Screwtape is giving Wormwood Plan A and plan B. He asks Wormwood what type of man the patient is – with the end goal of deciding whether he’s more susceptible to A or B. Screwtape ends by saying Plan A is best – almost certainly. Ultimately it will be up to Wormwood to choose. Compare this to how God instructs us when we go about bringing converts to God.
Screwtape Letter #7 – Discussion Guide More
Screwtape is giving Wormwood Plan A and plan B. He asks Wormwood what type of man the patient is – with the end goal of deciding whether he’s more susceptible to A or B. Screwtape ends by saying Plan A is best – almost certainly. Ultimately it will be up to Wormwood to choose. Compare this to how God instructs us when we go about bringing converts to God.
Screwtape Letter #7 – Questions More
Wait a minute here. Wasn’t it just in the last letter that Screwtape wrote – Consider too what undesirable deaths occur in wartime. Men are killed in places where they knew they might be killed and to which they go, if they are at all of the Enemy’s party, prepared. So why is it that now – in the very next letter – Screwtape is delighted to hear that the patient may be called up to war? What’s different now?
Screwtape Letter #6 – Discussion Guide More
