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So about 15 years ago, I was at home watching a YouTube video and there's a famous atheist

written lots of books and I've read two or three of his books actually,

listed his podcast and I was watching him on YouTube, he's in a university setting and he's going

on and on and on about the absurdity of Christianity. And this wasn't like the title of his talk,

but basically that was what it was about. And as I listened, and this was a really defining moment

for me, caused me to shift some things in terms of not my belief, but in terms of my approach to

how I preach and teach and some of the language I use, it occurred to me as I listened to him

that his entire talk was based on an assumption, a false assumption, but on an assumption that many

Christians hold and many, in fact, most evangelical Christians hold, the one I was raised on.

And the assumption was a false assumption, but again, basically his whole talk was based

on the assumption that the foundation of our faith, what makes Christianity viable, what makes

Christianity sustainable and plausible, that the foundation of the Christian faith is a Bible

without any errors or to use the modern term and an errant Bible. That was his assumption.

So his argument went, hey, look at all these errors in the Bible and he was pointing out historical

errors and scientific errors and just some absurd things that were in the Old Testament in particular

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