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    Are the Gospels Full of Contradictions?
    Are the Gospels Full of Contradictions?
    Are the Gospels Full of Contradictions?
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    Are the Gospels Full of Contradictions?

    By Jonathan Morrow

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    Can a thoughtful person today seriously believe that God wrote a book? There are an unprecedented number of sophisticated attacks on the origin, credibility, and reliability of the Bible. It can be difficult to know what to say when skepticism and secularism take over so many conversations.

    Additionally, confusion and doubt about the Bible being God's Word are becoming as common inside the church as they are in the broader culture. The purpose of this book is to respond to these challenges, sound bites, and slogans...and give people confidence that the Bible can be trusted and that it matters for our lives because God really has spoken.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMoody Publishers
    Release dateSep 1, 2014
    ISBN9780802493064
    Are the Gospels Full of Contradictions?
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    Jonathan Morrow

    Jonathan Morrow is the founder of www.thinkChristianly.org. He cowrote (with Sean McDowell) Is God Just a Human Invention? and is the author of Welcome to College: A Christ-follower’s Guide for the Journey. He graduated with a MDiv and an MA from Talbot School of Theology and serves as equipping pastor at Fellowship Bible Church in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. You can visit him online at www.thinkChristianly.org.

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      Are the Gospels Full of Contradictions? - Jonathan Morrow

      CONTENTS

      Foreword

      Introduction:

      What You May Not Have Learned in Church about the Bible

        1. Is the Bible Anti-intellectual?

        2. What Can We Really Know about Jesus?

        3. How Do We Know What the Earliest Christians Believed?

        4. Why Were Some Gospels Banned from the Bible?

        5. Did the Biblical Writers Lie about Their Identity?

        6. Has the Biblical Text Been Corrupted over the Centuries?

      7. Are the Gospels Full of Contradictions?

        8. Is the Bible Unscientific?

        9. Is the Bible Sexist, Racist, Homophobic, and Genocidal?

      10. What Do Christians Believe about the Bible?

      11. Which Interpretation of the Bible Is Correct?

      Conclusion:

      What If a New Generation Took the Bible Seriously?

      Notes

      Acknowledgments

      Appendix 1:

      A Noncircular Argument for the Bible as God’s Word

      Appendix 2:

      Archaeology and the Historical Reliability of the Bible

      Appendix 3:

      Why a New Generation Doesn’t Take the Bible Seriously

      It is perfectly true that our responsibility is to study the biblical difficulties in order, if possible, to understand and harmonize them. To explain them to everyone’s satisfaction however, or to provide a harmony in every instance, is not incumbent upon us.¹

      E. J. Young

      When students are first introduced to the historical, as opposed to a devotional, study of the Bible, writes Bart Ehrman, one of the first things they are forced to grapple with is that the biblical text, whether Old Testament or New Testament, is chock-full of discrepancies, many of them irreconcilable."² Later he writes, "A Christianity dependent on the inerrancy of the Bible probably cannot survive

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