iStock/LindaJohnsonbaugh I’ve looked at the credibility of the Bible (here, here and here), and recently talked about Paul’s christology. In the…
I’ve already touched on why I find the Bible lacking in credibility (particularly here and here). The question may arise then…
Somehow I became convinced that the bible was credible. Actually, it was systematic exposure from a young age to a…
I used to have other reasons (meta arguments, in the sense that they do not use the text of the Bible directly) for accepting the validity of the claims of the Bible. Ultimately they do not matter—for me, the whole thing falls apart with the lack of credibility of the Bible, taken on its own terms, rather than based on some meta-argument. In other words, the biblical text is itself not credible where it matters (discussed in Section 3). But people use these meta-arguments to establish the credibility of the Bible, regardless of how incredible the text is, so I wanted to look at a few of them, and one in particular, which is the continued existence of the Christian church. I do not intend to look at this rigorously, but rather to point out a way that might be helpful to understand this and to explore where this kind of thinking might get us.
Photo Thomas Bresson, CC BY 3.0., via Wikimedia Commons There was a quote in our order of service this week, by…
