Author	Thread: On Marriage a Demons Perspective
Admin	On Marriage a Demons Perspective Posted : 9 Jan, 2011 03:45 PM Screwtape Letters, C.S.Lewis � 'Context' ~ (One demon talking to another demon) (edited) "In other words the humans are to be encouraged to regard as the basis for marriage a highly colored and distorted version of something God really promises as its result. Humans can be deterred from seeking marriage because they do not find themselves 'in love' and thanks to us demons, the idea of marrying with any other motive seems to them low and cynical. Yes, they think that. They regard the intention of loyalty to a partnership for mutual help, for the preservation of chastity, and for the transmission of life, as something lower than a storm of emotion. Don't neglect to make your person think the marriage-service very offensive." Any Comments Guys? (it is posted in the girls section for gender comparative answers) Post Reply
DontHitThatMark View Profile History	On Marriage a Demons Perspective Posted : 10 Jan, 2011 07:59 AM Scary, and probably extremely true. The emotion "called" love and marriage has been so closely linked that as soon as there is any discord people just seem to give up and run away. In reality, the thing they think is "love" is so very far away from REAL love. I don't think most people even realize what it is anymore. "Love" seems to be based on nothing more than a emotion, and when the emotion is gone, so is the "love". > American Standard Version 4Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil; 6rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth; 7beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 8LOVE NEVER FAILETH: :peace::peace: Post Reply
DontHitThatMark View Profile History	On Marriage a Demons Perspective Posted : 10 Jan, 2011 08:00 AM 1 Corinthians 13:dunce: Post Reply
View Profile History	On Marriage a Demons Perspective Posted : 10 Jan, 2011 10:17 PM I liked this, because getting married only for love was way to scary for me. I know feelings don't last and they come and go and the people with them. But this, this I can do! Post Reply
DontHitThatMark View Profile History	On Marriage a Demons Perspective Posted : 11 Jan, 2011 08:45 AM Yeah...unfortunately, really/truly/biblically loving the person we get married to is the easy part, lol. We're supposed to treat everyone in the world like that:prayingm:. Which might be why God invented marriage, so we can have some "easier" practice. If you can find a way to truly love the person you're attracted/committed to, maybe it will be an example in your mind/heart and show you how to love everyone else that you're not so close to? We shouldn't have to get married to do that, but it might make it easier for a lot of people. You know...when you literally experience it and put it into practice, it's just like everything else. You get better at it and it grows. I don't think REAL love comes naturally to us. We love our parents because they nurture and raise us, we love our siblings and friends because they're "like" us and they're "usually" nice to us...but loving people that hate you and abuse you? That ain't easy... :peace::peace: Post Reply
View Profile History	On Marriage a Demons Perspective Posted : 11 Jan, 2011 11:58 AM Most people don't realize love is a choice. We choose to love or we choose to not love. When someone says they fell out of love the truth according to the bible is that they were never in love to begin with. God says love is forever. Marriage is a committment and C. S. Lewis wrote by the Spirit I believe which is nothing short of genius to make modern man think about his choices. Lewis wrote with insight to the way man thinks which is why God knew we eventually would understand we needed a Savior. With our own thinking we are doomed to fail and we really don't need an evil influence. We are our own doomed influence. Having said this I also know all things are possible with God so with God any marriage can survive man's influence...in the worlds' thinking marriage is foolishness, in God's eyes marriage is His way of healing this land and helping us understand something we probably never even think about ourselves. How much our God wants to be inside of us. Post Reply
View Profile History	On Marriage a Demons Perspective Posted : 13 Jan, 2011 09:20 PM I love C.S. Lewis, have read a lot of his work and regard him MOST highly. His fanciful imagination here, however, failed. Demons don't need our help to screw up our lives when plain old human carnality does such a good job. And I don't believe they do. Men and women are perfectly capable of imagining anything they want about marriage and perverting it at their own whim. I'm sick of hearing how much "demons" are to blame for our problems when nasty old human nature is often more devilish then they are. C.S. was a confirmed bachelor at the time he wrote "The Screwtape Letters" in 1940 and I don't know that he quite got his hands around this hideous human paradox until later in life, until he met Joy Gresham in 1952 and began to reflect a bit more. Just my O. Post Reply