By Terry L. Wilder

In protection of the Bible gathers remarkable articles by way of comprehensive students (Paul Copan, William A. Dembski, Mary Jo Sharp, Darrell L. Bock, etc.), addressing and responding to the entire significant modern demanding situations to the divine idea and authority of Scripture.

The ebook starts off via philosophical and methodological demanding situations to the Bible—questions approximately even if it's logically attainable for God to speak verbally with humans; what it capacity to claim the Bible is correct in accordance with postmodern issues concerning the nature of fact; protecting the readability of Scripture opposed to old skepticism and relativism.

Contributors additionally discover textual and ancient challenges—charges made by means of Muslims, Mormons, and skeptics that the Bible has been corrupted past fix; questions about the authorship of sure biblical books; allegations that the Bible borrows from pagan myths; the ancient reliability of the outdated and New Testaments.

Final chapters tackle moral, medical, and theological demanding situations— demonstrating the Bible's ethical integrity in regards to the themes of slavery and sexism; harmonizing exegetical and theological conclusions with the findings of technology; addressing accusations that the Christian canon is the results of political and theological manipulation; eventually protecting the Bible as now not easily traditionally trustworthy and constant, yet actually the observe of God.

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