Beyond the Walls of the World: What Makes the Gospel the Greatest Story Ever?

We feel it when we hear a tragic news story or sit in the quiet of our restless thoughts. We sense it when we watch a hero fall in a movie or hear the final note of a song that stirs us in ways we can’t explain. It’s a strange, persistent ache—the sense that the world is not as it should be and that we’re caught in the middle of something that’s both glorious and broken.

Man has tried to explain this ache in a thousand ways. Philosophers have turned it into a question of meaning. Historians look for patterns to make sense of the chaos. Psychologists call it the longing for transcendence .

But what if the mysterious longing is not mere trickery of the mind, or some stray spark flung by nature’s indifferent hand? What if it’s not a hollow echo of human imagination but a waymark, a whisper from beyond the walls of the world?

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