by Brian Thomas, Ph.D., and Tommy Lohman*

Have you ever been reading a story when it dawns on you that the author merely took a biblical account and reset it to modern times with renamed characters? This isn’t uncommon, but at times biblical figures get recast with personalities that are the opposite of their true characters. In these twists, good becomes evil, and evil is good.

Hot Springs National Park is located about an hour southwest of Little Rock in the folded Ouachita Mountains of central Arkansas. It is the second smallest national park in the United States at just under nine square miles.