The mistake

Some of the theories within the chapter of the Brilliant Mistake shed to light one of the great difficulties abut digging for truth . Often times it seems that Popular feelings of the time can prepare people to accept certain theories and philosophies as fact even if they are not. The brilliant mistake is such an example. It seems that Christianity has fallen out of vogue. Intellectual thoughts often seems to be stimulated by the opinion that something that has come before you is wrong. In this case this led to many theories questioning and throwing doubt in the face of the bible and in general Christianity. People had created the idea of a truth. They felt the bible was wrong and they set out to proove it. In many cases it didn't matter how strong the evidence. They strung together all the pieces of information they could gather and stated in a very intellectual way why they were right. They called the tabernacle a fake, and they referred to the writers of the bible as workers of "pious fraud." Perhaps they were right, and perhaps their theory is true. My argument is not that they are wrong but that they have their own angle and that it should be realized that the search for truth is often only the search for that person's personal spin on reality. The author of the bible had the very same faults. Upon the death of the king, and upon the defeat of Judah he was forced to realize that the truth that he had accepted was in fact false. He had to grapple in his mind for how his faith could still be valid when things had not gone as he had expected. The results were the changes that we find in a few verses spread throughout the first half of the bible. So it seems all of us must insure when looking at the past, present and future that we do not become too tangled in our versions of reality. For when we do it ceases to matter what is really true and all we care about is proving that we are right.