Born Again
Taken from The Gospel According to twilight
Description
Born Again Chapter 5
Vampire stories are all about forbidden fruit, which means they are about hunger, temptation, deceit, sin, and death. Twilight is thoroughly vampiric in this way. But as anyone who has read Genesis knows, sin doesn’t have the last word. Love wins the day. The head of the serpent will be crushed. Salvation is on the way.
Stephenie Meyer does not disappoint in presenting the good news of salvation. The preface of the first novel opens with a teaser, our Bella staring into a sadistic vampire’s face. She is preparing to die so that her mother might be saved. But what does salvation really mean in Twilight? What is one saved from—sin? What is one saved for—heaven? What is the process of conversion, and just who is the savior? Where does God fit in?...