History, Realism, and the Truth

I was learning today of the continual struggles that survivor Jews had to endure after the Holocaust. Many had to go to court in order to get something back for all that theyve lost. And the process goes that you need to give a testimony of your experience, but many times, their testimonies were marked false, or discredited because of a slight error in their recalling. So much of their credibility is based upon history and pictures, etc etc…And its a mystery still how we can comprehend, let alone prove such an absurd catastrophic event. History itself is slippery ground as to who writes history? the winners?

How do you prove such events.

 

And in class, my brain clicked, and i thought of Christianity. I thought of how indeed crazy it looks for believers of this faith to proclaim, and even prove the truth, the realism, and existence of this God, this faith. And in a funny way, Christians give testimonies as an account of this faith, this gospel message. If we compare it to these holocaust survivors, we often will find the same result.

that is, how do you prove that these things you say are real, are true, is the truth?

But at the same time… how do you prove or make sense of something that doesnt make sense, that is beyond human understanding? our understanding will never do it justice.

My teacher also mentioned the rising of Holocaust “theme parks”, and the effects popular representation has upon the holocaust. what she is basically trying to say is how it waters down and almost degrades the level of value here.

And then i think about the Christian theme park in the documentary Religulous.

and then the rest of the consumer, business Christian market.

I wonder what that… does to the gospel, cos i hope the water that waters it down is holy water.

I guess at this point of my life, if someone was to ask me, how do you prove your God exist? how do you prove Christianity is real?

i would say, i dont know, but i do know, if i can make simple sense of the God of this universe, then this God may not be the same God that is above this complex confusing world.

I’m reminded that a story in our times, is usually considered fiction. Theres no credibility to factuality there.

But i believe there is indeed truth in the story.

 

if history can be rewritten, altered, fabricated, photos photoshopped, videos edited, sound bytes altered, then perhaps the only truth there is in the world is that somethings are beyond understanding.

and perhaps the things i don’t understand, i understand, because i understand they cant be understood.

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