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The Counsel of Trent

#756 – When Atheists Misread the Bible

The Counsel of Trent

Catholic Answers

Religion & Spirituality

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Trent examines how some atheists falsely indict the Bible as evil or illogical because they didn’t read the text carefully.

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Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

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Hey everyone, welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.

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I'm your host, Cavaganza's Apologist Trent Horn.

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In today's episode, I want to go through three examples of Bible difficulties that are only difficult

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because the atheists who are reading them haven't really read the biblical text carefully

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and are making some unfounded assumptions.

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So let's jump right into that.

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Before we do though, I'm sure you can carefully read the subscribe and the like buttons on our channel.

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If you could hit those, it would be a huge help for me.

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We just passed 70,000 subscribers for the channel.

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And if we could make it to 100,000 by the end of the year, I'd be really grateful.

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Alright, with that said, let's jump right into it.

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Here's the first one.

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Number one, the all-powerful God can't defeat iron chariots.

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This one pops up a lot in memes on the internet.

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There was even an atheistic apologetics website devoted to defending atheism called iron chariots,

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though it's now defunct, I think.

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And here's a clip of Dan Barker, an atheist I've debated twice,

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making this objection in a debate with the Christian apologist Kyle Butz.

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Is he powerful?

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Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh.

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In Jeremiah 32, is there anything too hard for me?

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