Anti-Christian College

Here's a good article about the blacklisting of Christians in the University setting, written by a college professor. Read it here. There's a also a brief report about an Italian atheist that is suing to prove that Jesus never existed. Good luck there, buddy; even he admits that if he won it would "be a miracle."

We were discussing skepticism at Bible Study the other night. It seems that the Biblical answer to world history and archaeology is almost always rejected out of hand as the wrong answer, often without even giving it a consideration. I can imagine the inner monologue of a secular scholar looking at some issue of ancient history: "Well, since I know the Bible is wrong, what do the facts point to as the next best option?"

Archaeology has never proven the Bible wrong. Never. But archaeologists have dismissed the Biblical account in dozens of places. They flat out reject it. In fact, they would laugh at you for believing the Biblical version of events.

Does evidence exist to support everything in the Bible? No, of course not. But absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Do you have to accept the possibility of miracles to read the Bible as is? Yes. And that can be frustrating because a miracle is a one time event that can't be tested scientifically, but that's the nature of history. There's a lot of unlikely, improbable events in history that nevertheless happened. In fact, recorded history is almost entirely made up of unusual and singular events. We generally don't write about trips to the grocery in history books.

If God does exist it is possible that he has interfered with history, despite the protests of scholars. If God has intervened, then the stories of the Bible are much more plausible. Considering the reliability of the texts themselves and proof that does exist, the skeptic requires a lot of blind faith.