Reading and...

It’s such a joy to be able to read a book.

Although this book seems anti-Christian, there’s no denying it is captivating. As I read, I kept admiring the author’s imagination. Every story is arranged with care, and the language and descriptions draw you in.

But as a Christian, while reading I had to keep reminding myself: a story is only a story; don’t judge the God the author describes. The god in this book is very human. You could say the author uses the persona of god to lead the reader to reflect on themselves.

The author calls himself a Possibilian (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sum_(novel)). He says of himself: “I’m open to…ideas that we don’t have any way of testing right now.” (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possibilianism)

But faith is not science. It cannot be tried, cannot be tested. “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Hebrews 11:1. If we had the ability to verify God, we would be God. The human heart, human sin, is precisely the wish to become God.

If people could put themselves down and stop looking at themselves, there might be another forty stories.