KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Humor
DURING THE EIGHTEENTH century, no skeptic delighted in finding humor at the expense of the Bible (and Christianity in general) more than Francois-Marie Arouet, better known as Voltaire...
His rejection of a personal God -- of God as Father -- is undoubtedly linked to the rejection of his own father. His confusion over his own lineage (he thought himself the illegitimate son of Rochebrune) and quarrels with his father led him to repudiate his father's name in favor of the pen name Voltaire.
Voltaire's running feud with the Bible led him to proclaim that within a hundred years, the Bible and Christianity would be virtually extinct and pass into history. It is more than humorous that a mere fifty years after his death, the Geneva Bible Society had made Voltaire's house their headquarters and were printing and distributing Bibles from there. (Paul C. Vitz)
KneEmail: "The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever" ( Isa. 40:8).