Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Have faith?

Cari and I started to watch "Science of the Bible" on the National Geographic Channel.
The first episode last week was about the birth of Jesus. It's a very interesting program and we look forward to seeing more of it.

They are out to prove the stories in the bible with science. Some of the first episode they talked about the birth place of Jesus. We all picture this pretty manger with horses and sheep in their stables. The program tells us that people in that time did not keep animals in a separate building like the image we have created. In many towns, the people built split level homes and the animals were kept on the lower level. It is in a space like this that would be more likely.

They point out discrepancy in some of the gospel. They also point out in at least one instance, that history at that time was written for a purpose and not always completely accurate.

Not everything in the bible can be proven with science. That's why you have faith. You will not find a physical presence of God, but you have faith that God is there in the way that you believe.
If you can get the National Geographic channel, I recommend you try and watch this. I found it very interesting.

1 comment:

John said...

Yup. Using science to (dis)prove religion is like fishing using a hard drive. Won't work, and it'll just break the hard drive.