~ C. S. Lewis, Sadhu Sundar Singh, and Visions ~ | One wouldnt think that Oxford Dons and other intellectuals would be very much impressed by claims of Hindu mystics who see into the heavenly realm, talk with angels, long dead saints, and even the Lord Jesus himself. But, such individuals can leave their mark on society for their life of piety and asceticism in preaching the Gospel. And in the case of Sadhu his influence is identified by some in important instances in C. S. Lewis books (see link below) | I have a copy of the book The Visions of Sadhu Sundar Singh and have read it with more than just a mild interest. Who wouldnt, after all, want to have some knowledge of the spiritual realm based on the presumption that the Lord has graced some in the Body with such experiences as would benefit His people. | But, however intriguing the prospect one must keep one finger in the Bible when reading such accounts. In the end, no grace given to any will contradict that grace that has already been given in the Scriptures. So for your enlightened inspection I submit the following excerpt from the venerable Singhs book. ********** A WICKED MAN PERMITTED TO ENTER HEAVEN Once in my presence a man of evil life entered at death into the world of spirits. When the angel and saints wished to help him he at once began to curse and revile them, and say, God is altogether unjust. He has prepared heaven for such flattering slaves as you are, and casts the rest of mankind into hell. Yet you call Him Love! The angels replied, God certainly is Love. He created men that they might live forever in happy fellowship with Him, but men, by their own obstinacy, and by abuse of their free will have turned their faces away from Him, and have made hell for themselves. God neither casts any one into hell, nor will He ever do so, but man himself, by being entangled in sin, creates hell for himself. God never created any hell. Just then, the exceedingly sweet voice of one of the high angels was heard from above saying, God gives permission that this man may be brought into heaven. Eagerly the man stepped forward accompanied by two angels, but when they reached the door of heaven, and saw the holy and light-enveloped place and the glorious and blessed inhabitants that dwell there, he began to feel uneasy. The angels said to him, See how beautiful a world is this! Go a little farther, and look at the dear Lord sitting on His throne. From the door he looked, and then as the light of the Sun of Righteousness revealed to him the impurity of his sin-defiled life, he started back in an agony of self-loathing, and fled, with such precipitancy, that he did not even stop in the intermediate state of the world of spirits, but like a stone he passed through it, and cast himself headlong into the bottomless pit. Then the sweet and ravishing voice of the Lord was heard saying, Look, My dear children, none is forbidden to come here, and no one forbade this man, nor has any one asked him to leave. It was his own impure life that forced him to flee from this holy place, for, Except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God (John 3:3). ********** Whether or not such a first hand account squares with the Bible one has no way of screening some of the claims from the whole. And if the whole is tainted then theres nothing for it. Nothing but a warning to content to mine the great treasure we have in the Scriptures and pray for the unction of the Holy Spirit for Him to reveal Christ to us the only sure revelation of the invisible God. george-macdonald/resources/sundar_singh.html
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