Chapter 3: Overcoming the hostilities to the Word
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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
- You have probably never heard the evidence that Genesis was written by eye witnesses. It is an old and subtle hostility to the word of God to say that Moses wrote it. If Moses wrote it, how can God expect us to believe it? How does this claim differ from that of others who claim to have heard from God? God does not expect us to blindly believe such things. He said we could know and then believe. [1]
- Challenging dates of books
- Claims by scholars that books were written long after the recorded or traditional dating is designed to cast doubt in the same manner as the claim that Moses wrote Genesis.
- Challenging preservation of the text
- There are actually many important changes to the Hebrew text since the time of Jesus. Around
Doubting the language
- Proto-Hebrew vs. Sqaure-text
Doubting the Text
- Anachronism
- Cultural impositions
Ignorance as Truth
- Misunderstood text
- Doctrinal imposition
Wrong Genre
- Literal-historical
