A friend from St. Stephen’s wondered what I thought of a web report
regarding the supposed discovery, in Greece, of an oversized human skeleton
that was being acclaimed as “proof” of passages in the Old Testament
which refer to “people of great size” called nephalim. In Genesis these
people are said to be the offspring of unions between the “sons of God” and fairest
among the “daughters of humans.” (Genesis
4:1-6).
Interesting… first I had heard of it. Like you, I am skeptical of “huge
discoveries” that the mainstream scientific community has not heard about, or
that “a conspiracy exists to suppress the information,” along the lines of the Da Vinci Code,etc.
I am embarrassed, not impressed, by claims to have “proven the truth of
the Bible” by discovering “the true remains of Noah’s ark” or things of that
sort. My faith is not affected one way or another by such things, or by statues
of the Virgin Mary that cry, or the “holy fire of Jerusalem” that spontaneously
combusts every year on the Saturday before Easter. If anything, the willful credulousity
of many believers is a deterrent to authentic
faith.
But then, I suppose my own
willingness to “suspend disbelief” with regard to the resurrection of Christ
seems like gullibility to those who see no graceful pattern to their lives, do
not think of trout and bass as gifts from an ingenious (if evasive) creator,
and do not see anything divinely comical about passing out little pieces of
bread and calling it “the body of Christ.”
Those fundamentalists and atheists are so deadly serious about
everything!
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