Did C.S. Lewis Go to Heaven?

[jmm08]

sweetchuck:

I mean everything I say. Sometimes, though, they are sarcastic.

I guess I did correctly understand what you were saying. But I wasn’t sure. In general, I don’t think sarcasm helps to produce fruit of the Holy Spirit.

Galations 5:22-23 In contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.

But please don’t take offense at this comment. Thank you for offering to pray for me. Our RCIA class has a “Day of Prayer” at a St. Benedict monastery tomorrow. I intend to take part in the rite of acceptance. The RCIA team didn’t mention the questions we’d be asked until the rehearsal – and our names are already going to be in the church bulletin. On one hand, I wish the “Inquiry Period” was longer because I only started to think more Catholic last June – and didn’t fully decide until July. So it has been such a short period of time that my thinking changed so much – almost too fast. On the other hand, if I were to die I would want my funeral in the Catholic Church. So I welcome becoming a “Candidate for Full Communion”.

I hope what I wrote will serve as a caution note to you. Sometimes people are here because they are inquiring about the Catholic faith (that is why I first came here). And I suppose that one of the main reasons for this forum is to help such people that are really trying to find answers.

When CatholicCrusade says C. S. Lewis was a heretic and probably went to hell – is he being sarcastic and talking about the heresy of not being a proper Evangelical – according to the Trinity Foundation?

Or does CatholicCrusade say C. S. Lewis is a heretic because he wasn’t a Roman Catholic?

Or was there something heretical in C. S. Lewis’s writing?
If the last case, then I want to know what the heresy is so I might quit being a heretic – since I read a lot of C. S. Lewis books.

 

[catherinesiena]

**Did C.S. Lewis go to heaven…? Who would know? Silly. :ehh: **

 

[jeffreedy789]

catholiccrusade, apparently misunderstanding the gist of this thread, posted:

'C.S. Lewis could not have been saved unless he had converted and rejected his heresy and been confessed. He was not confessed, and unless he had a perfect act of contrition, then, no, he could not have been saved.

We cannot know for sure, but there is no reason to believe he was saved. We should have no more hope for him than we would for someone like Voltaire.’

i think we can have quite a bit more hope that lewis was saved than voltaire. one loved God, loved Christ, influenced millions of people to know Him and take Him seriously (including myself), and sought the presence and direction of God in all he did.

the other hated God, when he believed in Him at all, which seemed seldom.

fortunately, being catholic, we have a concept we call the concentric circles of faith. i have a feeling that lewis is much closer to the center of that circle than voltaire.

however - we might notice that the point of the thread is not really to ask if lewis is in heaven, which we, of course, can’t know. it’s to point out that we can’t know - and this guy on this crazy fundy website is going around deciding who’s in heaven and who isn’t.

so - falling into the rut of deciding who made it and who didn’t is exactly what this thread is dissuading us about. (sorry i ended my sentence in a preposition. it didn’t sound very good any other way).

 

[Scott_Lafrance]

CatholicCrusade:

C.S. Lewis could not have been saved unless he had converted and rejected his heresy and been confessed. He was not confessed, and unless he had a perfect act of contrition, then, no, he could not have been saved.

We cannot know for sure, but there is no reason to believe he was saved. We should have no more hope for him than we would for someone like Voltaire.

Please, not again with the rigid Extra Ecclesiam Nula Solas diatribe. That position has been covered over and over again, and that position is preposterous. No-one knows for sure who is in heaven and who is not, not even JPII could answer this question.

 

[jmm08]

jmm08:

Why I suppose a dispensation of grace towards those few individuals that God placed as off-the-straight-and-narrow-path course-correcting road signs to the way:

Deuteronomy 25:4 You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out grain.

Fr. Benedict J. Groeschel C.F.R.:

In whatever small and homely ways God may lead the meek, he often leads them to do a good in a place where no one else will or can do that particular good.
– page 127 Chapter 7 of “Heaven in Our Hands”