What Do YOU Think? Does Biblical Scholarship Change, Damage, or Destroy the Claims of Faith?

November 08, 2021 00:01:47
What Do YOU Think? Does Biblical Scholarship Change, Damage, or Destroy the Claims of Faith?
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What Do YOU Think? Does Biblical Scholarship Change, Damage, or Destroy the Claims of Faith?

Nov 08 2021 | 00:01:47

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Show Notes

I have talked a lot on the blog about my understanding of how biblical scholarship relates to Christian faith claims. Since the early 19th century critical scholars have dug deeply into the Bible and discovered discrepancies, contradictions, historical errors, geographical mistakes, anachronisms, and claims that make no sense in light of what we know about the world today from biology, geology, astronomy, physics, anthropology, and … and well the list goes on. Read by Petra Ortiz

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