818: Is the Bible Reliable? Evidence from Its Message
Theology in the Raw
Theology in the Raw
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🗓️ 10 September 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Whenever people consider the reliability of the Bible, they usually look to historical or archaeological evidence. And indeed, I covered that in the previous video. But in this final video of our 3 part series on the reliability of the Bible, I want to consider the message of the Bible itself as evidence for its authenticity.
The Bible critiques power, humanizes women (compared it its surrounding culture), has a deep concern for the poor and marginalized, and exhibits many other values that go against the views of its surrounding culture.
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| 0:15.6 | Hello friends welcome back to another episode of theology in the raw so this is the third of a three part series on the Bible the first one we talked about the canonization second one we talked about history and archaeology and then in this episode we are going to talk about the message of the Bible itself and how the message the nature of the message adds credibility to the |
| 0:20.8 | authenticity of scripture. I don't think this is a standalone piece of scripture. |
| 0:22.5 | I don't think this is a standalone piece of evidence. |
| 0:25.3 | I don't think you can just take what I'm about to talk about in the next 30, 40 minutes |
| 0:29.4 | and say, therefore the Bible must be true. |
| 0:32.2 | But I do think it does lend credibility and I don't see a lot of people talk about this. |
| 0:36.4 | I do hear people, you know critics especially say, you know, the Bible is you know hand-picked by a bunch of men in power you know and they use these |
| 0:46.3 | religious documents to oppress people I'm going to show in this episode why I think |
| 0:50.8 | that that line of reasoning is is really bad and inaccurate and doesn't |
| 0:55.8 | actually take any consideration the actual message of the Bible. So we're going |
| 1:01.0 | to get into that. If you would like to support the show, |
| 1:02.9 | you can go to Patreon.com forward slash Theology and The Ross |
| 1:05.4 | show for as little as five bucks a month. |
| 1:07.6 | And again, just so you know, in case you're just listening to this |
| 1:10.7 | podcast, haven't listened to the previous two. This was originally a sermon |
| 1:14.7 | that I preached at Valley Christian Center in Dublin, California, so you'll hear me, especially |
| 1:20.0 | in the intro reference this as a sermon, so that's what's going on there. |
| 1:23.4 | All right let's dive in. Hello, Dally Christian Church. My name is Preston Sprinkle and it's good to be back with you for this Sunday morning together in this weird time that we're living in. What does it mean to be together? I mean some of |
| 1:54.8 | you are watching online from your living room, maybe you're right down the street |
| 1:58.8 | from the church in Dublin, California. Maybe some of you are watching this Sunday night or Wednesday night. Maybe you're watching this two weeks after I recorded it. |
| 2:07.5 | And hopefully the world is still somewhat together when you are watching this sermon, this talk that I'm going to be giving |
| 2:15.9 | on the reliability of the Bible. |
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