Welcome to ThinkBiblically, Conversations on Faith and Culture, a podcast from Talbot School

Theology at Biola University.

I'm your host Scott Ray, Dean of Faculty and Professor of Christian Ethics.

And I'm your co-host, Sean McDowell, Professor of Apologetics.

We're here with our special guest, Dr. Michael Byrd, from, as I would say, the deep, deep south or the way way down under coming to us from Australia today

Michael is academic dean and lecturer in theology at Ridley College in Melbourne, Australia, and he has come out with a fascinating

new book that we want our listeners to be aware of.

It's called Seven Things I Wish Christians New about the Bible.

It's a terrific introduction not only for people

who are not super familiar with the Bible,

but also it digs deeply into some really significant areas that have, I think, the possibility of

much more advanced study for people who want to go there.

So Mike, happy to have you with us.

Welcome and great to have you on with us.

It's great to be with you Scott and Sean.

Tell it Mike what have you seen in churches and among students that moved you to write this book because you've written

on a ton of subjects in biblical studies and theology. Why this and why now?

Several reasons.

I found you get some recurring misconceptions, you get some recurring anxieties, and you get some repeated, how can I put it, like conspiracy theories

about the Bible and these things keep coming up you know year after year and so I wanted to

write something that addressed frequent questions frequent misunderstandings and

the frequent weird accusations that people make about the Bible.

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