Word: testament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Noah Lammock (H. G. Wells) recognizes that mankind is on the ragged edge of annihilation, a puzzled, powerful old liberal turns up who says he is God Almighty. He is. He and Noah proceed to an entertaining exegesis of the Old Testament, the problem of evil, the possibilities of redemption, all of which is as fresh and stimulating as Captain Storm field's Visit to Heaven. Together they begin to plan an Ark in which all that is propitious for a new world may be saved. God will be allowed aboard, but there is no guarantee that He will...
...Lilies as we know them today are not native to the Holy Land. The lily of the Old Testament is usually the lotus or iris; the "lilies of the field" which outshone Solomon are anemones...
...Captain. Once a squash-courts pal of the Duke of Windsor, he is the possessor of a face which fancies somewhat "that little man with the mousetrap mouth," Jellicoe of Jutland, of a sympathetic, discreet presence somewhere between the bedside manner of a family doctor and the last-testament-drafting manner of a family lawyer, and of a high reputation for naval alertness...
Only in recent decades has it been believed that the "gentleness" of Jesus was a sufficient and final revelation of the character of God . . . in contradiction to an alleged God of Wrath in the Old Testament...
...Albert Ten Eyck Olmstead, professor of Oriental history at the University of Chicago. A decade ago he began writing a history of the Near East, found such disagreement among scholars over the origins of Christianity that he "was compelled to devote precious years to the investigation of the New Testament for myself." Historian Olmstead's findings made most of his Bib Lit colleagues sputter. They think the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke) give the truest picture of Christ's life, assign a much later date to St. John's Gospel. Dr. Olmstead said roundly that...