I would have a great deal of difficulty responding to your post, SnakeEyes, without delving very deep into my own theological opinions. The discussion of theological issues is not permitted in the Talk About Narnia section of the forum, which is spelled out in our rules:
NarniaWeb Forum Rules wrote:13.) Please confine extended theological discussions to the Narnia and Christianity section (or the appropriate thread in the Spare Oom) so that these topics can be avoided by those who are not interested or who would take offense.
So I'll stick to Narnia and non-theological discussions of Narnian parallels (as best as I can anyways
).
SnakeEyes wrote:If he couldn't die then he could have taken over Narnia, come to earth and stopped those darn Nazis (Narnia was set during WWII) and pretty much owned everybody.
He had no need to "take over Narnia." It wasn't his intent in the first place, and he already owned all of Narnia. He created it, and he was sovereign over it. "Owning everybody" was not a priority of Aslan's, nor is it a priority for Christ. Forced obedience, forced love, forced service: All of these are pretty much worthless unless you're a heartless tyrant.
SnakeEyes wrote:If you use Jesus as an example, could still be cut by normal weapons and needed sustenance to survive just like any other living thing.
That's not necessarily true. Jesus fasted for forty days. The human body starts shutting down after approximately 21 days of fasting. This has a lot to do with protein vs. fat metabolic reactions (which aren't exactly on topic for this thread).
Jesus' capillaries bursting (allowing him to cry blood in the garden of Gethsemenae) is a medical condition that usually results in death. The body is put under so much strain that the capillaries burst, tears of blood fall from the eye, and the person hemorrhages to death within a few hours. Jesus, however, lived to go to trial and execution, which defied physical laws.
Now Aslan and Jesus were both bound by physical laws, this is true. Like King Lune (I think) says, "The King is under the law because it's the law that makes him King." Aslan created the physical laws of Narnia just like Christ created the physical/scientific laws of our world. That is not to say that they (in their role of creator) cannot bend the rules to their will (a process known in our world as a "miracle.")
So would Aslan have died if he got put into a woodchipper (assuming that there was such a thing as a woodchipper in Narnia
). The answer is simple: If Aslan wanted to be chopped into pieces, he would have been, but if Aslan wanted to come out of the woodchipper unscathed. . . he would have. Why? Because the woodchipper is in His world, which means that it's under his jurisdiction, and operates under his laws, which means that it must obey his will.