Story. What's Yours?

What if the Bible is all a story?  Would it change how you act?  I believe that the way Jesus lived and how He treated others was a great way of living to emulate.   It shouldn't matter.  But it does for many people.  If heaven is the only reason you are good, I'd check your motives.  I'd love if all people could be kind to one another just because it's the right thing to do.

Back to story.  I've been watching the show "Arrow".  It almost lost me in season 4.  But quickly brought me back in as long as avoided paying close attention to all the quirky fight scenes.  The only character I really can connect to is Oliver Queen.  Imagine that.   He's overcoming all the darkness of things in his past.  Trying to find hope for the future.  I often wonder if everything in the show when he needs to be the Green Arrow is a narrative for what's going on in the battle of his mind.  That who Oliver is outside of the Green Arrow is the real story, all the scenes in which he is the Green Arrow takes place inside his mind.  I'm sure that's not what the writers had in mind.  But it would make a great story.

Oliver Queen said in one of the final episodes of Season 4 that the reason he often blames himself for things is because it at least gives him a reason for why things happened.  He didn't take credit for the good things nearly as much as he took responsibility for all the bad things that happened.

So many times we need to find a reason for things that happen.  We like to have an answer.  Sometimes there isn't one.  Sometimes things just happen.  We do our best and whatever happens happens.

This little factoid just blew my mind.
I might right about this tomorrow. 

Anyway, back to story. A good story is something we can connect with.  There are so many movies and tv shows out there right now with good guys and bad guys. Why?  Probably because so many of us struggle with an inner voice bad guy and watching the good guys win gives us a little hope that we can win too.

The concept of a good story has been really fascinating to me as of lately.  I think the Bible tells a remarkable story.  Almost too good of a story.  The good guys win in the end.  Just like every other good story out there.  So either all of history used the bible as an example of what makes a good story, or a good story has been implanted in our brains for as long as we can remember.  Did the writers of the bible need to motivate others to press on and let the goodness win?  Did they know what elements made a great story?  Was it a true story? Or simply based on a true story?  Does it matter?

Fight for what you believe to be good.