Lightbringer

I recently finished the third book in the Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks and now left with anticipation for the fourth book. If you are unfamiliar with the series, you should stop reading this and go read that. If you don't want to go read that at this moment, then I'll explain some of it.

In the world in the book, there is magic. The people that can wield it are called drafters and they need sunlight to be able to use their magic. Magic is split up into colors, sub-red, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, superviolet. When a candle burns, a physical substance (wax) is transformed into light. Chromaturgy in the Lightbringer is the inverse: A drafter transforms light into a physical substance (luxin). Each different color of luxin has its own strength, weight, and even smell: blue luxin is hard, red is gooey, yellow is liquid, etc. But even as drafters change the world, the luxin changes them too, physically, mentally, and emotionally. Using too much it changes their eyes, when the color breaks out of the iris, they loose control and are usually put down.

In the books, the world was created by Orholam. And because I am curious, I just googled that name, turns out, if you write it as Or Holam it means the light of the world in Hebrew. As I read about some of the stuff they say Orholam did, creating magic, how the earth was made, and many other things that come up throughout the three books, I keep getting a feeling that it draws allusions to Christianity.

This got me thinking, What happens when a work of fiction is more Christian than some Christians out there. I recently posted something on my Facebook, a quote from the book.

""The moment of creation itself was a perfect word perfectly wedded to a perfect will. "

I found this to be very good at describing what the bible says about creation. God spoke everything into existence. When he was done, it was good, it was perfect like he was perfect. In this work of fiction, God can be seen talking, even if he isn't in it. It seems the fiction had more theology correct than some of the life long members of churches.

In these books, God has his hand in what everyone is doing, whether they believe in him or not. Yet some Christians seem to think that God set the world in motion then left it. Or worse, that every thing that happens is part of his plan, which negates the freewill that we have. But the truth is, God is working, He is working now even as you read this. He will use every bad circumstance if you allow him to use it, and use you. Maybe he is working on your heart, or a heart of a friend. But whatever it is, he is there, working, loving, and readying everything just for you. So be ready yourself,