Amazing Grace and Appalling Ingratitude
Though I fervently believe them, I am very leery of ‘Bible stories.’ Like ‘bedtime stories,’ the term suggests make-believe, the stuff of legends, tall tales, and fables—in a word, fiction. In the case of the Bible however, the taint of unreality is wholly undeserved. The following is not a fairytale, but an eyewitness account, set down within the same generation, recounting real events that actually transpired. The fact that it is recorded in the Bible points to, rather than detracts from, its veracity. It is not,…