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The Counsel of Trent

#290 - C.S. Lewis’s trip to Heaven (with David Bates)

The Counsel of Trent

Catholic Answers

Religion & Spirituality

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

What would it be like to go on a bus trip between hell and heaven? In this episode Trent sits down with Pints with Jack co-host David Bates to talk about C.S. Lewis’s book The Great Divorce.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

0:07.2

And welcome back to the Council of Trend Podcast.

0:12.2

I'm your host, Catholic Answers Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.

0:15.3

Today is part two of our imaginative supposings with David Bates, the co-host of the Pints

0:20.1

with Jack Podcast.

0:21.8

Last time, we spoke about imaginatively supposing what it would be like to look at the correspondence

0:27.1

between a senior demon and a junior demon, screw tape and wormwood, who are trying to

0:31.6

tempt a man to give up on God and be damned for all eternity.

0:35.8

And in the process, we learned how to avoid those kind of temptations and get to heaven.

0:40.6

And getting to heaven is nothing we're going to talk about today.

0:42.7

And our imaginative supposing about what it would be like to take a bus trip to heaven

0:47.4

with stops at hell and purgatory along the way in very creative ways.

0:51.8

So joining us again, Mr. David Bates, David.

0:54.4

Welcome back to the Council of Trend Podcast.

0:55.9

And it's great to be back and I'm glad that we're heading to heaven this time.

0:59.0

Yes, we always got to start with the dark before we can end with the light.

1:03.8

So we're going to go there.

1:05.2

Before we get there though, a special reminder, be sure to check out trendhornpodcast.com.

1:09.6

So I can continue doing the podcast and have great guests like David Bates on the show.

1:14.9

Also to have guests to engage me in dialogue and debates.

1:17.4

We'll be doing a debate on the Deutero canonical books and scripture coming up here in April.

1:22.3

A debate is on why our Protestant Bible is smaller.

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