His point, and that of C.S. Lewis (also pointed out in a book titled Eternity
in Their Hearts by Don Richardson), is that the One True Myth/story has been
communicated to all people, that those "earliest storytellers" already had an
inherent knowledge of the truth "built in." They were not just "one stop on the
road to Christian perfection" by any means (you are the one who has assigned
that view), but rather one cultural viewpoint that perhaps did not perceive the
whole -- remember the story of the blind men and the
elephant?
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"Gandalf! I thought you were dead! Is everything sad going to come untrue?"
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"And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten."
"And I will raise him up in the last day."
