Strange Truth

Whenever we feel there is something odd in Christian theology, we shall generally find that there is something odd in the truth.

—G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy.

How strange it was that Brother, starting from a position of manifest foolishness, proceeded to demonstrate such wisdom in every other area of thought. Perhaps that was one reason people believed the Bible: it integrated all of reality into a cohesive whole. It made sense of everything – though it itself was nonsense! Alex realized that, at one level, he actually really did believe the Bible. He believed all of it, and delighted in all of it – except the first four words: “In the beginning God.” That part he could not accept. And that meant all the rest would have to be rejected as well.

 —Rich Coffeen, The Discipling of Mytra.