Multiple people connected the LDS view with that put forward by the antagonist (the Un-man) of C.S. Lewis’ book, “Perelandra.” The novel is the second in Lewis’ space trilogy and imagines a scenario on Venus where the Queen of that Eden-like planet faces a temptation similar to that of Eve.
“This is almost exactly the argument made by the Un-man in Perelandra,” said one person responding to Dem Saints’ original post.
“If you read this out loud, you can’t get the full sense of it unless you use the original accent, but you only get when speaking with a forked tongue,” said Griffin Gulledge, pastor of Fayetteville First Baptist Church in Fayetteville, Georgia.
Jennifer Buck, wife of Pastor Tom Buck of First Baptist Church of Lindale, Texas, said, “So -sin/destruction/death is superior to -perfection/no pain/no death? Dang. She had eternal life. She threw it away by her actions. Sin does distort the mind.”
