You and your significant other are vacationing in Syria (What? It could happen). And one day while strolling through the Syrian countryside you stumble into a cave, where you discover clay jars with ancient scrolls inside. You smuggle the jars back home, have the scrolls analyzed by a friend who specializes in such matters, and he tells you the scrolls date back to around 40 AD. He also tells you the scrolls contain information that scholars will use to argue against Christianity. Your friend estimates collectors would likely pay you over $300 million for these scrolls, but also warns their unveiling will be the news story of the decade, and magazines will run headlines like, “The Scrolls that Killed Christianity”. In reality nothing will change, Christianity will be as true as it always was, and people will continue to convert at the same rate before the scrolls went public. Scholars and unbelievers will just have a new, powerful way to argue against Christianity, and you will have $300 million. Confused, you talk to a couple of pastors and they urge you to sit on the scrolls. So, do you go public and sell the scrolls, or keep them in your basement?
