OFF THE MAP
The following was written in 1981 by Rev. Ken Miller, then Presbytery Executive for Seattle Presbytery (now retired): Recently I was captured by a picture vividly presented in a few pages of Harold Lamb’s life of Alexander the Great. He describes the consternation which came upon the Greek army as it followed Alexander across Asia Minor when they discovered they had marched clear off the map. The only maps they had showed only a portion of Asia Minor. The rest was a blank space and they filled it in as they went along. Their maps told them where they had been and not where they were going. Our world has marched off many maps and new ones must be drawn. We are getting a new map of the sky from Explorer II. There is a new heaven and a new earth. It makes a difference not only in astronomy, but in thinking about our place in God’s cosmos. Another illustration is…
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