Angels michael heiser7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() I simply didn’t have room in my cosmology for intelligent, invisible, spiritual beings other than God. That passage speaks of the gospel events as “things the angels desire to look into” (KJV).Īll along, I had been reading about angels and chalking it up to science fiction. With this clear reference to 1 Peter 1:12, it finally dawned on me that these were not aliens. But of this we know less than you it is a thing we desire to look into. We think that Maleldil would not give it up utterly to the Bent One, and there are stories among us that He has taken strange counsel and dared terrible things, wrestling with the Bent One in Thulcandra. Ransom meets the Oyarsa, who explains to him that the Silent Planet Thulcandra is actually Earth, and that it became silent when its Oyarsa became “bent.” There are rumors, however, that “Maleldil” (Jesus) has pulled off an amazing rescue: Then Lewis dropped a clear biblical allusion, and my eyes were opened. And since aliens had always been implausible to me anyway, I had no trouble suspending my disbelief. In the book, Edwin Ransom is taken to Malacandra (Mars), where he encounters intelligent beings called eldila, the chief of whom is the Oyarsa.īecause the story dealt with rocket travel through outer space to an actual planet, I had a ready category for these beings: aliens. ![]() ![]() Lewis’s Out of the Silent Planet for the first time. I’ll never forget when I realized I didn’t believe in angels. ![]()
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