Has the Biblical Text Been Corrupted over the Centuries?
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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.
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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Has the Biblical Text Been Corrupted over the Centuries? - 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
The impression sometimes given in discussions of the text of the New Testament is that the text itself is entirely fluid and unstable, and that it was subject to so much variation and change through especially the first two centuries that its very stability is threatened. This simply is not true.¹
Stanley Porter
Have you ever been reading the Bible and come across a passage set off in brackets and then followed by a footnote? Next, you follow the footnote and discover that this particular passage is