How come in Charles Dickens 'A Christmas Carol" it talks about the four spirits, Marley, The Ghost Of Christmas Past, The Ghost of Christmas Present, and The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, are the only spirits who need to convince Scrroge, but yet, God didn't do it himself?
-Agnostic
2006-12-18 16:14:45 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I know it's fictional. I just thought that it was a bit ironic.
2006-12-18 16:17:41 · update #1
Um...Aquila? There was four spirits...
2006-12-18 16:19:17 · update #2
If he did send them...then why didn't they say "I was sent here?"
2006-12-18 16:20:03 · update #3
True...because it is a fictional book......just like the bible!
2006-12-18 16:18:02 · answer #1 · answered by Miss Suki 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you! Basically, the spirits might, after all the bible thumping, still just be Scrooge's imagination, just like the Bible's prophets or God himself.
I can't believe nobody gets that besides being better fiction and moral teaching than about 90% of The Bible, it's quite possible that there's nothing supernatural involved AT ALL!!!
And to the people who say Dickens was decrying the conditions of Victorian England, that's just the way it works - you live then, you write best about that age. The "hero" wasn't the cute Tiny Tim, it was Scrooge and he was redeemed as much as anything by his own change of heart and his own actions (what's that? no martyrdom? no salvation?! Blasphemy!). And yeah, for all we know he goes back to being the jerk he always was two days later but so what, that's life, eternal salvation is just a myth.
2006-12-18 17:18:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because A Christmas Carol is a FICTIONAL story written by a MAN Charles Dickens. We only require one spirit in Gods story. In the Bible a book of truth written by God we only need to be filled with the Holy Spirt.
Man can't do anything as well as God. Of course it took more.
-Christian
2006-12-18 16:18:50 · answer #3 · answered by micheletmoore 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because the Christmas Carol is just a story. It's not real. It's just the way that Charles Dickens wanted the story to be.
2006-12-18 16:17:43 · answer #4 · answered by Sam-I-Am 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all this book is a work of fiction and is agreed to be pretty much a political commentary of the times. If you believe the bible God sends angles to do a lot of the grunt work so you you would have had plenty of spirits for Dickens to write into the story and not be outside his spiritual premise.
2006-12-18 16:24:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Charles Dickens is a story teller. God is not! The Bible tells the truth. All the ghosts in that story are not real.
2006-12-18 16:17:29 · answer #6 · answered by Dakota Lynn Takes Gun 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It was just a Christmas Tale. Fictional
2006-12-18 16:18:16 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe because Dickens wasn't inspired by Bible?!
Please, that book is a fiction
2006-12-18 16:17:29 · answer #8 · answered by Regina 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sweety, Mr Dickens wrote a fictional story. It was a STORY. NOT THE BIBLE for heaven's sake!
2006-12-18 16:21:04 · answer #9 · answered by Mrs Lizzard 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes he did…
Revelation 5:6
… He had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.
See he sent seven.
2006-12-18 16:18:17 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Dude. Scrooge was so messed up he sent the ghosts in his place to do the dirty work.
2006-12-18 16:16:48 · answer #11 · answered by Jesus Christ 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋