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In fantasy, there is a line where the fantastical becomes far-fetched. Where do you draw the line?

Upon another line of thought, similar to that, I was wondering when it comes to catering biblical realities and Christian truth into fantasy, how far is too far when it comes to altering truth to fit into your story?

Here’s an example of what I mean…

I’m currently debating how far to take it and whether to include a mythology into my books, but I’m considering tying my fantasy world to the real world, similar to how Ted Dekker did for his color trilogy (big fan).

My Idea… is strictly fantasy, not to be tied into Revelations… but, you know how Satan goaded (sort of) God to test Job? (I know, bad word choice, but not sure there is a good word choice option there.) Well, I had the idea that, at the end of time, Revelations, of course God wins and Satan loses big time, but for my fantasy, what if Satan, just before losing, proposes a challenge to God? Suppose Satan accuses God of interfering too much in his Creation, and that by doing so, God’s predetermination of who was His and who was going to be saved stripped us of our ability to freely choose. Of course, this is fallacious, but Satan proposes a challenge in which a new world is built in which autonomous beings had more creative ability and freedoms and only a set amount of interference allowed (ie. at the beginning only). (another way of putting this is what if this new world, the populace ate of both the fruit of life and the fruit of good and evil? . . . in a way). Then the world of Kaphar came into being and a select number of humans were elected to populate the new world, and new powers were given to the inhabitants of the new world, etc. It’s an intricate design, and there’s more to it, but that would be the gist of it… The novel series would follow an orphaned son who travels around to different ancient ruins to learn the truth, gather the ‘armor of God,’ and thwart an evil emperor from gaining ultimate power… (with lots of plot twists along the way… ;p )

I’m still not sure about it, like how other Christians would view it… but it’s an idea rummaging through my mind…

What do you think? Is that going too far, or does it make for an interesting background for a novel series?