Skip to main content

Talk Talk

Have you ever played or heard of the game Telephone? You know, the game where you start at one end of the line and tell someone a secret in their ear passing the secret from person to person until you get to the end and see if the original message made it all the way down. I recently got hooked on a podcast called, "Serial." Apparently I was the last one on that train, but got so enthralled in the story. In 1999, a high school boy is accused and sentenced to life for murdering his ex-girlfriend. The podcast is a series of reports on the broadcaster's findings after all these years. She goes through evidence and interviews many of the key players from that time. She asks the witnesses to remember a key point in time fifteen years ago. It's like a really good game of telephone. One person says they were with someone else in that twenty minute time stamp while another completely rebukes their story and remembers a totally different scenario. Could you remember what you were doing around 2:30pm exactly fifteen years ago? I can't remember what I had for breakfast let alone something that happened at an exact time fifteen years ago.

Listening to Serial got me to thinking about how easily we jumble stories. Countless stories are passed from generation to generation. It's how our cultures survive and legacies live on. Some stories get tweaked along the way covering up scandal or erasing embarrassing moments. We are currently going through a study at church entitled "Explore God" (you can look at exploregod.com for more info). This past weekend our pastor preached about the proof of God's existence. This sermon led to an incredible conversation between Scott and I. He was an agnostic when I met him; one of those types that needed the evidence to prove God's existence. I asked him to tell me how he'd explain God to his earlier self and then wondered how I would explain God if I was asked.

I got to thinking about the Bible. I think we can all agree that the Bible is a compilations of people's stories; people's accounts of their faith and experiences with God throughout history. Many rebuke the Word claiming it to be people's opinions or a compilation of crazy made up situations to make people feel better like there is something greater out there. Here's where the game of Telephone comes into play for me. If the Bible is just a compilation of people's stories from one generation to the next and the hand of God is not present in the Word and what gets out there, than why haven't the stories changed? You would think there would be some discrepancy in individual stories as time wore on. Like, why didn't people try to cover up King David's sin with Bathsheba? That was a huge scandal. He had her husband murdered so the affair wouldn't get found out for goodness sakes. If the Bible is just an interesting read, why not cover up one of the greatest mistakes? We do it today; hide our scandals that is.

I can list so many instances in which it would be far greater for the Christian faith to leave this or that out, yet it all remains: the good fluffy stuff right alongside the dark and ugly. The Bible is fully translated into 531 languages while 2,883 languages have at least a portion of the Script. One would think that someone somewhere would mess up and leave something out or, perhaps, make a story sound a little better tweaking it a little here or there. But no. The Bible has never changed even after all these years. It's the same today as if we were walking alongside Moses in the desert. The Word remains.

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." John 1:1

My argument to the agnostic, unbeliever, questioner, doubter, atheist, believer of a different faith is that the Bible never changes because the Bible is the Word and the Word is God. The words on the pages of Scripture are necessary to be told and heard by all generations because they are God-breathed; life-giving. You cannot leave one detail out because then you are leaving out a piece of God. The Word never changes because God doesn't change. God exists because the Word has held true all these years later. Angie Smith write, "...the Bible is a complete library, inspired by God, telling the story of His revealing Himself to us over 2,500 years."

So, when you question, doubt, or are looking for evidence, look to the Scriptures. They are never changing.

Love & Blessings,
Meg

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Holy Holy

I can't stop singing, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty." Scott and I went to the "big" ultrasound today where we tested to see if our baby had Down's, one of the Trisomy disorders, or any neural tube defects. I must admit the palms were a little sweaty and the heart was racing a bit. As surreal as this pregnancy is, I don't want anything to be wrong with this precious life inside of me. Well, holy is right. The Lord is not just good; He is awesome! Our little baby instantly began moving and grooving for us showing off fingers and toes and a great heart beat! Even though I am on my third, watching the miracle of life on that screen NEVER gets old! It truly blows my mind every time I get to see our precious angels developing inside of me! The scan came out wonderfully. We got all positives on all the scans the doctor (who was absolutely INCREDIBLE) could do. Now we just wait for some blood work to confirm that everything is okay with our little boy. ...

Tuesday Toddler Tales~A Mother's Worst Nightmare

I lost Jack. Don't worry, he has been found but for the longest I'd say 8 minutes of my life he was gone. I was at the mall with two girlfriends and their kiddos. We were all having lunch at the food court when I stepped away to get some ketchup. Jack stayed behind with his friends. I was gone for maybe a minute and a half or so. When I came back he was gone. His chair was pushed in and empty. I began to panic. One friend stayed behind with all the other kids while my other friend and I darted off in oposite directions. Others began to notice our panic and jumped in the search with us. I saw nothing in my direction, not even shoppers. I turned around and started the other way. I got to the carousel where I thought he'd be and he wasn't. At this point it took everything in my power not to faint. I felt like everything around me was spinning. I was so overwhelmed with where to look. I just kept running, frantically asking people if they saw a little blond-haired boy with ...

Notoriety

Teenage Mother A donkey owner Simon of Cyrene Who are these people? I am sure you can figure out the first one: Mary the mother of Jesus. Who are the others and what do all three of these people have in common? They all did extraordinary things but, for the most part, went unseen. Do you ever feel unseen? Undervalued? I do. I try not to get caught up in that space, but I find myself there too often. While Mary is infamous today, she wasn't when she brought the King into this world. She was a teenager who gave birth in a barn. She was an outcast who was pregnant but not married. She told of an unbelievable story involving an angel, a Spirit, and a Savior who was going to save the world. Could you even imagine? It's easy for us to be in awe of Mary. We know the whole story. She didn't. And neither did the people around her. She had to live it. To top it all off, she had to watch her beloved son die a gruesome death. Talk about feeling unseen and undervalued. She faithfu...