The Law of Undulation
Chapter 8
Their nearest approach to constancy, therefore, is undulation -- the repeated return to a level from which they repeatedly fall back, a series of troughs and peaks.
According to Screwtape, we humans are “amphibians" —half spirit and half animals, what key does this provide for understanding human nature?
He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles.
Screwtape says God “cannot ravish. He can only woo,” What do you think that means?I Corinthians 3:1-3 And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual mean, but as to men of flesh, as to infants in Christ. I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were not yet able to receive it. Indeed, even now you are not yet able, for you are still fleshly.Summary: There are different levels of spiritual maturity.