Posted on 12/28/2004 11:56:55 AM PST by Rodney King
Tolkien died in 1973 while CS Lewis died in 1963, so I am not sure what you are thinking of.
I did find this:
http://home.apu.edu/~CTRF/articles/2001_articles/wiebe.html
For example, Sir Alister Hardy reported (1975: 220) that C. S. Lewis appeared twice after his death to J. B. Phillips, well known translator of the New Testament.
Over the years, I have read lots of stories of people who had experiences of seeing people in dreams or even talking to them to find out that they had died around the same time...This even happened to the son of a friend of mine when his mother died.
Have a care....
A couple of months later he managed to send us an unmistakable message. No one in the family has been afraid of death since that time.
Can you tell us about the unmistakable message?
fyi
Why, yes, I do: Clive Staples Lewis, by William Griffin: Harper & Row, First Edition, 1986. page 448.
Turns out that by trying to recall it from reading it 17 years ago I had everything wrong except the main point: Lewis was the deceased, not Tolkien, and the one he visited was J.B. Phillips. Apparently it's time to reread it!
"...Chang...heard on the 1:00 p.m. BBC news that Lewis had died. In Swange, Dorset, Phillips was watching television when he saw Lewis sitting in a chair a few feet away, ruddy and grinning and glowing with health. He had seen Lewis only once before; he knew what he was seeing now. He didn't look up to the ceiling, as the bishop of Woolwich thought people did, to see if Lewis had come down through a hole. 'It's not as hard as you think, you know,' said Lewis; Phillips knew what he meant."
Incidentally, though this has nothing to do with your personal situation, but rather is simply worth noting in passing: Lewis died on 11/22/63, the day JFK was assassinated. Thus, the death of Christianity's most popular author was completely overshadowed by the most sensational single death of the 20th Century. I think I see Satan's hand there....
They did a show about Hell on the History channel last night with that same man.It didn't go into the part of him being a mean bastard before his out of body experience,but did talk about what happened to him..
Technicalities, technicalities.
;O)
My understanding was that in the Greek Language, "Once" may actually be interpreted as an ordinal.
equivalent to our "first". Using that as first instead of once, "after that" makes for a different sense then.
It may be that it is an assertion that God's judgement is guaranteed AFTER death... and not before.
Order of the appointments, death then judgement, not quantities of either.
Furthermore it may be saying that we all have an appointment with death prior to judgement. Then we have a problem with the NON death of Enoch... who did not die perse, but God just 'took him'.
Great points! I recall a pastor telling me way back in 1955 that the points that were critical were made abundantly clear in the scripture, that Jesus is the Son of God and belief and faith in Him is the only way to salvation. Other points were sort of left up to us to discuss and argue! I have always taken this particular verse to mean that there is no reincarnation, you die once and that's it. I guess it's in there among hundreds of other things that make for lively discussions, especially among scholars of theology, but really have no bearing on our salvation. I would find it quite problematical if my life after this life could be messed with because the someone translated a word in a way it was not intended to be used.
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