Sci Fi made me understand God

[rossignol]

I grew up watching Star Trek. The TV was brought out for one night a week and we would sit in the living room Sun nights with a bowl of popcorn and watch Star Trek The Next Generation. Later Star Gate came out and I still watch all of them over and over again.

Sci Fi has begun with a basis around science and added to it, I began to relate to it with God. The whole Star Trek thing about time being linear in our realm but non linear or going at the same speed in other's time made me realize God is the same. He exists on another plain than we do and can be everywhere at once because time is not as one dimensional as we perceive it to be.

When I go through the Star Gate series I start to relate God and the enemy with their concept. We are food for the enemy. The enemy wants control over us and will take time for it, us being in a playground. Understanding the importance of how we affect others around us no matter how small or big our actions.

Do you think this way? What is your opinion?

 

[Vanderhaust]

I grew up loving those shows as well, but it had a different effect on me. It impressed upon me a sense of wonder and awe about the the universe. This sense of wonder has driven me to learn all that I can about the universe and the wonders of life all around us. Unfortunately my quest for understanding our universe has also showed me how little the writers of the bible understood it and why it didn't draw me closer to God.

 

[PAYNE1]

I have to agree that sci-fi gives me more of a sense of awe about God and the magnitude of His creation.

 

[Diane_Windsor]

I did not grow up appreciating sci-fi, and only have recently begun to take the genre seriously and develop my interest in it. I find sci-fi concepts such as space and time travel and alternate universes, etc. fascinating. It has lead me to learn more about the physics behind these concepts and has led me to a better understanding of how the universe works. Though I still do not fully understand Einstein's theories I appreciate his genius.

I've always had a deep and abiding interest in theology and God, but I see science and theology as completely different subjects.

 

[griffinwriter]

I know what you mean Payne1 I grew up watching Babylon 5 and shows like that. Looking back I think that's what's given me the question I always ask myself when I start a book. "How would God interact with this race?" unfortunately it usually lands me into a pit of writer's block

 

[Jamali]

To me Einstein made me more understand God. And he was sci-fi and fantasy theories author!

 

[generalbreadbasket]

I'd gotten into sci-fi growing up, and I'd been into astronomy when I was very young. My parents wrote in a book on astronauts when I was 8, "may you find what you are searching for.". Neither of them were Christians at that point, and neither was I. But I found later it was more progressive rock than sci-fi that encouraged me to re-evaluate God. There was something about that music that caused me to search further, though I had been to church and read the Bible when I got a bit older. My testimony is a bit longer and more complex than that but I guess that God is the source of things glorious, and that was key to me.

Sci-fi is an intriguing pursuit, though.

 

[MoonlessNight]

Gene Wolfe's Solar Cycle (Book of the New Sun, Book of the Long Sun, Book of the Short Sun) encapsulates how I feel about God better than anything I could put into words. But unfortunately it is a total of 12 lengthy books, so I can't use it as a short hand. But I can say that "the Outsider" is one of the most brilliant names for God that I have ever heard.

 

[Gottservant]

Star Trek takes as its foundation that the Earth is organized, which we know to be true: under the hand of God.

However, Star Trek also takes as its philosophy that man has done it, yet we see no evidence that God is part of the picture.

This poses an interesting challenge for believers, who are not deceived by philosophy, but are readily able to pray that the will of God be manifest.

I think that it will be interesting to see in what way Christ draws the people of Star Trek to Himself, for they are a people and God does not abandon people for a moment, even when the madness of space threatens their sanity.