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Hi Jared (@jared-williams),

Yeah, I get it.  But the idea that anything but God can give life is where I diverge.  I have always hated zombie stories because it seems to imply a life after death that is wholly given credit to “devils”.  The only thing I might could concede is animated dead flesh with another entity in possession of the body.  But the one born naturally to the body, has passed on eternally.

As a Christian writer, to me, “the zombie idea” feels like a mockery of “resurrection” and it attributes a quality to the “forces of darkness” that I am not willing to concede even in fiction.  Calling the dead back to life was one of the ways God/Jesus authenticated Himself.  I can see where a devil might want to give an illusion that they can do the same, but it has to be only that.  An illusion.
In fact, I have that very thing happening in my “work-in-progress”.

I do not think “forces of evil” can create anything.  I think they would like people to believe they can.  It all goes back to Satan being the father of lies and deception.  Evil adulterates, corrodes, dissembles, diseases, and distorts creation, but devils cannot duplicate the power of God to create living beings or create out of nothing.

In whose hand [is] the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind. [Job 12:10 KJV]

It seems to me that the idea of a zombie makes a mockery of life-after-death and is pagan.  As a Christian, (thinking of 1 Corinthian 15:17-21) the idea holds great promise and certainty for my faith and it is hard for me to see how that could be edifying.

Sorry guys, I’m just going to have to pass on this one.