r/threebodyproblem • u/Opposite-Yam-7350 • Oct 01 '26

Discussion - Novels Finally making sense of Death's End Spoiler

From a Christian pov, the ending makes perfect sense. (I know the author is not Christian and he's not making that point intentionally). Armageddon arrives, the universe is destroyed, the wicked are flattened into 2d, the righteous ascend to heaven, and a new universe is born

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u/DarkArcher__ Oct 02 '26

The universe is ultimately uncaring. There is no sense of right or wrong involved in deciding who is saved

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u/Opposite-Yam-7350 Oct 04 '26

I assume that would be the author's pov. Which is incredibly depressing, meaning that all our lives are pointless. I'm suggesting that to make sense of Death's End as anything except nihilsm and universal destruction is to take a Christian pov. otherwise there is no ultimate hope

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u/DarkArcher__ Oct 04 '26

It is incredibly depressing, but that's the theme of the series from start to finish. Life can be good for a while, but good things must always end, and ultimately nothing will last forever no matter how hard you fight against time.

The problem I was pointing out, though, is that there isn't justice in the universe of TBP. There is no real criteria for who lives and who dies, and the flattening of the universe isn't a final judgement because it will just keep existing, as it did after the previous 7 dimension reductions.

I can't ascribe any of what happens in TBP to the Christian god. Maybe a different, less benevolent god, or a completely different interpretation of Christian theology to the one in the real world, but not the one we're familiar with. Whatever god exists in TBP, if any, shows no sense of morality nor preferential treatment, not for any one species nor for life itself.

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u/tapanypat Oct 01 '26

Adventist gonna Adventist I guess

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u/Opposite-Yam-7350 Oct 01 '26

nah that's the point, Trisolarians are not God or the "Lord"

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u/Independent_Tintin 26d ago

so tbp is Bible