The Importance of Clinging to the Historicity of the Bible

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This chapter explores the significance of Christians holding onto the historical accuracy of the Bible alongside their personal experience of Christ. The speakers discuss the translation of 2 Timothy 3:16, the manuscript evidence for the Bible, the role of translations, and the relationship between biblical events and personal Christian experience.

The Bible. A divinely-inspired book so glorious and yet so debated these days that we decided to record another podcast on this essential topic.

In 1820 Thomas Jefferson completed his redacted version of the Four Gospels he called “The Philosophy and Morals of Jesus.” Although it wasn’t published in his lifetime, “The Jefferson Bible” would become a popular example of an alarming trend in post-enlightenment hermeneutics: cutting and pasting with the Word of God.

According to Jefferson and other readers and scholars since, the Bible is an imperfect text. There might be truth in its pages, but it needs a modern lens, or additions, or subtractions to purify it or to make sense of its ancient obscure meaning. There are hard things to understand in the Bible, they say, supernatural events that are difficult to believe. So, does the Bible need to change? Or do we?

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