United in Christ

I had an interesting experience today with a fellow believer. We have some differences in our interpretation of the Bible, and were discussing it today. The differences were minor, and our discussion was good, but the interesting thing happened on our way home.

A man noticing the Bible in my hand decided it would be good to confront us both on the relativity of history. He wasn't really seeking to talk about the issues but rather just argue them. His main basic argument is that we can't really know what is historically accurate. He maintained that truths are relative, and he can only be sure of what is true to him. As such, if all interpretations are relative and that the Bible is just an interpretation that is relative and holds no historical significance as we cannot know if it is true. I asked him how we are to believe that his hypothesis is in fact true, because according to his theory, his theory itself is only relative to him and is thus impossible to know if it is true. I don't think he understood the fallacy of his argument and that it was a self-refuting idea, but it was an interesting conversation none the less. But this was still not the most interesting part of my day.

While the conversation was interesting, I think there was an even more interesting lesson that I learned from it all. The cool thing was, that even though my friend and I had previously been debating over smaller secondary biblical issues, we still remained united in the central understanding of who Jesus is and what he has done for us.