THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING?

[handmaiden]

So, I was witnessing to someone close to me and I really felt as though I ha d made an impact.

Then, she turns around and says that expecting Jesus to return to earth was like England waiting for King Arthur to return with Excaliber to sit on the British throne!

That was so mean and hurtful after all the time and energy that I had put into explaining about Jesus.

Naturally, I know she is wrong. And I could have pulled out many verses to disprove her silly assertion, but I had been reciting the Word of God with such vigor that I was a little tired and she caught me off guard.

What I want to know is, is there an official LBC position regarding all the Arthurian stuff?

Many people insist that it is all a myth. They say things like that about the Bible, too. Others say there are a few little kernels of historic truth layered with lots of elaborations.

I do know the the British Isles were once a hot-bed of paganism what with their Stonehenges and all that. And sometime during the Roman occupation, the Word of God was preached there. After all, God needed to set things up so the King James Bible could be commissioned there.

Arthur supposedly was steeped in all that pagan propaganda but then turned to Christianity. (That much is very easy to believe and visualize.)

Still, there is so much that I am uncertain regarding.

Can someone guide me so that I can decide whether to make Arthur an object lesson in my fight for Christ?

Ponderingly Yours,

Handmaiden

[Jo Freddie]

Re: THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING?

So you were going on about a mythical person returning to Earth and she compared it to another mythical person returning, mmm how very mean of her.

I mean Arthur is a mythical person whose story has been retold and embellished over time and Jesus is... Oh yes exactly the same.

Anyway here is a clip about the more entertaining of those two myths.

[Ezekiel Bathfire]

Re: THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING?

[...]What I want to know is, is there an official LBC position regarding all the Arthurian stuff?[...] Handmaiden

As I understand it, Arthur was around well after Jesus died temporarily on The Cross at Calvary and is therefore a simple story or folk-tale invented by the English Tourist Board to cheat people out of the cash they should be tithing.

Was it not Paul who wrote to Titus,

"Ti:1:14: Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.)"?

And was there never better advice than to ignore stupid tales made up to entertain or frighten children?

Now it may be that King Arthur was Jewish or may be not - it doesn't matter, what matters is that you see through these ludicrous copies and parodies of The True Story of Creation and Salvation as told and written down by people who were inspired by God.

PS, ignore that Pastafarian idiot, I suspect his diet has warped his mind.