Living in the World
Diggin' Up Bones

Back in 1986 a new Country Music artist burst on the scene. He was and is Randy Travis who just won another Grammy for his album Glory Train. On his debut album Storms of Life he had a tune called "Diggin' Up Bones". The chorus was as follows:

I'm a diggin up bones
Exhuming things that's better left alone
I'm resurrecting memories of a love that's dead and gone
Well tonight I'm sittin alone diggin up bones

When I heard of the Jesus Tomb spectacle by James Cameron of Titanic fame, I could not but help think of that song. Some reports say the documentary producers and writers are not trying to cast aspesrions on Christianity! How absurd. Christians believe Jesus rose from the dead and ascended into heaven where He sits at the right hand of God the Father. He can't be in both places at one time. For a good preliminary response to Cameron and his experts and to continue to monitor this see New Testament scholar Ben Witherington's blog [26 and 28 Feb entries] http://benwitherington.blogspot.com

This is another attack on the Christian faith. It should not surprise us. The media fawns all over this stuff because it is sensational. The production is to air on 4 March with a book just released. Needless to say, much more ink will be spilled on this subject. The protagonists are taking an old subject and appealing to the MBA in all of us with statistics and the CSI mania that has its grip on TV viewers with DNA testing.

Like the Da Vinci Code, there will be $$ to be made. But, in the long run its hokum will be exposed as unbelief...diggin' up bones that are best left alone and showing that the love of God is dead and gone in the skeptics...if it ever existed at all.