A Scientific Conceit

This is the coolest story of the week. It's short. Go read it and come back. I'll wait.

`Scholars have said that there wasn't a Pool of Siloam and that John was using a religious conceit'' to illustrate a point, said New Testament scholar James H. Charlesworth of the Princeton Theological Seminary. ``Now we have found the Pool of Siloam . . . exactly where John said it was.''

A Gospel that was thought to be ``pure theology is now shown to be grounded in history,'' he said.

The last line is a bit of hyperbole, I think. There have been plenty of findings over the years to prove the truth and accuracy of the Bible, and as Christians, we don't really need these discoveries, because by faith we believed them already. (Well, most of us.) But it's still nice to see the "scholars" disproven while the Bible is proved accurate. By the way, I have no problem with scholars. The pursuit of knowledge is a good thing, and a Biblical principle to boot. But it's always good to remember that "scholars" are just people, and we should not blindly accept what they say simply because they've read a little more about it.