Am I unique?

[maidne]

No: HPFGUIDX 171247

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant107" <eggplant107 at ...> 
wrote:
>
> "Cassy Ferris" <xellina@> wrote:
> 
> > this thing always nugged me about
> > Narnia - that Aslan KNEW beforehand
> > that he will come back to life.
> > Not much of a sacrifice, was it? 
> 
> That is a VERY good point! It is also part of the absurdity behind 
the
> entire antiquated Christian belief system.
> 
> Eggplant
>


But the death is only one part of the sacrifice.  It also involves 
the willingness to die, the ability to *not die*, and the identity 
and character of the one who dies.  Aslan could have chosen to let 
Edmund die, or he could have chosen overpower and kill his 
executioners.  He chose to die because he knew that *his* death (not 
Edmund's) would fulfill the Ancient Magic and cause death to "work 
backward".  Aslan died a "substitutionary death", which is what 
Christ did.

This is similar to a point made by JKR in an interview -- she said 
that there was a difference between Lily's death and James' death.  
Lily's death provided a type of protection for Harry that James' did 
not.  It had to do with the fact that Lily did not *have* to die, but 
chose to die herself to save her son.