Sin as Bent

C.S. Lewis, author of the Chronicles of Narnia, also wrote a science fiction trilogy, where the main character travels to another world. At one point he has to describe Sin to a group that has never heard the term. He finally describes Sin as being “bent.” Perhaps Lewis meant this in the same sense as Martin Luther when he described our spiritual lives as being curved – that we are misshapen. That we do not act, nor do we live as we were made to be. Not fit for our intended purpose. We are all bent, some like the woman in the Gospel, literally bent over. The rest of us are bent in a way that we can hide much easier, simple out of shape and not as God intended.