How strong is your faith?

The advance of technology and science has allowed for great advances in archeology. Science has challenged and encouraged Christians about their faith throughout the centuries. But one thing remains clear, science does not determine faith. God does (Ephesians 2:8).

During the 18th century, science was held in high regard over spiritual matters. This period came be known as the Enlightenment. Out of the Enlightenment, a method called Historical Criticism emerged. As its name suggests, historical criticists used purely scientific methods in explaining, proving and disproving biblical documents. But because advances in science and archeology were not sufficient in explaining much of the bible, people began to distrust its validity. Why? It's because their only basis for believing the bible was whether science could verify it or not.

We see this happening even today with The God Delusion and other atheistic writings.

I was reading an article in the Toronto Star. Basically, it reports that a documentary filmmaker has found the lost tomb of Jesus. Apparently, he has Jesus' bones, and scientists at Lakewood University have tested it. He also claims that Jesus married Mary, and their child was actually Jude.

While reading this article, I realized that someone out there must be thinking "Maybe Jesus isn't God?" I realized that there may be some people out there that are swayed by the mere rumour that Jesus was not divine.

I would encourage you to not fall into this trap.

I am not a scientist. This is not a refutation of the documentary. I can only say, as a biblical scholar, that history is riddled with confusions about our faith. So in the midst of this, where is your faith? How strong is your faith?