When I read The Magician's Nephew for the first time, the part about Frank not wanting to be king without his wife reminded me of this part of the book of Genesis.

18 The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” 19 Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. 20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals. But for Adam no suitable helper was found. 21 So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

King Frank and Queen Helen are explicitly compared to Adam and Eve in the Last Battle. To be honest though, I feel like some people have exaggerated the connections between the Narnia books and the Bible. There are definitely Christian themes in the books but they aren't whole plot references to the Bible. Attempts to match up each main character with a biblical figure don't stand up to much scrutiny in my experience.

(I'm not saying this thread is bad. I just wanted to express that opinion in case people don't remember my expressing it on the old forum.)

King Frank and Queen Helen are explicitly compared to Adam and Eve in the Last Battle. To be honest though, I feel like some people have exaggerated the connections between the Narnia books and the Bible. There are definitely Christian themes in the books but they aren't whole plot references to the Bible. Attempts to match up each main character with a biblical figure don't stand up to much scrutiny in my experience.

(I'm not saying this thread is bad. I just wanted to express that opinion in case people don't remember my expressing it on the old forum.)

Actually I agree with you there, Col Klink. There is a tendency to assume that everything in Narnia represents something- but if we go down that road we'll soon be asking what the significance of all Dwarfs having a smoking habit is. These stories, as is probably so often pointed out, are meant to be supposals- not everything has a Biblical parallel.
This thread is just about finding verses in the Bible that remind us of Narnia- I'm not saying that all of the Narnia-to-Bible similarities that we discover as people continue to post will be significant parallels.

I agree too.
I find it hard to understand why some people insist on drawing a parallel between every person and event of Narnia and something in the Bible.
The Narnia stories are not the Bible - people and events do often remind us of things in the Bible but they are NOT those things, nor do they represent them.
The Narnia books are not allegorical in any way. The writer said so.

Well, CS Lewis was a Christian so to say there aren’t parallels would be false in my opinion. Obviously King Frank isn’t Adam. However, it does appear Aslan is pretty close to being Jesus. I mean, Aslan transforms into a lamb in one of the stories. It doesn’t get much more obvious than that.

It’s hard to escape who you are in your writing. Lewis was a Christian. His Christianity is going to come out in his writing. Whether King Frank was deliberately meant to be Adam or not really isn’t the point. Adam comes out through his writing through the character of King Frank.

So now that we've clarified about the Narnia-Bible parallels, here's another one I thought of:
"His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much.’' (Mark 25:21)
Compare this to the Horse and His Boy, where it says that Shasta didn't know that the reward for one good deed is often to tasked with a harder and better one.
Now, THAT'S probably a valid parallel.

In the Dawn Treader there is a story in the Magician's book that i believe to refer to Jesus (his last days before getting crucified and then coming back to life three days later).

"It was about a cup and sword and a tree and a green hill, i know that much."
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, chapter 10.

1. I believe the cup meant the cup at the last supper.
2. The sword represented the Romans.
3. And the tree and green hill is where Jesus got crucified.

That is one that i thought of.

Yes! Yes! I always like to speculate about that story and I think that is the best explanation I've heard so far. And Aslan tells Lucy that he'll tell the story for years to come- which reminds me of the fact that Christians always learn more about the gospel as they dig deeper into Scripture. It is a story that they are always told every time they read the Bible.
Great thought, bro!

That's a good example of different ways to look at things in the Narnia stories.

Since the books are NOT allegorical, we cannot say that anything actually represents anything from the Bible.
However, these items from the Refreshing Story in Coriakin's book of spells DO remind us of the gospel, and of Jesus' life.
Many things in the Narnia stories remind us, or help us draw parallels, with things in the Bible. And yes, these are entirely due to Lewis's Christian world view (and his love for the Bible).

I'd read somewhere that Lewis based it loosely off of one of his favourite hymns.

There is a green hill far away,
Without a city wall
Where our dear Lord was crucified;
Who died to save us all.
We may not know, We cannot tell,
What pains he had to bear,
But we believe it was for us;
He hung and suffered there.
He died that we might be forg'ven,
He died to make us good,
That we might go at last to hea'en;
Save by his precious blood.
There was no other good enough,
To pay the price of sin;
He only could unlock the gate,
Of hea'en and let us in.
Ohh dearly dearly has he loved,
And we must love him too;
And trust in his redeeming blood,
And try his work to do.

Could the sword refer to the sword Peter (Jesus' disciple, not Peter Pevensie) used to cut off the ear of the servant of the high priest?

Could the sword refer to the sword Peter (Jesus' disciple, not Peter Pevensie) used to cut off the ear of the servant of the high priest?

That is another good way to think of it.

One more thing that i thought of is this

1.The cup could mean wine at the pevensie's Crowning.(LWW CP 17)
2. I believe the sword represented the battle of Beruna
3.The tree and hill i would say is Cair Paravel, Cair Paravel was on a hill and perhaps the tree was the apple trees that they planted.

While The Last Battle is Revelation and deals with last days, there’s no Rapture or seven year Tribulation. Since people have various views on the Rapture, whether it’s going to be before the Tribulation or midway through the Tribulation, CS Lewis may have thought it was best to leave out the rapture in Narnia. 

Here's a way to break down how The Last Battle is the last days. 

1. Shift is obviously the Antichrist. He doesn't imitate the death and resurrection of Aslan. He doesn't set up an abomination of desolation (unless you count Shift manipulating Puzzle into pretending to be Aslan as an abomination of desolation). The way that the Antichrist is played out in Narnia is that Shift takes the name of Aslan and uses that to get the Narnians to serve him.

2. You could decide whether Rishda or Ginger is the False Prophet. I've always had the impression that it was Rishda. He was working along side with Shift, until he got tired of Shift doing everything. He called on Tash, though not believing in him. Then Ginger makes up stories about Aslan. Which of those two being the False Prophet can be up for debate. 

3. Rishda and Ginger's secret plan on "those who care for neither Tash nor Aslan but only have an eye for their profit such as reward the Tisroc may give them when Narnia is a Calormene province" can almost be seen as the Mark of the Beast. It's their way of getting the Narnians to join them. 

4. Tash on the loose in Narnia is seen as the red dragon in Revelation 12. "Be happy, Heaven, and all who live there! But what terror it will be for the earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you! He has great anger and he knows his time is short!"

5. Roonwit's last words "Noble death is a treasure that no one is too poor to buy" parraels that death is not the end of the story. The early Christians were willing to die for their faith and there are still doing so today.

6. The Battle of Stable Hill is no doubt the Battle of Armeggodden. Difference is that the good side will be winning side.

7. Jewel tells Jill that the doorway may as well be the doorway to Aslan's Country. For Christians, death is a doorway to Heaven. 

8. Aslan brings an end to the world of Narnia in a similar way that our world will. Stars falling, fires, sun and moon giving no light. There's even a separation, where Narnians either turned left or right. It parallels the separation between the sheep and goats that Jesus talked about.

9. Aslan has Peter locked the doorway to Narnia with a key. Jesus tells Peter the Apostle that as leader of the church, he will be give keys.

10. The new Narnia. Aslan restored Narnia how he meant it to be. God will create a new heaven and new earth, where everything will be restored. 

Posted by: @jasminetarkheena

While The Last Battle is Revelation and deals with last days, there’s no Rapture or seven year Tribulation. Since people have various views on the Rapture, whether it’s going to be before the Tribulation or midway through the Tribulation, CS Lewis may have thought it was best to leave out the rapture in Narnia. 

"The rapture" is actually not part of the theology of the vast majority of Christian denominations worldwide — only of a handful of Protestant denominations, mainly based in the US. Bluntly put, most Christians don't believe in it at all, including Anglicans, of which C.S. Lewis was one. That's basically why he didn't include anything like it in The Last Battle.

[In fact, The Last Battle is wider than just Revelation]

Please let's avoid theological discussions here, and focus on which parts of Narnia remind us of things in the Bible?

Thank you