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I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST

Do We Need a PhD to Understand the Bible? | with Dr. John Ferrer

I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST

Dr. Frank Turek

Religion & Spirituality, Education, Christianity

4.85K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary


Do we need a Ph.D. in ancient Near East culture to understand what the book of Genesis really means? Some Bible scholars make it sound like we need to go way beyond just basic grammar skills to get a firm grasp of what is truly happening in the text. Why would God do that?
In the first half of this week's podcast episode, Frank continues the conversation from the past two weeks on Bible interpretation and the Book of Genesis and gives listeners a broad introduction to biblical hermeneutics. Then, CrossExamined speaker Dr. John Ferrer joins the program to do a deep dive into the interpretation of Genesis 1 and Exodus with a special emphasis on the striking differences between the Bible and Mesopotamian + Egyptian creation stories. Fascinating stuff! You'll walk away with two helpful acronyms to keep in mind whenever you read the Bible as well as a better understanding of how God chooses to reveal Himself to us.
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0:00.0

Does truth exist?

0:03.3

Because you have faith, does that make this book cool?

0:05.6

Does God exist?

0:07.4

So when someone says there is no truth,

0:09.8

if you apply the claim to itself, what should you say?

0:12.6

Is that true?

0:15.2

They don't think Christianity is true.

0:17.7

They're talked out of it.

0:20.0

You know why they're talked out of it?

0:22.0

Because they've never been talked into it.

0:24.2

Cross-exemining skeptical and atheistic views.

0:27.8

Welcome to Cross-exemining with Dr. Frank Turek.

0:32.8

Ladies and gentlemen, do you need a PhD in ancient Near East culture

0:39.2

to understand what the book of Genesis really means?

0:44.6

Because some people have written me after the interview we had with Dr. John Walton

0:50.8

that, wow, a lot of what Walton said requires some thought

0:56.6

and some knowledge beyond just basic grammar

1:00.2

to understand what's going on in Genesis.

1:03.2

So if we have to have a PhD in ancient Near East culture

1:07.2

to understand Genesis, most people in the world can't understand Genesis.

1:10.8

So what good is it?

1:11.8

Would God do that?

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