{"id":34381,"date":"2019-07-11T05:17:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T09:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=34381"},"modified":"2019-07-02T17:17:59","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T21:17:59","slug":"can-fundamentalists-understand-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2019\/07\/can-fundamentalists-understand-the-bible.html","title":{"rendered":"Can Fundamentalists Understand the Bible?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

This blog post started out as being about the old canard that non-Christians supposedly cannot understand the Bible. That claim is often justified by appeal to a passage that the Christians who make the claim, rather ironically, have misunderstood. By the end of the process of putting the post together, I found myself thinking that the relevant question is whether fundamentalists can understand the Bible. And it soon became clear that that question applies equally to Christian and anti-Christian fundamentalists.<\/p>\n

Christ Is How We Understand Scripture (Not The Other Way Around)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/iframe><\/p>\nhttp:\/\/brucegerencser.net\/2016\/04\/non-christians-cant-understand-read-anyway\/<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.atheistrev.com\/2016\/07\/when-atheists-read-christian-bible.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">When atheists read the Christian Bible<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/randalrauser.com\/2019\/06\/reflections-on-a-study-bible-for-atheists\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Randal Rauser wrote on that topic<\/a>: \u201cSadly, when it comes to the way atheists read the Bible, Shermer\u2019s attitude seems to be more the rule than the exception. The\u00a0Skeptic\u2019s Annotated Study Bible\u00a0<\/i>claims to offer a reasonable and skeptical analysis of the biblical text. But in fact, all it demonstrates is that we should be skeptical of the skeptics.\u201d<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/ehrmanblog.org\/does-a-person-need-the-holy-spirit-to-interpret-the-bible-is-johns-gospel-accurate-readers-mailbag-august-7-2016\/<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/steveawiggins.com\/2019\/03\/25\/chapter-and-verse\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Steve Wiggins wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>Modern ways of looking at ancient texts require a degree of facility in understanding how God\u2019s scribes of yesteryear went about their work.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>While early experiments in binding books may go back close to the time when the latter parts of the Bible were being written, the scroll\u2014without chapter and verse\u2014contained only the words of the text.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Most ancient manuscripts in Greek, anyway, didn\u2019t even bother to put spaces between the words.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>That leaves some room for ambiguity in among all those letters.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The Bible is a complex book with a complex history.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>We do it a disservice as modern readers treating it as a modern book.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nAlso related to biblical interpretation:<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/peteenns.com\/can-bible-trusted-even-mean\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pete Enns asks what it even means to talk about whether the Bible can be trusted<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"p2y9DHTa93\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/2019\/06\/it-turns-out-the-bible-is-not-so-clear-as-all-that.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">It turns out the Bible is not so clear as all that<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cIt turns out the Bible is not so clear as all that\u201d \u2014 Love, Joy, Feminism\" src=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/2019\/06\/it-turns-out-the-bible-is-not-so-clear-as-all-that.html\/embed#?secret=Cfbjzy8MHP#?secret=p2y9DHTa93\" data-secret=\"p2y9DHTa93\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"RbisczMj4Q\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/keithgiles\/2019\/04\/no-bible-know-christ\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">No Bible? Know Christ.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cNo Bible? Know Christ.\u201d \u2014 Keith Giles\" src=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/keithgiles\/2019\/04\/no-bible-know-christ\/embed\/#?secret=7x0LgBsi7C#?secret=RbisczMj4Q\" data-secret=\"RbisczMj4Q\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"P3b8HSqaZ7\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/06\/do-you-need-a-phd-to-understand-the-bible.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Do You Need a PhD to Understand the Bible?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cDo You Need a PhD to Understand the Bible?\u201d \u2014 Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. McGrath\" src=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/06\/do-you-need-a-phd-to-understand-the-bible.html\/embed#?secret=uVulVYEHFg#?secret=P3b8HSqaZ7\" data-secret=\"P3b8HSqaZ7\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\nhttps:\/\/internetmonk.com\/archive\/85928<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/internetmonk.com\/archive\/85998<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"SuiKRye7uX\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2019\/04\/03\/red-letter-vs-black-letter-bible-people-or\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Red Letter vs. Black Letter Bible People: Or?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cRed Letter vs. Black Letter Bible People: Or?\u201d \u2014 Jesus Creed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2019\/04\/03\/red-letter-vs-black-letter-bible-people-or\/embed\/#?secret=rMuEOAAMtb#?secret=SuiKRye7uX\" data-secret=\"SuiKRye7uX\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\nhttps:\/\/jewishjournal.com\/culture\/books\/296345\/a-masterful-primer-on-bible-translation\/<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/brucegerencser.net\/2019\/06\/the-road-to-atheism-is-littered-with-well-read-bibles\/<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.postost.net\/2019\/06\/bible-story-or-poetry-or-something-else\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Andrew Perriman on whether the Bible is better understood as poetry<\/a><\/p>\nhttps:\/\/internetmonk.com\/archive\/86919<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.christiancentury.org\/article\/editors\/imagination-heart-faith<\/p>\nIronically, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atheistrev.com\/2006\/04\/fundamentalist-christians-are-right.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Atheist Rev reposted something about how fundamentalists are right<\/a>, and illustrated precisely the problem. Fundamentalist Christians and the atheists who used to be them and are now in many instances fundamentalist atheists do agree fundamentally, pun intended. The idea that no interpretation is needed when dealing with an ancient text written in another language in a very different time and place is something that no one but a fundamentalist, whether religious or anti-religious, could contemplate saying and expect it to be taken seriously. Indeed, without some sort of fundamentalist ideological framework, the patent absurdity would likely be readily apparent.<\/p>\nFinally, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christiancentury.org\/article\/editors\/imagination-heart-faith\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the article about the decline of biblical literacy and the role of imagination in reading the Bible in Christian Century<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This blog post started out as being about the old canard that non-Christians supposedly cannot understand the Bible. That claim is often justified by appeal to a passage that the Christians who make the claim, rather ironically, have misunderstood. 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