The Great Divorce Study Guide: A Bible Study on the C.S. Lewis Book The Great Divorce (CS Lewis Study Series)

The answer seems obvious, right? Yet what we’ll find is that it’s not the choice to sin that binds people to Hell but rather the choice not to repent. We must let go, step out into the light, and embrace the better life that God has planned for us. That’s the most confining part about sin—to admit you’re in the wrong.

According to Lewis, “Evil can be undone, but it cannot ‘develop’ into good.” The fact is, we must wholly reject evil for Heaven to be fully embraced.

In The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis, damned spirits are given a vacation or a “holiday” away from Hell to visit Heaven, where they are invited to stay forever. There, they are persuaded by people they formally knew, relatives and friends, to come with them up the mountain to enjoy the bliss of Heaven. But they can only do so by leaving behind what i