can't embed here....just watched my DVD of the whole thing again and just loved it, love the magic of it all...:-). If you haven't seen it....you might give it a look see...
Date: August 24, 2018 at 13:45:35 From: pamela, [DNS_Address] Subject: Re: The Chronicles of Narnia:Prince Caspian
boycotting Disney. But I read the book years ago as a young teen. I did watch the one Eve posted last night. It was quite true to the book as I recall. Love the wardrobe turning into a forest/Narnia land. That to me was quite magical just reading it from the book. I kind of phased out the Aslan part when I was reading it back then. I can see that magic dark and good was used in this telling. Can't recall if magic was mentioned in the book though. Aslan makes reference to old magic that the witch/queen did not apparently know about. The substitute willing sacrifice to redeem the life of another. I always had trouble with the idea of blood sacrifice/magic. THe part which says, the lamb slain from the foundations of the world. Yet in Chronicles of Narnia we have the lion slain. But then CS Lewis was referring to the lion tribe of Judah I suppose.
We have come to know, that those of 'old time' were heavily into bloody sacrifices of people and animals. And in the gospels, Jesus constantly mentions, 'you have heard it said by them of old time" and then makes his answer more clear as to who/what kind of GOd his and our heavenly Father truly is as opposed to what had been handed down by them of old time, including scribes and Pharisees. They being still in bloody sacrifices of one sort or another, I think shows it plainly, it was not the way of the Real God/Father of us all. But since Jesus knew about all of this, willingly, laid down his life for his friends and took it up again.
One of the first books I read of CS Lewis was the Screwtape Letters around 14 years old.
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Date: August 22, 2018 at 19:09:36 From: Eve, [DNS_Address] Subject: Re: The Chronicles of Narnia:Prince Caspian
I purchased the book, but I never got all the way through it as I think it was I never read it in my childhood so I was not all that engaged in the story as an adult. I only heard about the story maybe 8-9 years ago.
I did watch this 1988 PBS version of the story on youtube not long ago.....thought to share it for anyone interested. It's 6 episodes long. I have never seen the version of the movie at your link though I was aware that it was out.