Literature often glorifies and even promotes maladjustments to life. Literature frequently offers an escape from reality and is therefore an irresponsible use of life. Christianity seeks to confront reality, not escape it. Literature teaches people that telling lies is okay if you are a writer. Literature is often written by people of questionable character and therefore encourages the rejection of Christian values.
Literature helps refine our verbal skills which can greatly enhance our sharing of the gospel.
The parables of Jesus, the Sermon on the Mount, and many of his other teachings are forms of imaginative literature that depend on ambiguity, analogy, overstatement, symbolism, and drama to achieve their purposes. Vicarious learning about failures or tragedies is educational and is far safer than living them. Furthermore, reading literature helps us identify with a wide variety of people and experiences. The Bible is a superb piece of literature because of its wide variety of forms and because of its unflinching honesty about human failings in the light of God's redemptive work. Exercising our creativity, in reading or writing, is a reflection of the imago Dei in us.