Therefore God lacks either goodness, or power, or both.” While he is treating this theme in the book, at times it seemed that Lewis is interacting with everyone from Aristotle to Augustine and from mystics to Marxists. The basic issue Lewis deals with in The Problem of Pain is: “If God were good, He would make His creatures perfectly happy, and if He were almighty He would be able to do what He wished. For example, he writes, “I think, under correction, that the prophet used an eastern hyperbole when he spoke of the lion and the lamb lying down together.” On the other hand, I am sympathetic with the figurative way he interprets certain biblical texts. He firmly believes in God as the Creator of the universe and in man as fallen, but the way he portrays them is at times poetic and symbolic, rather than literal, as conservative evangelicals have traditionally interpreted Genesis 1-3. At times I found myself struggling to follow Lewis’ line of thought in this rather philosophical book. The Problem of Pain, however, is different. That fascinating series can be enjoyed both from the standpoint of its intriguing stories and its hidden theological truths. What a great mind! What a great imagination! I loved reading The Chronicles of Narnia to my children, twice actually, once to my older ones, then again to my younger ones.
Lewis is always an adventure of one kind or another.
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