The Bible Story - Volume I - Herbert W Armstrong - 1961

Herbert W Armstrong

Never has there been a Bible story book like this. That is not a rash statement indulging in superlatives. It is the truth. I would like to explain the reason. For years, in my ministry, I felt an overpowering sense of responsibility, mingled with a feeling of inadequacy, for getting the proper teaching to children. It was a frustrating consciousness, for my time was so completely filled in the ministry to adults. I picked up many of the run-of-the-mill type of Bible stories for children. They failed utterly to solve the problem. I could not endorse or press into use anyone of them. They seemed to have only one objective-to compete with exciting fiction of violence which youngsters heard on radio, later on television, and read in cheap novels or comic books. They consisted of dramatized blood-and-thunder stories of certain Biblical incidents. The murder of Abel by his brother, Cain; the cataclysm of the flood; young David killing the giant Goliath; the seducing of strong-man Samson; Daniel in the lions' den; all these disconnected stories, shorn of their real meaning, degraded the Bible in plastic young minds to the level of nursery myths like Jack killing the giant by cutting down the beans talk. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library