Written by Junius Johnson, a contemporary philosopher, theologian, professor, and author. This excerpt was written from a commentary on C.S. Lewis’ book “The Great Divorce.”
So this whole book [The Great Divorce] is concerned with motivating the inescapable and irreducible truth that we must all of us make a choice. The choice can be ignored, but not forever; it can be delayed, but not indefinitely. In the end, to choose not to choose would still be to make a choice, because of the nature of the choice. It is not a choice between God and Satan, or even God and the self: it is the choice between submission to God or not. If we fail to choose to submit to God, eventually we will find that we have chosen not to submit. This is the only true dualism in the universe, this is the only dichotomy that isn’t false. Absolutely everything is divided according to what is done about that choice. Lewis’ clearest and most famous example of it is the following passage: “There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says in the end, ‘Thy will be done.” The divorce is the impossibility of avoiding or relativizing this choice.
The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. [Romans 8:7]
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