Just a thought …

Broadly understood, theism means thinking that there’s a Someone behind reality as well as things and actions underlying it.   A Christian further believes that the Someone in question speaks the world into being by means of a living Word who took on flesh and was grievously put to death as a propitiation for some grand wrongdoing  committed by the first man and woman. In doing so He overcame death, which was the consequence of the grand wrongdoing. Though he has since returned to the realm of being from whence He came, eventually, He will return and bring the world to its fulfilling cadence.

This is obviously not a scientific thesis. It represents an altogether different manner of thinking. It postulates that the nature of reality is moral, and not simply mechanical. Its methods are symbol, myth, and drama. Its medium is character.