"Storyteller" as an Attribute of God

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The attributes of God, or the characteristics that make God God, are a primary study in theology, given that theology is literally the study of God. And Christian theology, which is the doctrine of God that the Lord Jesus Christ, the God-Man Himself (John 1:1-18), gave us, is synonymous with Biblical theology, the Bible being the Word of God (and therefore, the Word of Christ) (John 10:35).

So, if we want to know the attributes of God according to God Himself, we must know and believe God's revelation of Himself in Scripture. And we see that God, through the Bible, tells us various stories. And not merely fictional illustrations, like Jesus's parables in the Gospels, but historical narratives, as well as narratives of the future works of God. So, since God reveals Himself in His own Word as One who tells stories, we can say that "storyteller" is one of God's attributes.

This fact has exciting implications! One, God, being the Perfect Being (and therefore Perfection itself), is the Model of perfect storytelling. So, He is the Well from which the waters of storytelling skills are drawn. I think (emphasis on "think") then that a, if not the, way to develop storytelling skill is to, by faith, meditate on God as He tells stories in Scripture. Perhaps, as Christians develop Christlike moral character by meditating on Christ in His Word (2 Corinthians 3:18), Christians can develop godly storytelling skills by, by faith, meditating on the storytelling of God. Second, there is a tradition of Christian storytelling that can be identified and subsequently analyzed. The words of Christian storytellers (again, whether they told nonfiction or fiction stories) can be analyzed to see how they used Biblical narrative principles to craft God-glorifying stories. Third, the history of good stories ("good" by Biblical narrative standards) written by unbelievers can be identified and analyzed in light of the fact that every good gift comes from God (James 1:17) and therefore that good qualities, even in the products that the unsaved produce, come from God, making Him the One worthy of all the credit. There are undoubtedly many more possible implications and applications of this insight, but these are the ones I've decided to list and describe in this post.

May God use this to inspire many Christians to be Christian storytellers and glorify Him through a flood of well-written stories!