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March 27, 2021
A Good book for understanding things in the Bible. I am reading it again and studying it.
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March 6, 2017this is a beautiful book
September 28, 2014
This is probably the most narrow-minded and inaccurate textbook book I have encountered in my 10 years of teaching at Christian schools. The chapter topics were great, but the text--well, I am not sure what audience would find it appropriate.
An example of the book's illogic: referring to the Bible, “If some have died for it, surely we should be willing to live for it.” p 11 By this logic we ought to live for drugs, ISIS, Communism, and every other thing someone had died for.
An example of illogic plus arrogance: In arguing for the inspiration of the Bible, “Writings of unregenerate men would not have been considered worthy of the time and effort to read them.” This from a company whose literature books contain works by men who were professedly not Christian. I suppose that we should not study Plato's, Einstein's, or Benjamin Franklin's works because they were not Christians?
Urban legends without documentation abound, foisted upon students as facts. For instance, there is a story about Voltaire's house being made a printing shop for Bibles after his death.
Tautological arguments are the only ones given for the God-breathed inspiration of the Bible (The Bible is God's word because it says it is--2 Timothy 3:16 etc.)
Bible verses are wrenched out of context to prove all kind of things that they don't apply to.
Scientific reliability of the Bible is argued by quoting verses that show among other things that "the stars are very far away." Deep. Very Deep.
This book epitomizes the stereotype of narrow-minded myth-dwelling ignorance that traditional Christians are given. We have to do better than this, and we can do better than this book. If you respect the Bible as God's word, if you think truth is a value in textbooks, if you think Christian students ought to have meaningful dialogue with nonbelievers, you should avoid this book.
An example of the book's illogic: referring to the Bible, “If some have died for it, surely we should be willing to live for it.” p 11 By this logic we ought to live for drugs, ISIS, Communism, and every other thing someone had died for.
An example of illogic plus arrogance: In arguing for the inspiration of the Bible, “Writings of unregenerate men would not have been considered worthy of the time and effort to read them.” This from a company whose literature books contain works by men who were professedly not Christian. I suppose that we should not study Plato's, Einstein's, or Benjamin Franklin's works because they were not Christians?
Urban legends without documentation abound, foisted upon students as facts. For instance, there is a story about Voltaire's house being made a printing shop for Bibles after his death.
Tautological arguments are the only ones given for the God-breathed inspiration of the Bible (The Bible is God's word because it says it is--2 Timothy 3:16 etc.)
Bible verses are wrenched out of context to prove all kind of things that they don't apply to.
Scientific reliability of the Bible is argued by quoting verses that show among other things that "the stars are very far away." Deep. Very Deep.
This book epitomizes the stereotype of narrow-minded myth-dwelling ignorance that traditional Christians are given. We have to do better than this, and we can do better than this book. If you respect the Bible as God's word, if you think truth is a value in textbooks, if you think Christian students ought to have meaningful dialogue with nonbelievers, you should avoid this book.
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