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.....Anyway, lets just stipulate that there are Vampires. Vampires were always portrayed as having a damned soul. Then "Buffy" came up with the idea that Vampires don't have souls.
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Well, Buffy didn't invent it. But a being without a soul is actually a mindless zombie, since your soul is most properly your sense of self, your consciousness. But within fiction it's pretty common to have it be something else, which is actually your heart or conscience. Follow?
I'm an Evangelical, but I think I lost official Fundamentalist status some time ago, if I ever fully had it at all. I personally don't believe in "once saved, always saved", or in predestination, and I quit believing in the Rapture around, oh, 1999, when I realized that what everyone was telling me were signs of The End Times weren't, and weren't even as bad as what people suffered in the last 50, 100, and 1,000 years. The end will come when the end will come, period. As such, I haven't read Left Behind, nor will I, but I don't want to get into any debate about it.
Christian fiction (as opposed to fiction written
by Christians) tends to only appeal to Christians, as its message is usually so strong that it loses its appeal among the general public. Nothing wrong with a market existing specifically for Chrsitians though. I'm not too well read in the genre; I read one Christian romance novel, I think it was by Lori Wick (???), and it was about the most gooey, worst-written thing I've ever read, and I've been put off the genre for life. (Sorry!) I finished it only because a friend of mine asked me to read it.
The situation you're proposing with a vampire is doable, but you'd have to explain where he'd gotten the idea that he had lost his salvation, where vampires come from, how he or she gets their blood if they
don't get it from other people, whether they need it at all. You'd also have to explain why the vampire thinks that because he's lost it's still okay to go on sinning- if he loves Jesus more than anything, wouldn't he still want to follow Jesus, and sit outside even a locked door, in desperate hope? He'd not only be guilty of carnal sin, but also despair and lack of faith which, in my opinion is the worse sin. It's a small little piece of an idea now; but it would take a lot more thought to make a good, meaningful story out of it.
There is a Christian Fiction thread in
General Books. If you do a search, you will find it- the thread's busy gathering dust somewhere in the void.
And vampires looking for redemption is a pretty common theme- Can't think of any specific instances, but I know they're out there.