Is the Bible Irrelevant and Outdated?
The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast
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🗓️ 24 March 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The Bible is under attack more than ever before. Are there good reasons we should continue to look to the Bible as a guide? Is it an irrelevant, sexist, racist, and boring book? J. Warner answers these questions in this episode of the NRBtv Cold-Case Christianity Broadcast.
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| 0:00.0 | J. Warner Wallace is a cold-case homicide detective who's been investigating cold-case murders |
| 0:07.2 | in Los Angeles County for over a decade. |
| 0:09.5 | His work has been featured on Fox News, Date Line, and Core TV. |
| 0:12.8 | Now, we join him as he applies his investigative skills to making a case for Christianity. |
| 0:18.5 | Thanks for joining us at cold-case Christianity, I'm J. Warner Wallace. |
| 0:28.0 | Are you somebody who looks to the Bible as a source of guidance? |
| 0:30.8 | Like you might say that this is your worldview is grounded in biblical teaching? |
| 0:35.0 | For a lot of Christians, I think they would say that, even though they may not really open |
| 0:37.9 | the Bible to see what it teaches, aside from that, they would say that the Bible holds |
| 0:41.6 | a place of high regard. |
| 0:42.9 | But a lot of people would say, no, actually, it's entirely irrelevant to today. |
| 0:47.2 | Culture has changed, morals have changed, our social condition has changed, and people |
| 0:51.2 | who wrote it in Bible times, those writers are ancient herdsmen, primitives, ancients |
| 0:56.0 | that didn't know anything about psychology, didn't know anything about modern issues. |
| 1:00.2 | Therefore, nothing that really had to say is still relevant to us today. |
| 1:04.8 | I mean, a lot of these folks would argue that the hot topic issues that we find so important |
| 1:09.2 | in our culture today, a lot of times you would say, well, did Jesus really ever say anything about |
| 1:13.5 | that? Did anybody really talk, and if any writer on the Bible did say something about it, |
| 1:18.5 | it certainly seems like it's rooted in an ancient racist, sexist, homophobic period of time. |
| 1:26.0 | The Bible, they would say, is not relevant. |
| 1:28.8 | So, how do we respond to that in a quick manner? |
| 1:32.7 | Well, today, this show, and we're going to show you how to do that, and I'm just going to, |
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