So today I was watching some random CBS documentary on the Ancient Israelites. They basically said that most the Old Testament is a lie. None of it ever happened. They said a lot of stuff that honestly I've never heard before in my life. It was interesting but I'm not so sure that any of it is true. I really thought I could watch it all and not have any of what it was saying get into my head. But if it's true, that David, Abraham and all of them never really existed, then it seems that everything we believe would fall through. It really started worrying me. But you know? I know that's not true. In fact I've heard more evidence that would prove absolutely contrary to what CBS was saying. Even if there isn't just the stuff they were saying didn't fit the Bible anyways. One example is that they said that actual solid Judaism wasn't around for a long time because most Israelites also served the gods of the pantheon. While this might be true, I'm pretty sure that that specific issue was addressed all over in the Bible and not some new revelation. Judaism existed before that, the Israelites just messed up in serving other gods.There were other weird exegitical flaws in the documentary and overall I highly doubt anyone can gather real credit to it.
Later I was reading in the book of Numbers. In Numbers 25 the Israelites decide that it'd be fun to mess around with some Midianite women. They sacrifice to their gods and slept with them. They totally betrayed everything that God had told them to do. God gets mad and sends a plague that kills half them off until the Priest does something to deflect God's wrath. Later, in chapter 31, the Israelites are sent in to kill all the Midianites. Guess what they do? They save the women. Of course. They saved the thing that was hurting them the most in that moment.
So, this made me think. How many times do we hold onto things that hurt us. For example, I kept watching that documentary even though it was pouring lies into my mind. At the time I found it interesting but in reality, it was harming me because it began to make me question everything I believed. I guess, we all as Christians need to learn to separate good things and bad things. We need to learn to live in the good things and get rid of the bad things. We need to keep the pure things but all the impure things that aren't of God we need to shove out of our lives, just like the Israelites needed to get rid of the Midianite women.
