Should You Interpret the Bible Literally?

I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST

Dr. Frank Turek

Religion & Spirituality, Education, Christianity

4.8 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Should we interpret the Bible literally? One of our recent shows has stirred up a hornet's nest with regard to that question! Just HOW do we interpret the Bible? Can something be true, but not expressed literally? And if that's the case, why would God make things so difficult for us to figure out?
On this week's podcast episode, Frank responds to a listener’s question that relates to the discussion he had with Dr. John Walton last week on the right way to interpret Genesis. He does a deep dive into Genesis 1:1 and explains that even though everything in the Bible is literally true, not everything in the Bible is expressed literally. He also walks listeners through a fun + educational thought experiment and shares some of the most popular Hebrew and Greek idioms we find in the Bible. If you (or the people you disciple) ever wished that the Bible had an EASY button you need to take a listen, because we might just change your mind!
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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	Should you interpret the Bible literally?
0:38.4	One of our recent shows has stirred up a hornet's nest
0:43.8	with regard to that question.
0:45.8	Just how do we interpret the Bible?
0:47.8	Are we supposed to interpret everything in the Bible literally?
0:51.8	Is that what God intended?
0:54.8	Can something be true but not expressed literally?
1:00.8	How are we supposed to interpret the text?
1:05.0	And the way we'll introduce this is from a question that was sent in by Richard.
1:13.4	And this relates to the podcast we did a couple of weeks ago with Dr. John Walton.
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