There were all sorts of Pagan characters like Pan, a centaur and a minutaur and the "Lion" is symbolic in common in many belief systems...and I won't even go into the "Witch" character. Is this movie telling a Christian story?
2006-09-27 00:33:27 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Those "Christian themes" that people are so ga-ga over? They were popular, mythologically speaking, thousands of years BEFORE Christianity.
They just think they invented the wheel. Every new religion thinks they re-invented the wheel.
2006-09-27 06:41:32 · answer #1 · answered by AmyB 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The author was certainly influenced by spiritualism but may have also incorporated other, more ancient, beliefs in addition. The lion is a very ancient symbol. The sun, of course, is the most ancient symbol of belief systems. The story depicts the age-old story of man's triumph over evil-doing. These are my beliefs and you are free to accept or decline them.
2006-09-27 01:33:14 · answer #2 · answered by Nosy 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I remember reading the books when I was young and thinking they were marvelous fantasy. Then I heard they were Christian parables and was kind of disappointed. Once you know that you can see it clearly.
Tolkien is different - he wanted to create a mythology for England. It really didn't take off in that way but the books are wildly successful anyway. There are stories about Lewis and Tolkien - the one I heard is they were friends but Tolkien disagreed about using religion in the books like Lewis did.
2006-09-27 05:00:34 · answer #3 · answered by Sage Bluestorm 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
one can see symbols in about anything if they want to. several times people can look at the same thing from more than one perspective. you and I could read the same book, see the same movie etc. and come to entirely different conclusions as to what the main point of the story or movie was. here is another example of free will along with Culture and Society belief systems having influences in our lives.
2006-09-27 01:03:26 · answer #4 · answered by Marvin R 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not entierly. The orriginal series of books shows a deep occult story. The recient movie "hides" the occult side a bit. The "sons of adam and daughters of eve" is more of a referance from the Narnia perspective on how the humans believe (for those that are christian) we came about.
2006-09-27 00:36:15 · answer #5 · answered by PaganAndProud 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
that was the book, in a way it is. C.S. Lewis( the writer of), decided to write this book, as an easy way to make children understand the bible and christianity in general. also Lewis was good friends with Tolkien, who wrote Lord of the Rings, which in a way has got the same fundaments.
i love the books, but i see it more of an ode to pagan religion, which i am quite happy about.
2006-09-27 01:00:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I saw the movie before reading the books. But I like both the movie and the books.
2016-03-27 13:17:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This question is best answered by the author of said story, C.S. Lewis, who is unfortunately dead but makes his answers pretty clear in his nonfiction works and autobiography. He didn't see the pagan symbols as "unchristian"; he just liked fantasy elements, basically, and thought they were good symbols to use as people were used to them and they had older meanings as well.
2006-09-27 00:39:52 · answer #8 · answered by angk 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
yeah it's a christian kid movie. By the way they already made that movie as well as the 4th, 5th, and 6th ones a long time ago. i know cos i watched them all back in 1996.
2006-09-27 00:35:29 · answer #9 · answered by baddrose268 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Indeed. The most prominent one is where Aslan is humiliated, having his mane shorn, mocked, and bound to a sacrificial altar. He gives up his life in exchange for that of Edmund's life.
Edmund was a traitor, both to his siblings, and to Aslan. He cared nothing for Aslan's desire to have the land live in peace, or its return to it's Edenic state... all he cared about was filling his stomach, and becoming king. He was a typical sinner... fill his needs, and his wants, and he is content with that.
Even so, the witch knew he was a traitor, and like Satan standing accusingly at Joshua before God, she stood before Aslan and accused Edmund of betraying him, and mentioned that the punishment for being a traitor is death.
When we sin, it is akin to us betraying God. He gives us all we could ever want, and all we are concerned about is our stomach, and power, without so much as a sincere thank you... and the punishment for sin is death.
Even so, Aslan, who had far more knowledge of the 'deep magic' than the Witch, knew that if an innocent willingly gave up his life for the guilty, they would not die. Just like Jesus, who knew that a sinless life would be accepted in exchange for the lives of sinners... if Satan indeed had known so much, he would not have placed it into the minds of the Pharisees to kill Him, but rather, protect Him from death at all costs.
Aslan walked to his death silent, and without a word, just as Jesus had. Aslan was mocked, just as Jesus. Aslan was humiliated and stripped of his covering : his mane; just as Jesus was stripped of his clothing. Aslan was pierced by a knife; Jesus was pierced both by nails and by a spear. Aslan was killed on an altar, just as the Paschal lamb is. An earthquake occured, and the altar was split, just like when an earthquake occured when an angel rolled away the stone door to Jesus' tomb. Jesus was called "The Lion of Judah", Aslan was a lion.
Pan was not in the movie or the book "TLTW&TW", but rather, later on in the series, in the book "Prince Caspian". Mr. Tumnus was a fawn... a satyr... of the same 'species' as Pan, but not him in particular. The way I see it, the usage of various characters from mythology sets the story in a way that makes humans more akin to God-chosen prophets or possibly angels, the mythological characters representative of the many nations of people, and so-called 'demi-gods' like Pan equate to their rulers.
Had the Wardrobe have been populated by people, no one would have thought anything special about the four children. Yet, because their appearance was greater than those of everyone else (who were mere animals, or half-animals half-humans), everyone could tell that they were special, and were the ones spoken about in the prophecy. I mean, imagine if the Bible were so written that the Four Horsemen were meant to be taken as literal... would *you* expect them to be businessmen, bankers, shopping clerks, and doctors? No, you'd expect horrible men on horseback wielding various weaponry. Such as it was with the prophecy in TLTW&TW... their prophecy was apparently written in such a manner that beings greater than themselves would appear... if that were so, then the children couldn't be children at all, but angels or aliens or somesuch, if the population was made up of entirely humans.
In the end, all four children... the good ones, and the redeemed one... were all given a place of rulership equal to that of Aslan's. Just as Jesus, in the end, will also make us kings/queens and priests/esses unto God as well.
2006-09-27 01:17:40 · answer #10 · answered by seraphim_pwns_u 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋