Two Tenets of Truth
Potential images of Myeemians from author Randy C. Dockens’ book Myeem.
The two series written by Randy C. Dockens, The Coded Message Trilogy and the Erabon Prophecy Trilogy, convey two Christian tenets of faith that must be true for God to be who he has claimed himself to be.
God is Truth
The first tenet is that God cannot be shut out just because a society tries to take him out of their culture. The Bible teaches that God is the source of truth and his desire is for mankind to know truth. Granted, humans have tried to redefine the definition of truth and try to convey that truth can be different for individuals as touted by the mantra: you live according to your truth, and I’ll live according to mine. Yet, logically, such a statement cannot be correct. Truth is not defined by individuals. The very definition of the word truth indicates that it is a singular thing and cannot be dual in nature. It is not dictated by what we wish it to be but is defined by universal laws. The laws are governed by God and so cannot be debated away just because we may not like what the universal truth is conveying. This is the theme that The Coded Message Trilogy deals with. The characters have grown up in a world where Community has replaced the idea of God, and the good of the community is the goal of every citizen and defines their worth. The better they contribute to community, the better of a person they express themselves to be. Living in such a way is their driving force.
Yet, such a concept may help a person live a constructive life, but it does not put all of life into context. It does not explain a concept of evil, and it doesn’t speak to what occurs when one dies. The only control one can have is what they do as they live but doesn’t give any hope for one’s eternal future. The characters in The Coded Message Trilogy discover that their lives are being manipulated and so their actions are not really their own. This causes them to desire to know what truth really is. When one has such a deep desire, God will always have them discover truth – his truth. This trilogy goes from discovery of truth, to what one does with the information obtained, to what consequences arise from discovering such truth. In their case, a one-way trip to Mars.
God is God Everywhere
The second tenet is that God is God everywhere. There is much debate about whether aliens exist. In my opinion, they do not—or not as corporeal entities. However, if they do exist, God would be their God just like he is our God. This truth is the foundation for the Erabon Prophecy Trilogy. An astronaut gets thrown so far into the universe that he does not even know where he is anymore in relation to where home is for him. He resigns himself that he is where he is for the remainder of his life and must figure out a way to cope with that fact.
Yet, there is a sub-tenet that is presented in this story. That is that nothing happens without a specified reason. It may not be a reason we at first realize or even agree with, but there is a rationale there, nonetheless. In this case, the astronaut discovers that he is intertwined within a prophecy of this alien world where one is to come and reunite all six of their clans who once lived together but now reside on separate planets. He is the forerunner to the coming of their deity back to them again. He doesn’t really understand it but comes to accept it. To his surprise, he discovers that the strange things about him and his skin’s electro-conductance that the medics on his world found abnormal are the very things that make him fulfill the prophecies this world expects from one who is a forerunner to their deity, Erabon. Bottom line: God is the God to all his creations without partiality to any, and he works with and among them all to yield and produce his truth for all to understand.
Each series is a trilogy. The Coded Message Trilogy is composed of T-H-B, F-S-H-S, and T-U-L-E. In each book, the book title is the code that the main characters must find and decipher to discover the truth for which they seek. In the Erabon Prophecy Trilogy the order is Myeem, Sharab, and Qerach. Each book covers two planets that the main character must reunite to achieve the unity expected before Erabon, their deity, will return.
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