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Here is what might be an uncomfortable question for some of us and an interesting and maybe even helpful and surprisingly honest question.

When it comes to knowing if there is a God and if there is a God what God is like and when it comes to trying to figure out who God likes,

does it really come down to the Bible, tells us so or any other religious literature tells us so.

I mean, we're modern people, rational people, are we really expected to believe what we believe or believe anything based on a collection of ancient manuscripts written by potentially dozens of men only who didn't even know each other over the course of hundreds and hundreds of years in a world without science in the way that we think of modern science.

And in a world where everybody believed in the gods or some kind of God, I mean, let's just be honest, right, weren't they just making stuff up?

I mean, weren't they just guessing, should we really be surprised that modern people, it seems more and more are kind of dismissing faith in general or deconstructing their faith, terminology that we use now,

and ask really hard questions or what seem to be hard questions about faith and realize we don't really have answers.

And it's not that we're sure that we're right that religion is wrong but because we're not sure that religion is right, we just kind of step back and it's like I'm just, I'm not sure about that anymore.

I mean, should we be surprised more and more people are doing that or to make it personal, should we be surprised that perhaps that's where you are or are you surprised that that's where you are?

That maybe you're in the process of walking away or you just have so many questions you're starting to lean away or maybe you're listening or watching today and honestly nobody in your family knows this yet, but you have your hand on the doorknob.

I mean, you're about to step away and outside of faith and you're not sure how your family is going to respond, your friends are going to respond, maybe even your employer is going to respond, but you're just kind of leaning that way.

And if, you know, all there is to this is the Bible tells us so then we shouldn't be surprised and you should be honest with yourself.

I mean, if in fact the Christian faith balances precariously on the edge of ancient declarations of superstitious men, well then why not?

Why not?

But as it turns out, Christians are not expected to believe what we believe based on a collection of ancient manuscripts written by men who never met each other over the course of hundreds of years in a time when everybody was superstitious and everybody believed in the gods and there was no modern science.

The foundation of our faith and we talk about this a lot here, the foundation of our faith is far more substantial than that.

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