The Christian rumor says that if real life zoe is to return it will have to come from the One who created it to begin with. We will not self-help from zoe to bios.
Further the Christian faith says that the Creator is just the kind of God who would be this merciful. However, in order for bios to become zoe , then zoe must become bios and transform it from within. This is why Lewis used His second metaphor. The Christian rumor is that the Great Sculptor became a statue in order to restore His creation from being a lifeless or, at least, life-consuming image of His glory to a life-giving image of His glory.
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Zoe… refers to life in general, without characterization. Bios characterizes a specific life, the outlines that distinguish one living thing from another. In short, zoe means the big picture, bios, the details. Though most of us think somewhere in between the two, we all lean to one side in how we interpret and define the world around us.
Do you like to see things close up or far away? Do you look at the grand and sweeping or the minute and measurable? Do you read a book for its plot or its rhythm? Do your favorite movies tell a story or convey a mood? And you are right. On the other hand, we speak of "biography" for human beings, not merely because they live but because they lead lives and make moral choices.
They not only have "years of existence [zoes]," they also have "ways of living [biou]" Prov. Thanatos and zoe are antonyms only when physical life is contemplated.
When life is regarded from a moral perspective as the opportunity for living nobly, thanatos and bios, not thanatos and zoe, are antonyms. Thus compare Xenophon: "Noble death [thanaton] is preferable to shameful life [bion]" with Plato: "Striving soon for a shameful existence [zoen] rather than for an honorable and blessed death [thanaton]. In the former passage Lycurgus teaches that an honorable death is to be chosen, rather than a long and shameful existence, a vita non vitalis a life not livable because all the reasons for living are gone.
Plato distinguished between the words themselves, as well as their derivatives. Although bios, not zoe, is used in an ethical sense in classical Greek, in Scripture the opposite seems to be the case. In the New Testament zoe is the more noble word and expresses the highest and best that the saints possess in God. Thus we read of the "crown of life [zoes]" Rev. Sometimes zoe is used by itself Matt. All of these examples illustrate the highest blessedness of the creature.
Contrast the preceding examples with the following uses of bios:"pleasure of life [biou]" Luke ; "affairs of this life [biou]" 2 Tim. How may we explain these differences? Only revealed religion relates death and sin as necessary correlatives Gen.
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