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So… had an idea that went….. (BOOM! oooooh…… C. O. O. L. !)

But then, the more I think about it, the more I wonder if it would be rejected or questioned or looked down upon within the Christian community…. here’s the basic premise of the idea…

The mythology of my world starts after revelations occurs on earth… I know it’s kinda heretical – so not biblical at all… but it is fantasy…. sooooo…… satan loses, the earth is burned in fire, and the new heaven and new earth descends. God’s people live in the new Jerusalem with Jesus as King and God wins! Right! Right. Up to there, it’s biblically sound…

But…. before satan is thrown into oblivion, he makes one last challenge to God… (so, yeah… this is where it becomes fantasy… and completely off-biblical….) Satan claims that God interfered too much with the humans on earth, so of course it ended up the way it did. (Loosely based this idea on how Satan challenged God when it came to Job…)

Satan then claims if God had really gave humans the free will to choose, they wouldn’t need his interventions. So a new challenge is issued and Kaphar is created and a few of God’s people volunteer to go, and Satan asks for a few unbelievers to be sent there as well (maybe? there are ancient dark forces that exist in Kaphar that stem from this origin…).

Then Satan further challenges that people are too weak, that’s why they needed God’s interventions in the first place, and thus the people are given the capability to manipulate the world around them – thus the essence system was created (Kaphar’s version of magic)… so… yeah.

By the time my novels roll around, this history is all but lost to ancient legends and myths and or completely forgotten by time. The only race who has sort of kept some of the teachings of Maaterra (or Mother Earth – ie. the teachings of Jesus…) are a race whose lives are practically immortal compared to the other races – the L’entians. Yet even for them, most of the teachings have been lost and to top it off, there are very few L’entians left alive…

However, the plan is throughout the series, more and more of these legends are revealed.

The question I have is… is it too close to real? Even though it is fantasy, does changing a bit of revelations seem heretical or in bad form? so to speak… what do you think? Fun and interesting? Or too close to real and heretical sounding?