Helen Reddy: "Angie Baby"

This was the follow-up song to "I Am Woman" which became a worldwide hit in 1972. Though this didn't chart as high, it still is a great fantasy-story song. Hear it here:

To the unbelieving world, the Bible is akin to fantasy. Historical events like the worldwide flood and the resurrection of Christ seem unbelievable. But God does things which the natural person can't credit.

The ten plagues of Egypt is just one example. I recall a scientist on a CBC science show claiming that each plague was a natural progression from the previous one.

This argument falls apart when the plague of darkness came upon Egypt. Those folks were used to sand storms but this was total blackness, as Exodus 10:21 (Bible in Basic English) shows. "And the Lord said to Moses, 'Let your hand be stretched out to heaven, and all the land of Egypt will be dark, so that men will be feeling their way about in the dark.' And when Moses' hand was stretched out, dark night came over all the land of Egypt for three days;"

Neither can supposedly-educated folks explain how the sun stood still in Joshua 10:12 and 13 (BBE). "It was on the day when the Lord gave up the Amorites into the hands of the children of Israel that Joshua said to the Lord, before the eyes of Israel, 'Sun, be at rest over Gibeon; and you, O moon, in the valley of Aijalon.' And the sun was at rest and the moon kept its place till the nation had given punishment to their attackers. (Is it not recorded in the book of Jashar?) So the sun kept its place in the middle of the heavens, and was waiting, and did not go down, for the space of a day."

Doubters also claim that the apostles made up the stories about Christ. But Peter wrote in 2 Peter 1:16 and 17 (BBE), "For when we gave you news of the power and the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, our teaching was not based on stories put together by art, but we were eye-witnesses of his glory. For God the Father gave him honour and glory, when such a voice came to him out of the great glory, saying, 'This is my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased.'"

If our hoped-for return of Jesus hasn't happened by Monday, I hope to feature a song about coming of age and its difficulties.