Saturday, December 13, 2008

The woman in Letter 22

I have been thinking a lot lately about this woman in Chapter 22, and first off I would love to be a woman described as such, and second I want to be her best friend. She seems to fit amazingly well with my views about what it says in Genesis that it was not right for man to be alone, and so God made an Ezer Kenegdo or life savor, comforter, and helper. The demons seem scared of her, which says that maybe Lewis thought a woman could help encourage a man to stay on the strait and narrow path that leads to God.
Chapter 22 in Screwtape goes very in depth into the type of woman that Wormwood’s patient fell in love with. She is described as being the kind of girl that just reeks of Christianity, and that it rubs off on everyone she comes in contact with and that and that would probably even more so be true of her husband/boyfriend. Screwtape all but said that “Filthy insipid little prude-and yet ready to fall into this booby’s arms like any other breeding animal. Why doesn’t the Enemy blast her for it, if He’s so moonstruck by virginity-instead of looking on there, grinning?” (Lewis)
This doesn’t keep completely with what Paul says in 1 Corinthians chapter 7. The letter says that a woman would distract a man from God, but this letter seems to make a woman sound like she is possible to help him to focus on God. I think that this is a high task to live up to, but it would probably be an amazing thing to try to strive for, but also makes me feel

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