It is worth pausing first to say what inerrancy is not. Some people want inerrancy to include no grammatical irregularities or no strange spellings. Whereas to be quite frank, we in the West are only …
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Is there a central message throughout all 66 unique books of the Bible?
Although the Bible is made up of 66 separate documents of different lengths and different literary types – from poetry to story to genealogy to oracle to lament to some esoteric kinds we rarely use …
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How can We Trust the Canon Created by the Early Church?
First of all, I do not accept that the church fathers created the canon. I think that is an entirely wrong category for what happened. It is the wrong category by their own talk about …
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How can We Reconcile the Old Testament God and the New Testament God?
Many think that the portrayal of God in the Old Testament cannot be squared with the portrayal of God in the New. They have a mental image similar to the following: In the Old Testament, …
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What Answers Does the Bible Give for the ‘Problem of Evil’?
The answers that the Bible gives to what we call ‘the problem of evil’ are hugely diverse. But hugely diverse does not necessarily mean mutually contradictory. It is a subtle set of answers. Let me …
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What Advice Do you Have for Students Enrolling in Dr. Ehrman’s Class?
