Myth Became Fact and Perelandra- Ryan Webb

In Lewis' Myth Became Fact, he counters an argument by Corineus that Christians should "cut the chord" of Christianity because life would be much easier. Corineus refers to modern Christianity as a "modern system of thought which retains the vocabulary of Christianity and exploits the emotions inherited from it while quietly dropping its essential doctrines." In response, Lewis compares the myth and fact involved with Christianity. Lewis admits that those Christians who disbelieve the "Christian story as fact but continually feed on it as myth," will perhaps be, "more spiritually alive than one who has assented and does not think much about it." However, hesuggests that Christians must understand that what is now fact was once myth, and that "it [Christianity] carries with it into the world of fact all the properties of a myth." Furthermore, Lewis explains that the marriage between heaven and earth is "perfect myth and perfect fact: claiming not only our love and obedience, but also our wonder and delight, addressed to the savage, the child, and the poet in each one of us no less than to the moralist, the scholar, and the philosopher."
In Parelandra, one of three books in Lewis' Space Trilogy, we encounter a series of events that provides a great example of what Lewis' explains in Myth Became Fact. This example occurs when Professor Weston attempts to persuade the queen to disobey Maleldil's orders. Ransom, understand biblical principles and theology, realizes that if Weston succeeds than the fall of man will be re-enacted in Parelandra. After Weston defeats Ransom in debate, Ransom hears a divine voice in the middle of the night demanding physical force to stop Weston. A reluctant Ransom then proceeds to debate with the voice for the entire night until Ransom finally agrees to confront Weston with physical force.
This is a perfect example of one who understands the fact involved with the Christian doctrine. Ransom is extremely knowledgeable and is about to rationally deduce the actions of Weston and the Queen, but when confronted with action, has a difficult time accepting the myth behind Christianity, the mysterious awe intrinsically wrapped in every miracle within the Bible. For a short time, Ransom, the intelligent, rational agent, is adamantly opposed to physical violence because he cannot grasp the irrational, seemingly impossible request of the divine.