I’m pretty sure that God didn’t plant dinosaur bones to test us. We find dinosaur bones because, well, there used to be dinosaurs. Duh.
If there is a Judeo-Christian god, and if Jesus was his son, for me, the biggest test of faith won’t come from dinosaur bones or the irritating inconsistencies between science and the Bible. It will come from people.
I’m not a Bible thumper by any means. I’m someone who is searching, and as part of that I’m reading through the New Testament. I started with Mark, read Luke, and am now partially through Matthew.
It’s hard to read the words attributed to Jesus without thinking of all the charlatans, cultists, and profiteers who have shouted out his name in the 2000 years since.
Like Fox Mulder, “I want to believe”. Of all the challenges to faith that I’ve found, the worst by far are humans.
How could anyone grow up with faith in a world filled with things like Scientology and the video shown below?
This is on my mind,because last night I read through the part of the Gospel of Matthew that has the following:
15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore by their fruits you will know them.
The world may be running out of oil and polar bears, but there seems to be an endless supply of false prophets
