Superman Where Is Thy Sting? Paperback – January 1, 2001

Excellent!

A lot of people who read this novel without an understanding of the Christian worldview will not like it or get the underlying premise. In it Superman is faced with the reality of his own (and ultimately everything's) death. As this reality fills his waking consciousness and ultimately is embodied in death itself, Superman is incapacitated by his fear until Death literally shows him his own death at the end of the universe. However in doing so, Superman also sees his afterlife. An afterlife in which he is joined and comforted by his one true love, Lois Lane. Lois Lane reveals to Superman that his "belief" in her love, their love, transcends death. And that through that belief he is set "free" from death. Thus the title "Where Is Thy Sting", a reference to the passage in the Bible in 1 Corinthians 15:55 where Paul expounds on the Resurrection of Jesus Christ:"O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?"However, as in the story, the Bible teaches at Hebrews 2:14-18 that Jesus came and died so that men could know God by destroying the one thing that kept men from God, "their fear of death"."14Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;15And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage."As a result at the end of the story Superman professes that he has been "cured" from his fear of death by his "belief". As all of us who accept the Christian faith also profess that "we have been saved from our fear of death by our belief in the redeeming death of Jesus Christ and the transcending power of his resurrection."