Welcome to the podcast Think Biblically, conversations on faith and culture.

I'm your host Scott Ray, Dean of faculty and professor of Christian ethics, the

Taub School of Theology here at Biola University.

And I'm your co-host Sean McDowell, professor. Taubo School of Theology here at Biola University.

And I'm your co-host Sean McDowell, Professor of Apologetics at Taub School of Theology

Biola University.

We're here today with our good friend and colleague at Denver Seminary, Dr Craig Blomberg,

who is distinguished professor of New Testament at Denver,

and Craig, you've been there 30 plus years, right?

It's true.

That's amazing, quite a tenure. And you've got a brand new book out entitled,

Can We Still Believe in God? Subtitle answering 10 contemporary challenges to Christianity. Craig's a New Testament specialist, but tackles

in this book areas that are outside of New Testament, but yet you bring the same kind of insight to these questions that you do

to matters of New Testament scholarship.

So welcome, glad to have you with us.

We so appreciate your book on this. These just a wide

variety of subjects, I'm sort of curious to know to start out with, what motivated you to write this because this is not sort of your typical

New Testament scholarship that you've been involved in?

And how did you pick the subjects, you know, the 10 contemporary challenges?

How did you pick those out and choose to focus on those?

Yes, thank you. Well, it was about five years ago and to the little I spent a little time I spent in the blog world was still enough

for me to realize that I was seeing a lot of the same reasons for skepticism over and over again and to thinking that there have been a lot of good books and articles written on these topics,

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