How the Series Portrays Faith

When I first thought about doing a fictional work about a fictional world, I thought long and hard about how I would depict the world’s faith in God. Among the things that I had to consider was how to portray faith in this fictional world and how much revelation that this world would receive.
I didn’t want to create an alternate earth. I wanted to create a new world that would have its own unique advantages and disadvantages. Most readers are quite accepting of alternate viewpoints, especially those viewpoints that at least appear to be fresh and new.
So, there I was searching for a way to get readers to think along with me.  I wanted people who were familiar with the scriptures to understand that the God that I referred to in my fictional world was the same God they knew from the Bible.
That’s when the story of Cain and Abel came to me. The great faith chapter, Hebrews 11, says this about these two men: By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain.
As I meditated on this statement, I asked myself, “How did Abel know his sacrifice was going to please God?” The obvious answer was “by faith.”
Then I asked myself, “What revelation do we know for sure that Cain and Abel had?” The answer to that is found in Genesis chapter three. They understood that they were under a curse because of their sin. In particular, they knew that the ground was cursed. And they knew that plants didn’t cover their nakedness. It took the death of an animal to cover Adam and Eve’s nakedness.
Knowing this, it took faith for Abel to keep sheep. After all, it wasn’t until the ninth chapter of Genesis that God gave man permission to eat meat. Before that, the command was always to eat vegetation. Abel was not providing for his physical needs by keeping sheep; he was providing for his spiritual needs.
Cain made no such provision. His thinking was that if vegetables are good enough for him, they would be good enough for God, despite what his conscience told him was right. Cain made no room for faith in his life, working against his own conscience. God’s response to Cain in Genesis 4:7 makes it clear the Cain knew that it was right to offer an animal offering. Cain just lacked faith. Instead, he spent all his time providing for himself, and no time providing for an offering to give God.
This story is the essence of the faith found in the book series. The God character in this book gives enough light to the people of Kosundo for them to know what is right and what is wrong. They know what is pleasing to God and what is only pleasing to themselves.
In addition, the God character of the book gives the people of Kosundo an advantage over the people of earth. He kept the evil character, the destroyer, out of Kosundo for thousands of years. Yet, when the destroyer was finally allow to visit Kosundo, he immediately capitalized on man’s sinful nature and soon he was able to instigate the scenario that Kosundo faces as A Beacon of Hope begins.
It is the fight for the souls of men that the whole series is based upon. It is a fight that is clearly illustrated by an ultimate decision that each character has to make. Although the decision is sometimes clouded within circumstance, the basic choice that each character faces is the choice between doing what is best for oneself or do what is best for others and also pleases God.
So the faith of The Sixth World of Men became a faith of conscience. Following what light is given to you, or following what each individual deems right in his own eyes.