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Jesus Likes Me, This I Know

22 Friday Jan 2021

Posted by David L. Gill in Christianity, Personal, Theology

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C. S. Lewis, community, friendship, greatest commandment, homosexuality, Jesus, sexuality

Hey all…I know it’s been a while. Lots of COVID-related emotional down-ness (I’m a hyer-extrovert) and working on projects when I’m able (I’m scoring a silent film from 1925 at present), so I’m trying to keep busy. I’ll do a full personal update soon.

Someone recently asked me what I would tell my 16 year old self knowing what I know now. Here’s what I answered, edited for clarity (I hope):

Yes, I know this is a deep cut. If you get it, you get it.
  • That Jesus loves and LIKES him.
  • That at 38, he has more friends than he can imagine
  • That his sexuality is a precious gift and is a reason he has so many friends

Someone else asked me to talk more about the first point, so this is what I wrote:

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23 Tuesday Jul 2013

Posted by David L. Gill in Uncategorized

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C. S. Lewis, error, regeneration, sin

I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road. A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on. Evil can be undone, but it cannot ‘develop’ into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, ‘with backward mutters of dissevering power’–or else not. It is still ‘either-or’. If we insist on keeping Hell (or even Earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.

C. S. Lewis, in this quote fromĀ Virtue and Vice, makes a great point both in the indicative sense and in the imperative: “If we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.” They must be disposed of.

But if we accept Heaven, we will dispose of them. God doesn’t leave us as dry branches and then take us to heaven that way. Instead, He unites us to Christ and gives us life in Jesus. (That’s regeneration, among other things.)

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