Bill Pratt | October 12, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Continuing from part 3 of this series, we now turn to more of the mistakes critics make when alleging errors in the Bible. These mistakes are taken from Norman Geisler and Tom Howe’s The Big Book of Bible Difficulties. Mistake #8: Assuming that a Partial Report is a False Report. Sometimes [...]
Bill Pratt | October 8, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Continuing from part 2 of this series, we now turn to more of the mistakes critics make when alleging errors in the Bible. These mistakes are taken from Norman Geisler and Tom Howe’s The Big Book of Bible Difficulties. Mistake #6: Basing a Teaching on an Obscure Passage. Some passages in [...]
Bill Pratt | October 4, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Continuing from part 1 of this series, we now turn to more of the mistakes critics make when alleging errors in the Bible. These mistakes are taken from Norman Geisler and Tom Howe’s The Big Book of Bible Difficulties. Mistake #3: Confusing Our Fallible Interpretations with God’s Infallible Revelation. The words [...]
Bill Pratt | September 30, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt One of the most common accusations I hear from skeptics is that the Bible is full of errors and contradictions. How do you and I, as Christians who believe the Bible is without error, deal with these claims? Several years ago, I purchased a book by Norman Geisler and Tom Howe [...]
Darrell | September 20, 2009
Post Author: Darrell God has given believers of Jesus Christ the promise of “a peace which passes all understanding” (Phil 4:7). What a wonderful promise! This peace does not come from anything the world can give us. Rather, it comes from having a relationship with Christ, being forgiven, and knowing that our salvation is assured. [...]
Bill Pratt | August 23, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Any serious student of the Bible knows that the biblical authors employed a large variety of written literary genres. The Bible contains poetry, historical narrative, wisdom literature, personal letters, parables, theological and philosophical arguments, and much more. As an apologist, I have always been drawn to the theological and philosophical argumentation [...]
Bill Pratt | August 12, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Textual critics are the scholars who study the manuscript evidence for the New Testament and determine which readings among the various manuscripts are likely to be the original (see previous post for background). Although the vast majority of the variants are simple spelling or word order errors made by copyists, there [...]
Bill Pratt | August 8, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Christians are often confused about this question, so I want to give a quick summary. The 27 books of the New Testament (NT) were originally written in the common Greek language of the first century. They were all hand-written, likely on papyrus. These hand-written manuscripts were then copied, by hand, for [...]
Bill Pratt | July 28, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt My seminary professor, Norm Geisler, used to say, “Everything the Bible affirms is literally true, but not true, literally.” What he meant by this is that we cannot read the Bible in a wooden, “literal” way when it is clearly using figurative language. A good Catholic friend of mine once asked [...]
Bill Pratt | July 15, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Only if the skeptic is open to the existence of a God who can intervene in the affairs of the world. I have discussed the historical reliability of the New Testament with many skeptics over the years. The skeptics I typically speak to inevitably dismiss or downplay much of the historical [...]
