Re: Switching Course on Apologetics
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2016 9:29 pm
@jason. I assume you mean the new atheists. Dawkins, Sam Harris, et al. Agreed. They are a nasty bunch. They are atheist fundamentalists imo. And while Bart Ehrman accurately represents the current state of biblical scholarship, he is too bitter about his evangelical upbringing and it comes out in his debates. So as much as I think his books are sound, I can't recommend them to people.
My opinion is that in order to do apologetic work in the 21st century, you have to acknowledge the church's antagonism against naturalism and historical studies. This is killing the gospel. College students are on the battlefront in the war. The church's insistence on inerrancy and scientific and historical accuracy of the Bible has left Christian students without the tools to contextualize Christianity within the new reality. Josh McDowell and Lee Strobel won't stem that tide because they aren't addressing the core problem that millenials face: the incongruity between modern research and the traditional view of the Bible.
There are other options. In fact... I'm writing on this subject myself.
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My opinion is that in order to do apologetic work in the 21st century, you have to acknowledge the church's antagonism against naturalism and historical studies. This is killing the gospel. College students are on the battlefront in the war. The church's insistence on inerrancy and scientific and historical accuracy of the Bible has left Christian students without the tools to contextualize Christianity within the new reality. Josh McDowell and Lee Strobel won't stem that tide because they aren't addressing the core problem that millenials face: the incongruity between modern research and the traditional view of the Bible.
There are other options. In fact... I'm writing on this subject myself.
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