Unicorns

Submitted by Alan Marsden on Tue, 25/03/2025 - 00:00

Unicorns are not real. Horses with a single horn are fantastical creatures from ancient mythologies, the product of fertile, human imaginations. A horse with a horn! Whatever next?!

What if I said that I believe in a leopard-moose-camel with an eight-foot neck? This bizarre creature is known as a giraffe. Giraffes, of course, are real, and may be inspected on African plains or European zoos while one-horned-horses are strictly make-believe. So reality is more fantastical than fantasy.

Whatever fairytales and movies depict regarding elves, dwarves, monsters and dragons, the actual world of divine reality is more vivacious, complex and vibrant. Angelic armies, plotting demons, cherubic warriors, fiery thrones, gigantic angels, darkest dungeons, evil princes and bottomless pits: all of these are more real and authentic than the tamer versions which novelists like Lewis, Rowling and Tolkien are able to conjure. And we are playing our part in this epic tale of good vs. evil, light vs. darkness, truth vs. falsehood.

God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows. Numbers 24:8

Top image by sabinja from Pixabay

Second mage by Markus Kammermann from Pixabay