#156: The Old Testament: Reliable history or a book of myths? With Kristen Davis
The Alisa Childers Podcast
Alisa Childers
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🗓️ 5 June 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Can we trust the Old Testament? Is it an accurate record of history or simply a book written by people trying to understand God from their cultural perspectives? Kristen Davis joins me to talk about the reliability of the Old Testament, its archaeological support and historical accuracy.
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| 0:00.0 | The beauty of what God did with Israel, we look at it and we think it was horrifying to the Canaanites. |
| 0:05.2 | We think, oh my gosh, it's terrible. |
| 0:06.6 | But actually, Clay Jones, who was a professor of mine in Biola, he says, |
| 0:10.7 | that's because we identify with the Canaanites rather than Israelites. |
| 0:31.0 | Welcome to the Alisa Childers Podcast. |
| 0:33.0 | We're here live on site at the Southern Evangelical Seminary National Apologetics Conference. |
| 0:38.8 | It's the conference I look forward to every year. |
| 0:41.1 | So we've set up a podcast studio here. |
| 0:43.1 | And I want to introduce you to my first guest. |
| 0:45.3 | This is somebody that I have wanted to have on the podcast for a long time. |
| 0:49.8 | So Kristen, thank you so much for joining me. |
| 0:52.1 | It's Kristen Davis. |
| 0:53.1 | So Kristen, just for anyone who's unfamiliar with you, take a moment and let us know |
| 0:58.1 | something about yourself, who you are, what kind of work you do, and why you're here to talk to me today. |
| 1:04.9 | Yeah, so I'm kind of a jack of all trades. I am a software developer by trade. |
| 1:09.3 | That's what is my bills. |
| 1:11.3 | But I absolutely love Christian apologetics and more specifically biblical archaeology |
| 1:15.5 | because that's the stuff that saved my faith. |
| 1:17.5 | And so I have a bachelor's in religion from Liberty, Masters of Arts and Christian apologetics |
| 1:23.1 | from Biola, and I am in my dissertation phase at SES in their PhD program. |
| 1:28.2 | So what's your dissertation on? |
| 1:30.5 | It's on artificial intelligence and showing how that is not going to be evidence |
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