Hello 🙂 I’m a bit late, but I thought this was an interesting topic and wanted to mention something that struck me as I was reading.

This is clearly not a view accepted by everyone but I really don’t think that it’s necessarily wrong or lazy to portray the God we know, as we know Him, in a fantasy world.

I understand that a simple copy and paste job can come across as negligent but I think there’s an amazing amount of scope opened up by introducing the same God in a different world. It can sometimes be very valuable to approach well-known truths from a different angle.

I just think there’s a danger in pushing the boat so far away from reality that it’s no longer decipherable. Just because it’s not as artistically profound to write about God in the same way that we experience Him in our world doesn’t mean it’s lazy; it’s certainly easier for people to relate to. Portraying the Gospel in a fantasy world can be done well, and might very well still offer a fresh perspective that resonates with readers in a way that their day-to-day experience of the Gospel might not.

Execution is vital; there is plenty of writing advice that acknowledges exceptions to rules; examples of books that didn’t heed a certain convention but still managed to execute their message well. At the end of the day, I suppose we have to agree that what works for one person’s story might not work for another’s.