As you may know there are many books, blogs and articles that make claims about the unreliability of the Bible. Often Christians have similar concerns because they don’t have sufficient information about the Bible. Craig L. Blomberg’s book Can We Still Believe the Bible? An Evangelical Engagement with Contemporary Questions doesn’t break new ground in Biblical studies. […]
Tag: biblical literalism
Literally Literal,It’s Not About You (Or Me)
In the previous post, we began thinking about what constitutes a literal reading of the Bible. One aspect of a literal reading is taking the situation and world view of the original audience into account. The various books of the Bible were written to and by people in a particular time and place. But this […]
Literally literal
It is common these days to claim a literal reading of the Bible is the best reading of the Bible. When people talk about a literal reading they often mean what is sometimes called a plain reading of the text. In reality this often ends up with the text meaning whatever the reader thinks it […]
Why?
Sometimes I wonder why things are the way they are. Today I want to ask your thoughts on a particular question to see if you can help me understand. Why has it become so important that Genesis chapters one and two be interpreted literally? Why those particular chapters? This is not a science and religion […]
Reading Genesis: Beyond fact and fiction
Over the past few months I have made several statements about how to interpret parts of the creation story in Genesis. While I have written that I don’t think a literal interpretation is sufficient and have written some posts about certain passages, perhaps it is time for me to be somewhat more organized about this […]
