Elevator: A Short Novel About Life

by Scott MacPherson

Overview

A chance accident traps four strangers in an office-building elevator: a woman who works in the building; a man on his way to a job interview; a man en route to meet his divorce lawyer; and the Devil on his way to kill people on the tenth floor. Incredulous at first, the three humans gradually accept the Devil’s identity as they open up to each other in an animated discussion of the big questions of life: Is God real? Is there free will? Is God all good and the Devil all bad? Why do bad things happen? What happens to us after we die? Are religions man-made? Are different religions incompatible? What is the Devil’s motivation for what he does?

Before rescue crews save them they come to realize that life is about love, and they realize that what makes God good is that he sticks around in the face of trouble -- even though these conclusions don’t make any sense to the Devil.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013878297
Publisher:	sanctified books
Publication date:	12/16/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	354 KB

About the Author

Scott MacPherson lives in California with his three children, two cats, a lizard, two ant farms, some fish, and his wife of 16 years. He has been studying and living the Christian religion for about 25 years, over time having taken two undergraduate courses on the Bible and a half-dozen seminary classes, held a few church leadership positions, ingested more religion books than what an American college requires of its undergraduates, and discussed and debated religion with atheists and agnostics for many many hundreds of hours. He has also studied Buddhism and Islam, including attending many Friday worship services at a local Islamic mosque, visiting both a Zen center and a Zen temple to speak with the priests, and literally reading every Buddhism book in two city libraries. But none of that pays the bills, so for money he has variously worked as a mathematician (M.S., Purdue University), a lawyer (J.D., Chapman University), a software developer, and now, lastly, as a writer.

Editorial Reviews

I loved how you have portrayed the different characters and their religious or non-religious backgrounds. Your book raises so many wonderful questions and has an entertaining and sincere way of pondering the possible answers. The prose is clear, concise and very easy to understand - no mumbo jumbo christianese. It’s straightforward and sensitive to anyone searching for the truth no matter where they currently are in their spiritual journey. It reminds me a lot of The Shack in that manner.

Dianna Lanser

I feel like I'm reading an episode of "The Twilight Zone." This is well-written...you pack a lot of really heavy questions into a simple scenario and really challenge your readers to a higher level of thinking.

James Revoir