Can We Still Believe the Bible?
Challenges to the reliability of Scripture are perennial and have frequently been addressed. However, some of these challenges are noticeably more common today, and the topic is currently of particular interest among evangelicals
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In this volume, highly regarded biblical scholar Craig Blomberg offers an accessible and nuanced argument for the Bible's reliability in response to the extreme views about Scripture and its authority articulated by both sides of the debate. He believes that a careful analysis of the relevant evidence shows we have reason to be more confident in the Bible than ever before. As he traces his own academic and spiritual journey, Blomberg sketches out the case for confidence in the Bible in spite of various challenges to the trustworthiness of Scripture, offering a positive, informed, and defensible approach.
Top Highlights
“What Ehrman doesn’t make clear is that the number and nature of manuscripts we have make it extraordinarily unlikely that we shall ever again find variants that are not already known.” (Page 16)
“Some scholars estimate that there are four hundred thousand textual variants among the ancient New Testament manuscripts” (Page 13)
“Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. His definition reads, ‘Inerrancy means that when all facts are known, the Scriptures in their original autographs and properly interpreted will be shown to be wholly true in everything that they affirm, whether that has to do with doctrine or morality or with the social, physical, or life sciences’” (Page 123)
“The issue addressed in this chapter is that of the literary form or genre of biblical books or their components. The Old Testament contains books of history, wisdom, law, and prophecy. The New Testament books represent the genres of gospel, acts, epistle, and apocalypse. Each of these can be subdivided into numerous more specific subgenres, and each requires principles of interpretation appropriate to the literary form involved.” (Page 148)
“Suffice it for now to say that the standard, orthodox theology of the church has never been to claim inerrant transmission of God’s Word, merely inerrant originals.” (Page 37)
- Title: Can We Still Believe the Bible? An Evangelical Engagement with Contemporary Questions
- Author: Craig Blomberg
- Publisher: Brazos
- Print Publication Date: 2014
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible › Evidences, authority, etc
- ISBNs: 9781441219961, 9781587433214, 144121996X, 1587433214
- Resource ID: LLS:9781441245649
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T05:48:29Z
Craig Blomberg is distinguished professor of New Testament at Denver Seminary, where he has been teaching since 1986. Blomberg earned degrees from Augustana College, Trinity Divinity School, and Aberdeen University in Scotland. He previously taught at Palm Beach Atlantic College and spent one year in Cambridge as a research fellow with Tyndale House. He has been on translation committees for the New Living Translation, English Standard Version, and the Holman Christian Standard Bible.
Blomberg is the author, coauthor, or co-editor of numerous books and more than 80 articles in journals or multi-author works. A recurring topic of interest in his writings is the historical reliability of the Scriptures, and he has also covered such diverse issues as wealth and poverty, hermeneutics, and women in ministry. His books include Jesus and the Gospels: An Introduction and Survey, 2nd ed., Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament: James, A Handbook of New Testament Exegesis, Making Sense of the New Testament, Preaching the Parables, and The NIV Application Commentary: 1 Corinthians.