Da Gullible vs. Da Skeptic

I tell you what - I can not believe what people are willing to believe. Seriously. I heard today that 1/3 (that is, one-third) of all Albertans believe that The Da Vinci Code (a novel) is actually true. If that is true, then surely we have indeed arrived in The Twilight Zone. I also heard today that a large chunk of a satellite downlink was devoted to an e-mail from a man who said he is a Christian and that the book "confused" him.

I don't understand where the confusion comes from. I honestly don't. But now, though I don't believe the Da Vinci code is a concern, I do believe that gullibility and the lack of a healthy skepticism, among Christians and non-Christians alike, is definitely a concern.

Galatians 1:6-7, written nearly 2000 years ago, warns of believing anything other than the Good News that was shared with you: "I am shocked that you are turning away so soon from God, who in his love and mercy called you to share the eternal life he gives through Christ. You are already following a different way that pretends to be the Good News but is not the Good News at all. You are being fooled by those who twist and change the truth concerning Christ."

I was so very strongly called to Christ and subsequently to God's teaching in the Bible, that I can't imagine adopting as truth something written as a novel today. I was hugely skeptical and disbelieving of God for 42 years. I can't imagine adopting a 5-year old novel, that was researched for 1 year as the truth about God. Skepticism, even about God, is understandable to me. It seems to me that God is sometimes glorified when he shows how our skepticism about Him is flawed. He is glorified when a skeptic brings an issue to Him and ends up surprised at how God can overcome anything. Skepticism is not necessarily unhealthy. There is alot of information that comes our way every day, and if we don't have a healthy dose of skepticism, well, we could spend a lot of time like a blade of grass in the wind, blowing to and fro.

to be continued.