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Originally Posted by aussiemama
I doubt CS Lewis' salvation because I saw a published book of letters between him and Tolkien where he basically said he wasn't saved and that his fiction books such as "the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" were NOT Christian fiction, they were just fantasy.
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I think my wife has the same book. I might read that part again. She read it to me quite confused, but from my understanding, that section was written BEFORE he believed the gospel, and he was sharing his love for fiction with Tolkien, who despite being Roman Catholic, was trying to get him to understand the atonement. I know he wrote to Tolkien explaining his love for mythology such Odin, who died upon the tree for Yggdrasil (Norse mythology), and Tolkien was trying to get him to understand that the Bible was the same, except it was fact, not mythology.
Maybe I'm mistaken. Anyway, I didn't name anyone. I still think it's wrong to judge a dead man as unsaved because of bad doctrine. For example, Martin Luther believed in baptismal regeneration. Was he saved or lost?
I'll take the book to work and try and find the quote
