THE SEED A TRUE MYTH BY ERIK GUZMAN
The story of the Bible and the Gospel
can be summarized this way:. God creates all things and it is good, man believes a lie
and seperates himself from God plunging himself along with all of creation into
utter darkness; and God becomes man in order to rescues him and all of creation
from the darkness.
In “The Seed-the True Myth” Erik Guzman
uses that backdrop and creates a story of eternal love and the triumph of Love
over every darkness. The book portrays how in our brokenness and helplessness,
we see the hand of God extended to us in Love with suspicion and fear. We are
so lost that we saw the light of God’s love and viewed it as utter darkness. While
we worshipped Satan and his principle of self-centeredness and fleshly indulgence.
In the book he portrays how we view God as the taskmaster who expects us to
work to the bone and who is never satisfied. He also portrays how many of us
are so willing to serve this god and our feeble attempts at pleasing this god,
in spite of the constant voice in our heads telling us we are not doing enough.
We build bigger and bigger temples, doing more and more acts of service, offer
bigger and bigger sacrifices and pray longer and longer but it is never enough.
In reality, this “god” is Satan, using the madness we fell into at the fall to
superimpose himself as God. In other words, he is filling the vacuum of the
false impressions we have about God and gaining great power from it. Satan is
the first and ultimate being that fell into the madness of flesh, and by eating
from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, we joined him in his madness
But it’s not all gloomy, because Erik
also shows how God who is Love came and shattered the power of Satan in a way
he never expected or even understood, because it was through Love and Divine sacrifice
and self-giving; A way Satan had abandoned eons ago. And God calls us to join
him in that way again, his Holy Spirit is like a river flowing over the whole
world beckoning on all mankind to drink of him and fill themselves with the
light of his love. Halleluiah
This is a wonderful novel that wraps
the Gospel in a beautiful fantasy story, much like C.S Lewis and portrays its
beauty so wonderfully. I don’t agree with a few ideas in the book, but so what,
he doesn’t agree with me too. In the grand scheme of things, the story is
compelling and can be enjoyed just as a novel. But it is also a great portrayal
of the Gospel.
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Connection:
Now I
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