“Algunos piensan que después de esta vida, o tal vez después de varias vidas, las almas humanas serán «absorbidas» por Dios. Pero cuando tratan de explicar lo que quieren decir, parecen estar pensando en ser absorbidos por Dios como una cosa material es absorbida por otra. Dicen que es como una gota de agua que se desliza al mar. Pero, por supuesto, ese es el final de la gota. Si eso es lo que sucede con nosotros, ser absorbidos es lo mismo que dejar de existir. Son sólo los cristianos los que tienen una idea de cómo las almas humanas pueden ser incorporadas en la vida de Dios y sin embargo seguir siendo las mismas…, de hecho, siendo mucho más ellas mismas de lo que eran antes.”
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Clive Staples Lewis was born in Ireland, in Belfast on 29 November 1898. His mother was a devout Christian and made efforts to influence his beliefs. When she died in his early youth her influence waned and Lewis was subject to the musings and mutterings of his friends who were decidedly agnostic and atheistic. It would not be until later, in a moment of clear rationality that he first came to a belief in God and later became a Christian.
C. S. Lewis volunteered for the army in 1917 and was wounded in the trenches in World War I. After the war, he attended university at Oxford. Soon, he found himself on the faculty of Magdalen College where he taught Mediaeval and Renaissance English.
Throughout his academic career he wrote clearly on the topic of religion. His most famous works include the Screwtape Letters and the Chronicles of Narnia. The atmosphere at Oxford and Cambridge tended to skepticism. Lewis used this skepticism as a foil. He intelligently saw Christianity as a necessary fact that could be seen clearly in science.
"Surprised by Joy" is Lewis's autobiography chronicling his reluctant conversion from atheism to Christianity in 1931.