Since this genre mixes logic and boundary pushing, some have termed science fiction the genre of ethics and morality. This exploration of what is ethical and moral points to the fact that we desire—we need—boundaries and absolutes. After all, God created the world with an order, both physically and spiritually. We instinctively sense that, and so science fiction pushes edges in a desperate attempt to discover what boundaries exist and what is truly unchanging in an ever-shifting world.
Therefore, it is important to read the science-fiction genre because it reminds us that there are absolutes in the world; for God is not a man that He should lie (Numbers 23:19), but that His law is truth (Psalm 119:142)—indeed, Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life (John 14:6).
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