Bible Under Attack

Several years ago, I read an article on the Web titled, “What The Bible Got Wrong”. It was about an infographic that purported to display the various contradictions in the Bible. The project was commissioned by a non-profit sceptic organisation called Project Reason, and the article concludes that the image “managed to make an ancient text – over which men have fought wars and women have sacrificed babies – look downright silly.” This derogatory and trivializing view of scripture is all too common in the media today.

While each Christian is not called to be an apologist, it does help to be knowledgeable about the sly, deceptive logic that sceptics use, (or more correctly, NEED), to cast aspersions at God’s word.

It’s quite interesting that the organisation that commissioned the project calls itself Project Reason; as though people who believe the Bible are a set of misled, irrational ignoramuses. Nevertheless, careful analysis of these perennial attacks on scripture reveal a staple of logical fallacies. Fallacies like Ad Hominem, ‘straw man’, composition/division, middle ground, etc. (in addition to the other ones previously discussed here on TWFT).

And why do they keep these attacks on? Because attacking the Bible is attacking the very foundation that your very faith stands on. And Ps. 11:3 says, “If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?”

So next time you hear another attack on the credibility of the Bible, rather than feel overwhelmed, confront that statement by sifting out all the illogicality and speciousness packed into it and strip it of its seemingly intellectual and academic garb.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear – 1Pe 3:15.

AMEN.

More Blessings await you today; you’ll not miss them in Jesus’ Name.

GREG ELKAN