The battle between Christianity and Philosophy started with
Plato’s Allegory of the cave which was an example of ideas and what is
perceived as reality but that is not our focus, you see Plato believed in this
theory called The theory of Forms which in his view he believed what is known
must not only be true but also perfect and unchanging. However nothing in the
Allegory of the cave agrees with statement because a tall man is short when
compared to a tree so then Plato proposed that there must be another world
outside the cave which is perfect and unchanging and this is where our focus is
as most of us know Christianity is based on the afterlife where everything is perfect.
In popular culture there is an echo of Plato's allegory in the writing of C.S. Lewis,
the author of the seven fantasy novels that together form the Chronicles of
Narnia. In the Last Battle the children at the centre of the stories witness
the destruction of Narnia (which in Christian terms could be referred to as the
end of the world) and enter the world of Aslan (Heaven) a wonderful country that includes all that
was best in Narnia. The children finally discover that they have died and
passed from the ‘Shadowlands’, which was but a pale imitation of the
everlasting and unchanging world they now inhabit. So if we agree that there is
a clear echo of Plato’s allegory in these books than does that mean Plato was a
prophet of God’s word or the bases of Christianity are from Plato’s allegory.
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