![]() They have thought of their world as the “real” one, the one with substance, while thinking of heaven as the less substantial spirit world. ![]() ![]() All this is in contrast to the people coming from earth who are transparent and ghostly. In The Great Divorce, Lewis sees everything in heaven (grass, rocks, trees, water, etc.) as “much solider than things in our country.” It’s all heavy and hard, like diamonds-the character can’t pluck a flower or pick up a leaf. Where he was going with this – or was it purely imagination? Answer from Randy Alcorn: It is a bit odd, but I love Lewis and I am trying to keep an open mind. I am reading The Great Divorce and am wondering if there is any significance to the "hard grass/undrinkable water" in his Heaven scene where the spirits are discussing their past. ![]()
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