Subject: LEFT BEHIND? |
Bible Note: John, I see your point and respect your view. But I should think it unwise to cast out ALL fictionalized literature that is part of our heritage simply because it frequently alludes to spiritual matters. Should we make an absolutely clean sweep of such fictional writing as being undesirable, we would surely feel constrained to ban Milton and Dante, and even the parables of our Lord would be suspect. To revert to my former statement, I hold that what is offered as truth by a vast horde of false teachers and preachers but is in fact pure fiction bereft of biblical foundational support is a far more fitting subject for condemnation than that which is offered as being merely a fictionalized account. But please don't infer from my words that I am an active supporter by any measure of the current fad -- the plethora of "Christian fiction" that is bowing the shelves of religious bookstores these days. From the casual perusal of this genre, I conclude that it is, by and large, a hunk of banal commercial claptrap --Hank |