I’m confused about something. Maybe someone can ’splain me this.
See, I’m browsing through the inspirational brochure of the new Creation Museum in Kentucky. (Link goes to a PDF. I hereby offer up this warning to all those sinning webmasters who do not alert their readers to such slow-downloading, new-app-launching, linking perfidy.) And I am finding myself quite moved by suchness as:
Walk through the Garden of Eden. Introduce yourself to our chameleons. Examine bones, the clutch of eggs from a dinosaur, an exceptional fossil collection, and a mineral collection. Enter the Cave of Sorrows and see the horrific effects of the Fall of man.
Already I feel closer to the all-embracing warmth of religious faith. Who doesn’t long to visit the Cave of Sorrows?
But then there’s this:
[T]he purpose of the museum is three-fold. First, it acts as a rallying place, calling people back to the absolute truth of the Bible. It is a place of revival, a starting point for a new reformation. Second, it is a witnessing tool. There will be those who sneer, but some will be challenged to think, and still others may come to believe. And finally, it is a valuable, unprecedented resource for information and education, enabling us to always be ready to give an answer (a reasoned, logical defense) for the hope that is within us (1 Peter 3:15).
The impact of the brochure is such that I am ready to book a trip to Kentucky immediately so that I may learn to accept the absolute, literal truth of the Bible via the museum. So I go to the museum’s Web site, where I am startled to discover that the museum is open seven days a week!
Now, in my ongoing studies of the Bible and its literal, absolute truth, I have, of course, come across this:
Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it [is] holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth [any] work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. Six days may work be done; but in the seventh [is] the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth [any] work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. ( Exo. 31:14-15)
Granted, there is some confusion over whether Saturday or Sunday is the proper sabbath day, the proper day upon which one should be put to death for working, but clearly, it must be at least one of these two days.
So what I’m confused about is this: If I visit the Creation Museum on a Sunday, is it my duty as a believer in the absolute, literal truth of the Bible to determine which, if any, of the employees working at the museum on that day also worked the day before? And would it also be my duty to put those sabbath-defying employees to death myself, or is there a Putting to Death for Working on the Sabbath Department at the museum? The brochure is unclear, and I’m trying to be reasonable and logical about this.
Also, I am praying for the sinners at Media Bistro, who called the museum “a great place to visit if you wanted to take a look at $27 million dollars worth of crazy”; for the sodomite actor who portrays Adam in one of the videos at the museum; and for Alfred Russel Wallace, currently spending eternity in hellfire jabbing Charles Darwin in various orifices with hot pokers while Darwin does the same to him. I bet they’re sorry now.
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