Allie Beth Stuckey
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32,441 appearances
90 recordings
10 series
first heard Apr 2022
last heard 3d ago
Allie Beth Stuckey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I don't think he's saying that we shouldn't be commanded or that the commands are wrong or that
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It's wrong to read the Bible or wrong to feel convicted by a pastor telling you these things at church, but sometimes it's more powerful to be made to feel those things through story.
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Or through allegory.
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Rather than through literalism, through commands.
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So Lewis's goal in writing the Chronicles of Narnia was to have people re-encounter the figure of Christ in a way that would make it real, that would make it new again.
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And it's not a literal comparison.
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You can't get out your Bible and read the Lion the Witch in the wardrobe and find exact cross-references between what the Bible says and this story.
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And you also can't nitpick it as a theological work.
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It's not an exact representation of the gospel.
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It's not an exact representation of Jesus.
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You have to read it for what it is, which is a fantasy novel with Christian themes underneath if you're willing to look.
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In the Chronicles of Narnia, Aslan is the equivalent of Christ, or he's a Christ figure.
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And the Emperor Beyond the Sea is the equivalent of God the Father.
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In the Lion, the Witch in the Wardrobe, the first published book of the series, Mr.
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Beaver identifies him as such.
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I tell you he is the king of the woods and the son of the great emperor beyond the sea.
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Don't you know who is the king of beasts?
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Aslan is a lion.
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The lion, the great lion, of course.
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Jesus is referred to also in scripture as the Lion of Judah.
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