being reality - has as its basis complete human freedom, including the freedom not to believe and live for Christ / Aslan. As to what it means "to live for Christ" this is one of the things the Church - at least the Orthodox Church - slowly and gently teaches us. Although it is seemingly compasasionate to wish for Susan to get in to Aslan's country as well, the truth is that if she has turned away from it, she wouldn't be able to enter in. Not because of Aslan keeping her out, but because she in her willfulness and lack of belief, keeps herself locked out. Aslan respects her freedom to do this, and as C.S. Lewis wrote in the book "The Great Divorce", there are only two kinds of people: Those who say to God, "Thy will be done", and those to whom God says "thy will be done."

The point is made so that hopefully we can be the first kind of people, and not the second.