MY RIGHTS OR GOD’S GRACE
In his satire, The Great Divorce, C. S. Lewis takes us with a busload of ghosts who have made an excursion from hell to heaven with a view to remaining there permanently. They meet the citizens of heaven, the “solid people.” One very big ghost is astonished to find in heaven a man who, on earth, was tried and executed for murder. “What I’d like to understand,” he explodes, “is what you’re here for, as pleased as punch, you, a murderer while I’ve been walking the streets down there and living in a place like a pigsty all these years.” The solid person tried to explain that he has been forgiven, that both he and the man he murdered have been reconciled at the judgment seat of God, but the big ghost isn’t having any of it. The injustice of the situation staggers him. “My rights!” he keeps shouting. “I’ve got to have my rights, same as you, see!”…
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