One of my goals in writing City of a Thousand Gods was to encourage people to begin viewing the Bible as a book about real people. I hoped they would decide they might enjoy reading. So I was thrilled when a woman in Michigan told me the novel helped her see the Bible as more than the ho-hum collection of Sunday School stories that bored her for years. Before she even finished reading, she delved into the first verse in Genesis, has already made her way to Leviticus and plans to read all the way through.
And she’s loving every word.
What has my Michigan friend discovered now that she’s seeing the Bible through fresh eyes? A book packed with exciting stories of flesh and blood real people she can identify with.
But I have even cooler news for her. The Bible is one single continuously-unfolding narrative with fully-developed sub-plots and beautiful imagery. Written over a period of 1,600 years on three different continents by forty different authors, the story begins with God’s creation of the world and weaves through thousands of years to the end of time -- yet never contradicts itself. Not once.
Even better, the story ends with a twist. We find out that the Jesus, the protagonist who defeats the villain by giving his own life to save all of Mankind, was present in the very first verse of the book. Jesus was the Word who spoke Creation into existence!
The Bible gives me the I'm-thrilled shivers.
And every bit is true!
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