Book Review: Questioning the Bible

The Bible's authority is constantly under attack in today's culture. It is important that Christians prepare themselves to address the challenges for their own faith and for overcoming intellectual challenges in their evangelistic efforts. Jonathan Morrow's new book Questioning the Bible: 11 Major Challenges to the Bible's Authority (Kindle and Paperback) aims to be an introductory resource for the Christian to rise to these challenges at an intellectual level.

The book's 234 pages are divided by the eleven challenges and appendices. Morrow also includes, at the end of each chapter, a three-point summary, questions to spur discussion, and a short list of resources for more in-depth research into the challenges and their resolutions. This review will provide a chapter-by-chapter summary and conclude with the reviewer's overall impression and recommendation.

Weekly Apologetics Bonus Links (11/14 - 11/21)

Here are this week's recommended apologetics links. Enjoy.

KINDLE DEALS:
• How to Argue like Jesus - 0.99
• Christianity's Dangerous Idea by Alister McGrath - 2.99
• When the Lights Go Down: Movie Review as Christian Practice - 3.03
• God's Battalions by Rodney Stark - 2.99
• Faith and Its Critics: A Conversation - 1.99
• Worldview Conversations: How to Share Your Faith and Keep Your Friends - 2.99
• History, Law and Christianity: The Evidence for a Historical Jesus - FREE

WEEKLY LINKS:
• Seven Days That Divide the World
• The Historical Argument for God
• Approaching academic life as a Christian
• 2013 Mt. Airy Apologetics Conference Audio
• Video: Science and Religion...Conflict, Myth
• 3 Considerations for the Ontological Argument
• What If You Can't Be Reasonable Without Faith?
• Can We Answer Every Skeptic’s Question? (Video)
• 2014 Mt.Airy "Defending the Faith" Conference Audio
• How Heretics Help Establish the Historicity of Jesus  
• What is the unborn? A look at the scientific evidence
• Morality Relies Upon God's Character, Not Simply His Commands
• Tips for Sharing Your Faith #4 - Avoid Smokescreens and Dodges
• The importance of having a narrative when confronting the assumption of naturalism

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Terminology Tuesday: Syncretism

Syncretism: The attempt to assimilate differing or opposite doctrines and practices, especially between philosophical and religious systems, resulting in a new system altogether in which the fundamental structure and tenets of each have been changed. Syncretism of the gospel occurs when its essential character is confused with elements from the culture. In syncretism the gospel is lost as the church simply confirms what is already present in the culture.1

1. Stanley J. Grenz, David Guretzki & Cherith Fee Nordling, Pocket Dictionary of Theological Terms (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1999), p. 111.

Weekly Apologetics Bonus Links (11/07 - 11/14)

Here are this week's recommended apologetics links. Enjoy.

KINDLE DEALS:
• Alive: A Cold-Case Approach to the Resurrection - 1.99
• A To Z With C. S. Lewis by Louis A. Markos - 0.99
• Did Jesus Rise From the Dead? by WL Craig - 1.99
• History, Law and Christianity: The Evidence for a Historical Jesus - FREE
• How to Argue like Jesus - 0.99
• If God, Why Evil? by Norman L. Geisler for 1.99
• Christianity's Dangerous Idea by Alister McGrath - 2.99
• When the Lights Go Down: Movie Review as Christian Practice - 3.03

WEEKLY LINKS:
• The Problem of Good
• The Argument from Desire
• What Really is Apologetics?
• Has Science Explained Away God?
• Were the Gospel Authors Biased? (Video)
• Tips for Sharing Your Faith: #1 - Slow Down!
• Moral Relativism and the Reformer’s Dilemma
• Former atheist professor shares her journey to faith
• Learning Logic by William Lane Craig now Available!
• Debate Video: William Lane Craig vs. Richard Carrier
• Why Do Two People See the Same Evidence Differently?
• 5 Threats Of Demanding Certainty To Change Your Beliefs
• Article: 14 Ways I Teach Apologetics to my 5-Year-Olds by Natasha Crain
• At What Age Should Parents Start Training Kids to Defend Their Faith?
• Debate Video: Does the Christian God Exist? J.P. Moreland vs Clancy Martin
• Video: William Lane Craig Interviewed by Lee Strobel At Houston Baptist University

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Terminology Tuesday: Documentary Hypothesis

Documentary Hypothesis: Also known as the JEDP theory, the documentary hypothesis arose out of the work of nineteenth-century OT scholars K. Graf and J. Wellhausen. They suggested that the Pentateuch (the first five books of the OT) was actually a compilation of the work of at least four separate sources, designated as the J (Jehovah) source, the E (Elohim) source, the D (Deuteronomist) source and the P (Priestly) source. The hypothesis stirred great controversy among conservative scholars who generally accepted Moses as the sole author of the Pentateuch.1

1. Stanley J. Grenz, David Guretzki & Cherith Fee Nordling, Pocket Dictionary of Theological Terms (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1999), p. 40.

Terminology Tuesday: Docetism

Docetism: In the early church, the teaching that Jesus was fully God but only appeared to be human (taken form the Greek dokeō, "to seem or appear"). Docetist theologians emphasized the qualitative difference between God and humans and therefore downplayed the human elements of Jesus' life in favor of those that pointed to his deity. The early church rejected docetism as an heretical interpretation of the biblical teaching about Jesus.1

1. Stanley J. Grenz, David Guretzki & Cherith Fee Nordling, Pocket Dictionary of Theological Terms (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1999), p. 40.