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This sort of atheist or Bible skeptic loves to gleefully suggest supposed contradictions in the Bible, so he can feel all the more comfortable and comfy-cozy in his atheist \/ skeptical \u201cskin.\u201d He can confidently, triumphantly face each new day with his head held high, \u201cknowing\u201d that he has \u201crefuted\u201d those ignorant, lying, intellectually dishonest Christian apologists once again. He correctly\u00a0<\/span>understands<\/span>\u00a0the Bible; we Christians don\u2019t, because (so he tells us) we are blinded by our belief in inspired written revelation.<\/span><\/p>\nEveryone has their natural biases of party affiliation; sure. I\u2019ve always acknowledged that. But there is bias, and there is\u00a0BIAS<\/span>\u00a0(if you know what I mean). These folks truly see what they want to see. When it comes to butchering individual Bible passages, we Christians refer to that with the 50-cent word\u00a0eisegesis<\/span>, which means literally \u201creading into the text [what is not there].\u201d<\/p>\nWe can be assured that when these types\u00a0set out to \u201cinterpret\u201d the Bible the result always comes out the same: the Bible is untrustworthy and self-contradictory. It\u2019s made up. It\u2019s not what it purports to be: not even on the level of historical analysis and verification (wholly apart from the question of error-free inspiration).<\/p>\n
Now, it is true, on the other hand, that when Christians (like myself), who believe in biblical inspiration and infallibility, interpret the Bible, it \u201ccomes out\u201d harmonious and self-consistent. Very true. We have a bias \u201cfer,\u201d and the atheist has a bias \u201cagin\u201d the Bible. That\u2019s a given. All we can do in the final analysis is apply the logic and common sense that both sides presumably have (or\u00a0should<\/span>\u00a0have) in common, and let the reader determine which individual interpretation is more plausible and reasonable to hold.<\/p>\nThe problem, bottom-line, with this sort of skepticism, however, is that an apologist like myself could possibly \u201csolve\u201d one or two or three proposed \u201cdifficulties\u201d or \u201ccontradictions\u201d to the skeptic\u2019s satisfaction, but they will simply come up with ten more. I learned this many years ago (I\u2019ve been doing apologetics now for 34 years) It never ends. The problem is at the presuppositional level, causing one to be forever skeptical.<\/p>\n
The apologist can\u2019t solve that problem, but in any event, we have to decide how many hundreds of hours to spend answering garden variety objections till Kingdom Come, or to draw the line somewhere, realizing that we can never argue someone into Christianity by answering 952 objections to this or that in the Bible and\/or Church. That ain\u2019t the way that people of this sort are persuaded.<\/p>\n
What atheists and biblical skeptics\u00a0overlook is that one already has to have an\u00a0interpretive grid<\/i>\u00a0or framework in place in order to interpret the evidence in the first place. There is no such thing as a clean slate. To\u00a0deny that prior interpretation is required in order to weigh the evidence and have some method of determining what is compelling evidence, is epistemologically naive.<\/p>\n
These folks have no intention whatsoever of affording the biblical documents even minimal respect. It\u2019s pure skepticism. They\u00a0disrespect it as their starting presupposition and therefore they\u00a0keep \u201cfinding\u201d out information that causes them to hate it all the more.<\/p>\n
Yet we constantly hear from them a bunch\u00a0of hooey, that they are approaching it with total objectivity and fairness, that just so happens in each and every case to cause them to\u00a0conclude (surprise!) it is untrustworthy and contradictory. They\u00a0find what they want<\/em> to find (special pleading) because their\u00a0\u00a0mind is already made up before you begin any particular \u201cstudy.\u201d<\/p>\nWe should always ask these skeptics when there was ever a\u00a0time when they set out to show that the Bible was contradictory, but then discovered that [in a particular case] it\u00a0wasn\u2019t<\/span>, and that the Christian argument was more plausible. But just one would not prove \u00a0fair-mindedness. Several such instances might indicate\u00a0open-mindedness and the absence of\u00a0an \u201canti-Bible\u201d agenda. But if the conclusions are never other than what we expect from the Bible skeptic\u00a0(biblical contradiction) then they shouldn\u2019t\u00a0expect us Christians to stop questioning their hostile premises and a hostile overall agenda. It\u2019s perfectly reasonable and plausible for us to conclude what we do, from the \u201cevidence\u201d of \u00a0relentlessly skeptical\u00a0conclusions<\/span>.<\/p>\nIn terms merely of literary study or research, clearly the person who loves and respects a document (whether it is a religious document or not) is in a much better place to accurately interpret and understand it (despite quite possible mistakes arising from too much favorable bias) than the one who hates the same document for some reason: thinks that it fosters immorality, is a bunch of fairy tales, is the result of cynical after-the-fact tampering, contains moral and logical and theological ludicrosities, presents a false metaphysic, etc.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t see how that is even arguable. But the skeptic and\/or atheist\u00a0has to fight against it in order to maintain this farcical facade of supposed neutrality, extraordinary open-mindedness and superior intelligence and logical acumen, that most agnostics and atheists seem to assume is true of themselves as a matter of course, over against us (as the caricature would have it) evidence- and reason-fearing, gullible Christians.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s part of the hostile brand of atheist\u2019s (or \u201canti-theist\u2019s\u201d) persona and self-perception: \u201cwe are the open-minded, smart ones. We go where evidence leads; those Christians don\u2019t do that; they are dogmatic, anti-science, anti-reason, and prone to infantile belief in fairy tales and myths.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Cervantes\u2019 Don Quixote tilting at windmills [Flickr \/ CC BY-SA 2.0 license] I\u2019ve often said that the atheist or otherwise relentlessly skeptical person who wars against the Bible, approaches Holy Scripture like a butcher approaches a hog. They\u2019ll never understand it by means of such a ludicrous and hostile method. There can be legitimate questions, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2331,"featured_media":3375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,31],"tags":[679,523,674],"class_list":["post-3374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atheism-agnosticism","category-bible-and-tradition","tag-bias-against-scripture","tag-biblical-skepticism","tag-eisegesis"],"yoast_head":"\n
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