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material in my experience so as to alternately challenge, encourage, warn, or guide me. And because I have experienced this activity always leading to my personal benefit, I have been won – and seek only to promote Biblical Theism. The Bible is the introduction into the inexhaustible Ocean of God – of unending bounty. In Christ “are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” (Col 2:3).

The importance of the resurrection of Jesus Christ cannot be overemphasized. It is obvious there are competing value systems in the world. While I do not agree with Nietzsche that “might makes right,” I will say that might, if exercised, creates dominance. The hope is that the value system of the exercising dominant … is right. Herein lies one of the great hopes of Christianity. Even before the crucifixion, “the Father had given all things into His hands” and after He rose from the dead, Jesus announced, “(A)ll authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth” (Jn 13:3 and Mt 28:18). In Hebrews, after detailing more thoroughly Jesus’ current position of eternal dominance, comes this: “For in subjecting all things to Him, He (God the Father) left nothing that is not subject to Him. But now, we do not yet see all things subjected to Him” (He 2:8). For His own reasons, He has not yet decided to impose His standards. But, this is a temporary situation. Such claims are either myth, or impotent bluffs … or true. The bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ serves as a marker dispelling myth or bluff. It stands as an immovable book divider between two great bookends. At one end is the original Creation and at the other end is the recreated one. There are multitudes of competing “books” on each side of the Resurrection Divider –

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