Shaking the Faith

Pete over at Without Wax wrote a post a couple of days ago about a Time Magazine article about a man named David Jeselsohn who claims to have bought an ancient tablet announcing

… the raising of a messiah after three days in the grave. If true, this could mean that Jesus’ followers had access to a well-established paradigm when they decreed that Christ himself rose on the third day … (Full Article)

You can read Pete’s post on whether or not this article shook his faith here.

He brought up a good point. Even if the tablet is real, it shouldn’t shake our faith anyway. The disciples did have such a resource: The Old Testament. It’s full of third day references (I.E. Jonah in the belly of the whale for three days)(Which Jesus himself refers to in Matthew 12:40).

The article sort of got me thinking. There are a lot of things out there that are trying to shake our faith. The enemy continually throws them at us to try and knock us off balance. There are thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of articles, papers, documentaries, books, etc that have tried to prove that the Bible is a fake, or try and dispute some traditional belief. Like the whole Mary Magdalene and Jesus getting married and having kids thing. And countless others.

It’s everywhere. All this stuff that’s trying to get us to think twice about what we truly believe. Another thing is the whole Atheist Bandwagon as I like to call it (which can be a whole other post, and may be). ‘Oh it’s so cool to be atheist. You don’t have to listen to anyone.’

I’m going to stop there before I get myself into trouble d:

But yeah. I think we need to be careful of what we listen to/read when concerning religious things (especially on National Geographic) in a secular environment. I know I have had my doubts every now and then. But I try to remain strong in what I believe.