No Fairy Tales

Matt Miles • January 19, 2018

Once upon a time in a far away land lived… Those words signal our worldview that a fairy tale is about to begin. No matter how old you are, we have all learned from an early age that “once upon a time” starts a journey through fictional lands, experiences, and characters. Sometimes there is some semblance of reality that teaches a moral or favorable character trait. These fairy tales are not historical but rather come from a place in the author’s imagination.

While shopping at a Christian bookstore recently, my wife texted me a picture of a Bible for sale. To my utter shock I observed the picture you see here. It seems to me that the publishers have just destroyed credibility for the Bible in the child’s worldview as historically accurate or real. At the very least, the publisher has just placed the Words of God on an even playing field with other works of literature. Either one of those possibilities are very dangerous in training your children to trust the Lord as the source of Truth.

Please take special note of the tag line at the bottom of the front cover. “The Bible is not a fairy tale. Every great story happened once upon a time.” Again, I appeal to the obvious problem with the main title. If you have to tell us that it is not a fairy tale, then why start our minds down that road from the beginning? Would it be acceptable for us to title the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, “Abracadabra, Open Sesame”? ABSOLUTELY NOT! Why? Because in our worldview those words are attached to magic illusions and not reality. One would most likely have to place a tagline that says, “The resurrection is not an illusion. But every great disappearance follows those words.” If those words were connected to the resurrection, it should bring outrage. At least I pray that it would, especially in those of us that know our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and the power through the glorious resurrection. It is by that power that we have life over death, for ETERNITY. Praise be our Savior alone!

Many of those that do not know the truth view the Bible as a fairy tale already. Please take to heart the following quote from a blogger on ExChristian.net:   “These stories are all scientifically impossible and are so far fetched that only ignorant, primitive desert tribesmen, uneducated children, and the thoroughly brainwashed could take them seriously…Clearly the Bible is merely a collection of fairy tales and should be catalogued and shelved with the fiction section of the library.” 1 As much as this is not the sentiment of most unbelievers, it is representative of all atheists. Notice the appeal to “science” as a measuring stick for fairy tale or not. This is exactly how the Bible was portrayed during a lecture by well-known atheist Richard Dawkins at the University of Oklahoma a few years ago. The event sponsored by the campus atheist club packed the field house with attendees from college students to families with small children. Everyone was “treated” to a night of Bible- and Christianity-bashing, as if it were all a deluded fairy tale.

Here at CTF we revere the Bible for what it is – the very Word of God. Each and every time the Lord provides us an opportunity to preach or teach, we strive to reinforce the reality that the Word of God is accurate and not a story or fairy tale. We will always stand on the Bible and drive home the importance that if Genesis is not properly read, then worldviews will be impacted incorrectly for the rest of scripture. As always, please keep us in yours prayers.

 

1   Sage, W. (2009, March 09). The Fairytale Bible [Web log post]. Retrieved January 18, 2018, from http://articles.exchristian.net/2009/03/fairytale-bible.html

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Ichthyosaur pic

Flooded Marine Reptile

By Matt Miles • October 2, 2025
The Flood during Noah’s day was a devastating judgement against the sin and wickedness of the time. Most people focus on what the Lord did as He saved the eight people and animals on the Ark. Yet while they were being saved, the Flood destroyed the earth and left behind some remarkable things. Geology around the globe shows water burial of plants and animals. Many of the animal remains show signs of drowning and then burial. One particular reptile that shows this is the Ichthyosaurus. From what we can understand, water was her home for everything in life, even giving birth to live young. This well designed creature may even help us trust the Word of God when it comes to the history of the Flood. In our Mobile Museum of Earth History we exhibit a research replica of an ichthyosaur called Stenopterygius quadriscissus . She is from Holzmaden, Germany and is one example of hundreds that have been found in the area. The reason we can so confidently state this fossil is a “her,” when we rarely know for sure about fossil animals, is because she is pregnant. She has three babies present with her remains: one under her tail, one in or near the birth canal, and one still inside. Our fossil is in situ, which means the fossil remains in the rock matrix it was buried in. So, the presence of momma and babies are how they were buried and not articulated in some manner after excavation. This is important to show the rapid, watery burial that must have taken place to lock this scene in the fossil record. The Flood trapped organisms all over the world in different life positions. Sometimes the fossils left behind have shown eating, hunting, sleeping, swimming, nesting, or drowning. When it comes to ichthyosaurs around the planet, there is a significant number of females that seem to be pregnant. They have been found in the fossil record on at least four continents. A fair assumption would be that Ichthyosaurs had a certain time of year they mated and gave birth to young, much like sea turtles today that nest from late spring to late fall depending on the region around the world. So it should come as no surprise that we find pregnant ichthyosaurs all around the world as the Flood lasted an entire year. It would have buried the females that were pregnant near their location of habitat.  Evolutionists maintain that ichthyosaurs lived tens to hundreds of million years ago and each of the mothers found in the fossil record just died while giving birth. This is difficult to support in a millions magnitude time scale. That would mean every time a disaster happened, millions of years apart, the right conditions existed to quickly bury ichthyosaurs that just so happened to be pregnant. It just might take some “faith” to trust that “miracle” would happen over and over again through eons of time. Or you can have faith that the Word of God’s history is correct with a judgement of man’s sin bringing global devastation through the Flood during Noah’s 600th year of life. The Word of God is trustworthy, with even the fossil record showing us glimpses of historical evidence in support of our faith. I’m so thankful we don’t need blind faith to trust our salvation! Blessings.
Furnace

Our God Whom We Serve Is Able

By Ryan Cox • October 2, 2025
14 Nebuchadnezzar spoke, saying to them, “Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the gold image which I have set up? 15 …if you do not worship, you shall be cast immediately into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. And who is the god who will deliver you from my hands?” 16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego answered and said to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. 17 If that is the case, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king. 18 But if He does not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you have set up.” Daniel 3:14-18 In the 6th century BC, three young men stood up for their faith in the one true God, for which someone attempted to kill them. Today, in the 21st century AD, one young man was gunned down for his faith in the one true God. And sadly, Charlie Kirk is not the only one. According to The Esther Project, martyrdom for the cause of Christ is commonplace around the world ( theestherproject.com/statistics ). On average: 322 Christians are killed monthly. 214 churches or Christian properties are destroyed monthly. 772 forms of violence (beatings, kidnappings, etc.) against Christians are committed monthly. 100,000 to 160,000 Christians are killed annually in the 21st century. 1.093 million Christians were martyred between 2000 and 2010. And more than 70 million Christians are believed to have been martyred since the 1st century, with more than half killed in the 20th century alone under communist and fascist governments. And how should Christians respond? Peter wrote, “ if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but glorify God in this name ” (I Peter 4:16). Jesus took this a step further; He told us, “ …love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you ” (Matthew 5:44). Now, as Shawn Grant, minister at Kissimmee Christian Church, FL, preached on the Sunday following the assassination, th at may not be what you want to hear right now, but that is what Jesus has told us we must do. Why? So the world will see the difference Jesus makes! The night of and the days after the assassination, businesses did not have to board up their stores. Police and soldiers did not have to be deployed. There were no riots, no property damages, no police spat upon – only tears, prayers, and a witness to the world that Jesus is the answer. So noticeable is this to the world, there were more international press requests for the Charlie Kirk memorial service than are requested for Super Bowls. Within seven days of his death, Kirk’s ministry Turning Point USA had received over 54,000 campus chapter requests. And most importantly, scores of videos of young people considering or even deciding to give their lives to Jesus have been posted to social media platforms. 
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