I was raised to believe that Jesus (or all three aspects of God) are both the lion and the lamb, and anything else that He wants to be. Since Man is in the image of God, God must be too complex to be represented as a single animal. The lion represents His aspects of bravery, nobility, leadership, etc., while the lamb represents His aspects of kindness, gentleness, compassion, etc. It is important to recognize the times that the lion is more important (applicable?) than the lamb, and vice versa; which God, being perfect, always does. Man, being fallible, too often allowed the lion to rule, and you got arrogance, the belief in the divine infallibility of kings, and the rightness of the upper classes over the commoners. There is one scene (I forget where) in the Chronicles of Narnia where Aslan appears as the lamb, which shows that Lewis did recognize the difference. I think that Lewis should have shown Him as something other than the lion more often. But that might have made the Chronicles too obviously preachy.
I was raised to believe that Jesus (or all three aspects of God) are both the lion and the lamb, and anything else that He wants to be. Since Man is in the image of God, God must be too complex to be represented as a single animal. The lion represents His aspects of bravery, nobility, leadership, etc., while the lamb represents His aspects of kindness, gentleness, compassion, etc. It is important to recognize the times that the lion is more important (applicable?) than the lamb, and vice versa; which God, being perfect, always does. Man, being fallible, too often allowed the lion to rule, and you got arrogance, the belief in the divine infallibility of kings, and the rightness of the upper classes over the commoners. There is one scene (I forget where) in the Chronicles of Narnia where Aslan appears as the lamb, which shows that Lewis did recognize the difference. I think that Lewis should have shown Him as something other than the lion more often. But that might have made the Chronicles too obviously preachy.
Fred Patten