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    C. S. Lewis
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    I have been reading poems, romances, vision literature, legends, and myths all my life. I know what they are like. I know none of them are like this. Of this [gospel] text there are only two possible ...

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    Bill Gates
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    I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations ...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    The story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us in the same way as the others, but with this tremendous difference that it really happened.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    I am perfectly convinced that whatever the gospels are they are not legends. Christ bent down and scribbled in the dust with His finger. Nothing comes of this. No one has based any doctrine on it. And...

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    Vernon Grounds
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    Genesis 2:24-25, Genesis 39:6-12, Proverbs 7:6-27 , 1 Corinthians 6:18-20, Hebrews 13:4, Psalm 51:1-12
    A source of the intensest pleasure earthlings can experience, sex has also been a source of vexatious trouble for the human family since the beginning of history.

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    David Maraniss
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    Deuteronomy 6:6-7, Exodus 12:24-27, Joshua 4:6-7, Psalm 78:2-4 , Luke 1:1-4, 2 Timothy 2:2
    Myth becomes myth not in the living but in the retelling.

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    William P. Brown
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    [In comparison to ANE creation myths] God creates by word rather than sword.

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    Thomas Aquinas
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    Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

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    Jacqueline Jones
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    The myth of race is, at its heart, about power relations, and in order to understand how it evolved, we must avoid vague theoretical and historical formulations and instead ask, Who benefited from the...

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    Neil Gaiman
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    Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

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    Jason Farman
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    The mythologies of the digital age center around the idea that waiting is keeping you from obtaining what you want and holding you back from living a more fulfilling and productive life.

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    Marilynne Robinson
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    The truth to which all this fiction refers, from which it takes its authority, is the very oldest truth, right out of Genesis. We are not at ease in this world, and sooner or later it kills us.

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    Seth Godin
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    Jeremiah 29:11, Philippians 4:13, Proverbs 16:3, Romans 8:28, Galatians 6:7-8
    The myth seems to be that you’re born with some magic combination of parents, DNA, and lucky breaks, and they conspire to determine what you accomplish in life. Nonsense. And a good thing, too, becaus...

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    Billy Graham
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    Luke 2:1-7, Matthew 2:1-12, Luke 2:8-20, John 1:14, Isaiah 9:6-7, Luke 2:22-32, Luke 1:26-38, Isaiah 7:14, John 8:12, Ephesians 2:19-22
    Christmas is not a myth, not a tradition, not a dream. It is a glorious reality.

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    N. T. Wright and Michael Bird
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    Stories, after all, are one of the most basic modes of human life and are a characteristic expression of worldview. Human life is constituted by a series of stories, implicit and explicit, that makes ...

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    Frederick Buechner
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    It is a world of magic and mystery, of deep darkness and flickering starlight. It is a world where terrible things happen and wonderful things too. It is a world where goodness is pitted against evil,...

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    Walker Percy
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    Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.

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    Anthony J. Kelly
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    Theologically speaking, the ascension of Jesus Christ has, over the years, suffered a form of benign neglect compared to other aspects of Christian faith. This has made it vulnerable to mythic fantasi...

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    Kline R. Snodgrass
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    Matthew 13:1-23, Mark 4:1-20, Luke 8:4-15
    Stories are inherently interesting. Discourse we tolerate; to story we attend. Story entertains, informs, involves, motivates, authenticates, and mirrors existence. By creating a narrative world, stor...

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    Clay Scroggins
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    Autonomy is a myth. It’s a myth passed from one generation of wannabe leaders to the next. Eventually, every leader is forced to come to terms with the reality that everybody is accountable to somebod...

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    Peter Enns
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    Are the early stories in the Old Testament to be judged on the basis of standards of modern historical inquiry and scientific precision, things that ancient peoples were not at all aware of? Is it not...

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    Albert Einstein
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    John 6:68, John 1:14, Matthew 7:28-29, Luke 24:32, Mark 1:27
    No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life.

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    Charles Dickens
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    Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment a...

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

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    Jen Wilkin
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    It is not new truths we need; we need old truths recently forgotten.

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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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    1 Samuel 16:7, Jonah 4:1-11, Exodus 3:10-12 , John 1:46, Acts 10:34-35, Psalm 139:13-14
    The problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete.

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    Jason Lee
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    In antiquity, the Greek word μυστήριον could mean “something secret” or “hidden,” or a “secret rite” of initiation.Mystery terminology was operative in philosophy, asin the works of Plato. Only those ...

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    Paul E. Little
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    James 1:5, 1 Corinthians 13:12, Hebrews 11:1, Romans 1:20, Isaiah 55:8-9, 1 Corinthians 2:14, John 8:32
    Belief doesn’t create truth. Unbelief doesn’t destroy truth. Christian faith goes beyond reason but not against reason.

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    Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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    “Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though he may otherwise be a heretic, an atheist, and ...

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    G. K. Chesterton
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    Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
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