Goodreads asked Charles Martin:

How do you get inspired to write?

Charles Martin Reading. And more reading. I spend a great deal of time reading both the Bible, and myths from around the world. As a result, I come across bizarre and unusual parallels and, if they turn out to be global myths, I tend to run with it. But what really drives me, more than anything else, is to let people know that believing the Bible isn't a matter of intellectual laziness, but quite the opposite. When we take into account the global nature of Flood stories, Tower of Babel stories, stories of the Nephilim, even the striking parallels between different creation stories, it's actually much more difficult - intellectually - to dismiss the Bible, because all "refutations" have serious shortcomings. I want people to understand that the believing the Bible IS based on faith, but it is not based on BLIND faith.

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