Bill, we have an article by Tanner the Humanist called Seven Truths Christian Scholars

acknowledge that evangelicals reject.

Let's take a look at the seven truths and see if they are indeed true. And by the way,

he says the scholars to which he is referring all identifies Christians who study history,

the Bible, and ancient text. And Tanner is a skeptic of this. Well, this whole article, Kevin, is something of a puzzle to me.

Tanner acknowledges that the scholars he's going to cite are themselves Christian.

So what's the point in showing that lay people often have beliefs which are at odds with Christian

scholarship?

This is precisely the sort of problem that a ministry like reasonable faith recognizes and

seeks to rectify by educating Christian layman.

But there's just no point in bashing Christian layman. But there's just no point in bashing Christian layman for not being familiar with scholarship.

Moreover, Kevin, it's very telling that Tanner opposes Christian scholars to evangelicals.

Christian scholars acknowledge these truths.

Evangelicals do not.

Now, that's a false dichotomy,

since many Christian scholars are evangelicals.

He seems to equate being an evangelical with being a layman,

which ignores the vast community of evangelical Christian scholars. So here is number one. The Bible

has many errors. He writes, one of the first things most Christian scholars will tell you is that the Bible, despite being divinely inspired, is still a product of human hands.

That means it has errors, and they believe that that's totally fine.

Scholars have long agreed that there are inconsistencies in the Bible, whether it's the difference in numbers, names, or stories.

These aren't problems for people who understand the Bible as a collection of ancient text with historical and cultural context,

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