Eat This Post

I read: 2 Timothy

"You're going to find that there will be times when people will have no stomach for solid teaching, but will fill up on spiritual junk food--catchy opinions that tickle their fancy. They'll turn their backs on truth and chase mirages. But you--keep your eye on what you're doing; accept the hard times along with the good; keep the Message alive; do a thorough job as God's servant."

2000 years later and nothing has changed. Welcome our new spiritual junk food, a phenomenally selling book and a movie that will be out before too long. Yep, The Da Vinci Code. Normally I welcome stuff like this, stuff that challenges the Christian status quo, that invites discussion. Not this book. All I've got to say is this: if you're going to write a book of fiction, write a book of fiction. Don't label it as truth on the first page when throughout there are factual errors in every area, faulty logic, and ill-obtained conclusions. And then there's that Gospel of Judas thing going on too. It never ceases to amaze me that people are willing to go anywhere to learn about "Christianity" except the three places that make sense: Christians, the Bible, and church.

Concurrent with all this spiritual junk food, however, is solid teaching. It's out there to be chewed, swallowed, and digested as Sir Franic Bacon would advocate. Knowledge of the spiritual junk food is beneficial in many ways, but it's even more important that we commit to learning and staying on top of the solid teachings that are all around.