To follow up on my History of Myth post on Quora, here is the chapter “MYTH BECAME FACT” from GOD IN THE DOCK by C.S. Lewis My friend Corineus has advanced the charge that none of us are in fact Christians at all. According to him historic Christianity is something...
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Close as Your Next Phone Call: The Story of Scripture
STORY OF SCRIPTURE The Word in the World Pentateuch For thousands of years the people of God had no full copy of God’s Word. The Israelites of the Exodus had the word of Moses, and the books he was writing. Otherwise it was hearsay. The judges had a couple more books....
Mystic Union between Christ and the Saints
What is the Bride of Christ? We know that the Church is the bride, but WHAT is this bride? Some implications seem, almost, vulgar. But it is a concept repeatedly used in Scripture, in the Wisdom books, in the Prophets, and most emphatically from Christ himself and...
Sarabi Dog of Alexander: Mystery and Fact
What is the connection between Alexander, the Persian Mastiff (Sarabi dog), and the Turkish Kangal? Where did the dog come from? Which breed was Alexander's dog? This article explores this mystery in depth. The Sarabi dog is featured in the novel TRUNK OF SCROLLS: A...
Bent by Suffering
We are all like leaning trees, learning to bend to adversity. “Then I noticed one crooked tree on the river. It leaned over the river as if there was a time it was going to fall in.” I tilted my hand at an angle. “But the tree’s top half was as straight as the others...
Abortion on the DECLINE?
According to the statistics, abortion is on the decline! Doesn't Abortion Decrease the Crime Rate? I recently came across pro-choice material on Quora claiming that the decrease of crime since the 1960s is directly related to the increase in abortion options. Some...
Up and Down
What is True? Have you ever wondered how we can really know what is true? Why do we have the world map with America and Russia at the top and Australia at the bottom? Somehow mapmakers agreed on a North Pole at the Top world map, and that is what we are used to. This...
I Heard the Bells
I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, and wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men! And thought how, as the day had come, The belfries of all Christendom Had rolled along The unbroken song Of peace on earth,...
What Would Einstein Do?
What Did Einstein Say About God? Einstein thought it was unreasonable to think of an Eternal Being who would judge. The man who is thoroughly convinced of the universal operation of the law of causation cannot for a moment entertain the idea of a being who interferes...
Hope in the Book of Job
We often see the book of Job as a study of suffering. But Job is a story of a man's search for hope in a broken world. After Psalms, Job is the book in the Bible using the word "hope" the most. It uses the word 19 times. But does he find this hope he seeks? He does....
