R.C. Sproul recommends again the novel he calls the greatest ever written, Moby Dick.
In a personal letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne upon completing this novel, Melville said, “I have written an evil book.” What is it about the book that Melville considered evil? I think the answer to that question lies in the meaning of the central symbolic character of the novel, Moby Dick, the great white whale.
I think Sproul is pretty much on the money. The conceptual distance between Whale as Evil and Whale as God is the realm of existential and theological doubt itself.