History As Not The History You Thought

Postmodernism and the Bible don't mix. I admit I have a poor understanding of postmodernism in general (and an even poorer understanding of theology), but if we take the grassroots of historiography, the fact is that any account by any historian will have some kind of bias due to the context and politics current in his time. Take the Bible as a historical account (and it is). It's made by many different authors, so a lot of people (atheists) assume that each author has a different viewpoint contaminated by his own motivations. Add that to the numerous amount of translations, the fact that the Bible was complied a few hundred/thousand years after all the books were written and people further assume that the numerous translations have lost their integrity that they think that the Bible is really inaccurate, speculative and just a bunch of stories that people made up to explain the world before science could do that properly.

I'm getting a bit infuriated by this. What's worse, I don't even know if I should be. As a Christian, I want to believe that the Bible is the truth, the ultimate truth and the very words which our God spoke. But I have recently started to question myself. Is my faith strong enough, that I able to prove that absolute truth from God? Does it even need proving? I can't just live in outright denial and ignore what these people have to say. But at the same time, I need to find out if to what extent those arguments are really not worth going into.

But as of recently, with my history unit concentrating on the historiography of architectural history, and focusing on diverse problems of religion, politics and culture, I am forced to consider the point. I've always wished that I was studying something that wasn't so polarised on such issues, like commerce, or engineering. But to some extent again, all university courses are in some way affected by this 'type of thinking'.

In the end, I think that in some way or form everyone or God wants me to prove that my faith needs more basis. Take away message for the week; there shouldn't be an arbitrary basis on why you believe in God. Saying that your parents took you to church, or your friends took you to youth camp and you 'believed' isn't good enough for my friends, myself and for you.