Chapter 3: Overcoming the hostilities to the Word

Chapter 3: Overcoming the hostilities to the Word [∞]

Children are able to approach God without preconceived ideas. Unfortunately, the rest of us have been taught to be hostile to the Word of God and to doubt it. These subtle hostilities take several forms, but they all tempt us to disbelieve. Until now some have simply refused to give in to the temptations, but now we have the ability to see the hostilities for what they are and resist them by a knowledge of God.

The first step in eliminating hostilities is to identify them.

Challenging the Source

Challenging book authors

Challenges to dates of books

Challenges to preservation of the text

Doubting the language

Proto-Hebrew vs. Sqaure-text

Doubting the Text

Anachronism

Ignorance as Truth

Misunderstood text

Doctrinal imposition

Wrong Genre

Literal-historical