The Soon Collection by Jerry B. Jenkins

Author:Jerry B. Jenkins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FICTION / Christian / Futuristic, FICTION / Religious
ISBN: 9781496421029
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2016-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

11

JAE FOUND STRAIGHT MADDENINGLY CIRCUMSPECT on the phone that evening. She couldn’t tell if he was upset because she had ignored his advice and wishes about her move to Washington—and surely he and Paul had discussed the fact that Paul didn’t want her to go either—or if he simply thought she was calling him too much. After all, he was also coming for dinner Thursday night.

The kids were down and she had asked if he had some time. Though he said he did, his answers were short and noncommittal, almost curt. If she didn’t know better, she’d have wondered if he had something to hide. Was it possible he actually worried that she would get the wrong impression because he seemed to know a thing or two about the Bible? Even if she thought he knew too much to be a loyal atheist, it wasn’t as if she would have him investigated. Of course, with her connections, she could. She certainly, however, did not view Straight as a threat to the USSA.

She told him what she had been listening to and asked whether he knew if the Bible was considered a nonfiction historical record.

“I thought we were going to discuss this Thursday night,” he said.

“Well, we are, but that’s just been bugging me all day. What do you think?”

“I don’t know what I think. Are you asking if I believe it’s true, or . . . ?”

“I’m asking if you know whether people who are believers see the Bible as truth or just some sort of allegorical guideline or something. Because it’s sure different than what I expected.”

“What had you expected?”

He’s stalling! “Well, I don’t know, sir. I guess I always thought the Bible was full of legends and poetry and psalms, hymns, that kind of thing.”

“I don’t think there are hymns, outside the Psalms, of course.”

“And so?”

“Well, I don’t see how I can speak for what other people think. Who knows whether they took it literally or figuratively?”

Jae was actually growing irritated with him. She had assumed he would have been the type of professor she would have enjoyed. Until this. Jae tried her postulation on him that if it were not true, it shouldn’t have stood the test of time that it did. “I mean, in just the few chapters I’ve listened to, there’s some pretty bizarre stuff. Unless there’s some deeper meaning, people either had to buy this stuff whole or pass it off as a joke.”

“They didn’t seem to do that, if history is a barometer.”

“My point exactly, Straight. So this is a true, historical record.”

“I can’t decide that for you.”

“But it was for them?”

“For whom?”

“For believers!”

“Well,” he said, “I think you just answered your own question.”

Jae was tempted to ask him flat out what he personally believed. Why else would he be so elusive? She was off the phone with him much more quickly than she had expected, but she got the impression he was relieved when they were through. She hadn’t even followed through on broaching the subject of mysterious cars and people in the neighborhood.

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