Isn’t that what he did to Job?
Makes perfectly good theological sense to me. “You’re all gonna go back, again and again and again until y’all get it right!”
Paradise is a roll-yer-own kind of enterprise.
It sounds like Lewis didn’t understand that reincarnation is not looked at as a desirable thing by those who believe in it, but as a cycle to be escaped. In a manner of speaking, reincarnation is “hell.” It’s what you have to keep doing until you work out your karma. It’s not about enjoying soup, it’s about cooking the soup over and over again until you get it right (or, in some philosophical outlooks, eating a distasteful soup over and over again until you learn to love it).
Are you aware of what the letters Ph.D. stand for?
Give me a cite I don’t have to pay for in order to read it. Every quote from Franklin that I have ever seen on the subject of the soul establishes nothing more than that he was not a materialist.
Job is a fairy tale.
It would seem to be based on a letter I can neither find but would again be interested to hear the reasoning on. Let me know if it turns up, or you decide to change the wiki.
http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/sunrise/48-98-9/re-elo.htm
here it is near the bottom
Actually, it’s about eating a poisonous soup over and over again until you lose your craving for it. But, as for Lewis, he was not talking about any oriental religion, but about brain-dead, Hollywood-and-greeting-card “Christianity”.
While certainly the number would depend on the answer to this question, it won’t be very sensitive to it, since at any reasonable point to draw the line, the population of humans or proto-humans was probably very small.
Of course, that’s why I mentioned it. Are you suggesting that all Ph.D.s are actually awarded for philosophy? Or that those that are establish the recipient as a qualified philosopher?
Nothing there that couldn’t be said by a plain-vanilla Christian.
The hell it is. Job is a comedy of justice.
What a strange metaphor. Were clowns known for soup-stealing back in Lewis’s day?