Critics tell us that the Bible is nothing more than ancient mythology, with a sometimes confusing moral message mixed in.  It is not based so much on historical fact as on the wishful folk tales of a much abused and abusing, ancient people.  It is perhaps a record of that peoples’ struggle to find meaning and purpose, but otherwise holds little value today.  It is certainly of no more value than any of the other ancient ‘sacred writings’, such as the Koran or the Hindu Bhagavad-Gita.  It is subjective, contradictory, - a fairy tale. 

Truth is under assault!  It stands the test of two major challenges: Science & Hyper Tolerance.  On the one hand science is fast overthrowing the ancient idols of external morality and superstition. Here is the claim.  This is the 21st century.  The old truth no longer applies.  There is nothing but the DNA. We are but a cosmic accident, products of nothing plus chance.  Therefore, we owe no allegiance outside ourselves. God is chance.  He is accident.  He is the Great Nothing.  God is dead.  We are free to remake ourselves in any image we want.  We are masters of our own souls.  From the other direction, a new all-tolerant spirituality tells us, ‘All truth is subjective’.  “Judge not!”, they intone, “All roads lead to the divine”.  ‘We all have our own truth”.  We are become our own gods!  

“Whenever you see a cloud rising out of the west, immediately you say, ‘A shower is coming’; and so it is. And when you see the south wind blow, you say, ‘There will be hot weather’; and there is. Hypocrites! You can discern the face of the sky and of the earth, but how is it you do not discern this time?” (Luke 12:54-56)