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  • So if Jesus becoming human means that all sapient races younger than us will be Human Aliens from now on, because what else would they look like, then wouldn't that same train of thought mean that all individual humans should have the same physical and facial features as Jesus too? Additionally, Pr. Lewis was well aware that God is held to be Atemporal in Christian Theology, so why are only the races that are born after humans affected in this way?
    • Because while God exists outside of time, his Incarnation as a human was a specific event that took place within Time. As for the first point, Lewis (as mentioned elsewhere in his nonfiction works) believed the Bible to teach that just as Jesus shared in our death and suffering, we in turn will be permitted to share in his glory. All believing humans are made Sons and Daughters of God, and so the entire human race has become the Image of God.
      • That logic follows the Four Terms Fallacy. Being the "Image of God" is meant figuratively and metaphorically, it doesn't mean we have to actually visually resemble Jesus now anymore than Genesis saying that Adam was "made in God's image" means that God actually is a Grandpa God after all. Besides, as I said previously, that logic would also mean that we should all have the same physical characteristics and facial structure as him.
      • The Incarnation is referred to in Perelandra as "time's corner." The universe is different since God became a material part of it. Tor Looks Like Jesus because he's the Adam of Perelandra. There's a tradition that Adam and Jesus were physically identical.
    • To address the question on a less abstract level, maybe "will look like Jesus" means "will look enough like Jesus." Lewis is saying that God made the human body plan special by using it as a form for purposes of incarnating into the created universe, so the body plan will be adhered to because it's special now. But perhaps the special-ness attaches to the general body plan, not the exact physical features?
  • The lie Ransom tries to tell the Queen ("What is that?" - "It is nothing") and the way the Un-Man can keep Ransom awake all night ("Ransom" - "Nothing" - "Ransom" - "Nothing" - "Ransom" - "Nothing" - ...) are nearly identical. Make of that what you will.
    • Furthermore, none other than Maleldil (of all people) imediately seriously tells him off for it through their psychic linknote  - and practically mentally zen slaps him for for lying to Tinidril: the act itself of telling a lie becomes physically rather painful and extremely nauseating to Ransom — the narration compares it to a vomit tearing all through him — which quite emphatically conveys the disgust and disappointment.
    • But whatever the reason to be so drastic: going by the effect of just that one time it's probably a good thing Ransom only tried that once, and not very seriously at that. Considering the later plot events following from even that one essentially non-malicious lie, and that Maleldil needs Ransom explicitly to counteract the influence of The Corrupter to prevent the end of Perelandra, Maleldil has very good reason to enforce Cannot Tell a Lie on Ransom towards Tinidril. When Ransom tries to lie to Maleldil Himself half a book later, the latter much less drastically just gives him a very disappointed Look until Ransom stops it — and even gets the snark on:
    You know you're just wasting time.
  • A piebald is the Perelandrian version of a sheep. Piebald also becomes Ransom's nickname, because Tinidril (who's a Green-Skinned Space Babe herself) thinks he rather looks like one with his pale skin and blotches of sunburn. So Ransom's Perelandrian nickname is actually "sheep".

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