Allegories
This is the type of toy that Lewis compares humans to.
Lewis references this story in which a girl has to marry a monster.
What is Beauty and the Beast?
He does everything, rather than us.
Who is God?
Who the whole universe was made for (specifically).
Who is Christ?
Individual humans are to the whole of humanity as these are to the body.
What are organs?
All humanity is interconnected and grows like this.
What is a tree?
This happened to the man who wore a beautiful mask.
What is his face grew to fit it and he became beautiful?
God is easy to please but hard to .
What is satisfy?
The percent of our natural self that Christ demands.
What is 100%?
The type of person who forgets that others belong to the same organism as them.
What is an Individualist?
Saying you’ve been helped by humans but not by God is like the woman who says she doesn't need bread because she has this.
What is toast?
Why children playing pretend is a good thing.
What is it prepares them to be grown-ups?
What the Son of God becoming man enabled men to do.
What is becoming Sons of God?
This is the great "wild card" that occurred in evolution.
What is the development of intelligence over strength?
This is the difference between reading what Christ said and reading what Plato or Marx said.
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird, but it would be a jolly sight harder for it to do this.
What is learning to fly while remaining an egg?
We are “dressing up like Christ” when we say this prayer.
What is the Our Father?
If you ask God to help you with a minuscule issue, he will do this.
What is "give you the full treatment?"
A world of automata would be devoid of this.
What is love?
This type of person forgets that humans are distinct.
What is a Totalitarian?
Lewis uses this metaphor to describe the way Christ's incarnation impacts all of humanity.
What is dropping into a glass of water one drop of something which gives a new taste or new color to the whole lot?
The animal that becomes “near-human” because we treat it as such.
What is a dog?
The reason the process of being turned from a creature into a Son of God is so difficult.
What is the fall of Adam and Eve and humanity's turning away from God?
God demands this of us: "Be ye ."
What is perfect?
A wartime poster said Careless Talk costs Lives. When discussing the case of bad Christians, Lewis says this is equally true.
What is that Careless Lives cost Talk?