Lewis deepens the spiritual experience of his characters by making Aslan harder to find. Faith now enters into the equation, belief without seeing. An example is the mouse Reepicheep, who is …show more content…
The Magician's Nephew gives us Narnia's Genesis account. Here Aslan is established as the Creator and he sings Narnia into existence. It is very similar to the story in Genesis of God creating the world. Aslan tells the creatures, “I give to you forever this land of Narnia. I give you the woods, the fruits, the rivers…The Dumb Beasts whom I have not chosen are yours also”.
Other examples of the similarities between Christ and Aslan include when Aslan says "I am the great Bridge-builder". Christ in the New Testament too says, "I am the Way, the Door": In The Horse and His Boy Aslan tells "'Touch me. Smell me. Here are my paws, here is my tail, these are my whiskers'" which is like Jesus telling John to touch his hands and side when he doubts Him.
Another resemblance is that the blood of both Jesus and Aslan can bring the dead to life. A drop of blood from Aslan’s pierced paw revives the dead Prince Caspian and brings him to a younger version of himself in The Silver Chair. Christ’s shed blood has the power to resurrect believers into new life too. In the same book, Aslan replies “I am” which parallels the reply God gave Moses, “I AM WHO I