“It ought to be noticed at this stage that the Christian doctrine, if accepted, involves a particular view of Death…On the one hand Death is the triumph of Satan, the punishment of the Fall, and the last enemy. Christ shed tears at the graves of Lazarus and sweated blood in Gethsemane: the Lord of Lives that was in Him detested this penal obscenity not less than we do, but more. On the other hand, only he who loses his life will save it. We are baptized into the death of Christ, and it is the remedy for the Fall. Death is, in fact, what some modern people call ‘ambivalent.’ It is Satan’s great weapon and also God’s great weapon: it is holy and unholy; our supreme disgrace and our only hope; the thing Christ came to conquer and the means by which He conquered.”
~C.S. Lewis, Miracles, HarperCollins Edition 2001, 202-203.
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