The Sabbatical Series: Do You LITERALLY Take the Bible Literally?
The Alisa Childers Podcast
Alisa Childers
4.9 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
During my Sabbatical, I wanted to post some short podcasts that only reached a limited number of people several years ago. They are short answers to tough apologetics and theological questions. There are 30 in total that we will be releasing every day. I hope you enjoy. Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Elisa Childers podcast where we equip Christians to identify the core beliefs of historic Christianity, |
| 0:06.4 | discern its counterfeits and proclaim the gospel with clarity, kindness and truth and we are going to continue to do that even while I'm on sabbatical and not |
| 0:15.1 | recording full-length episodes until after the new year. But as we were going |
| 0:19.6 | through some old content we realized that there were some posts that only went out to a select group of |
| 0:24.2 | listeners and many of you, if you've been following the podcast for the past two or three years, |
| 0:29.5 | have not heard these posts and these are short answers to tough theological and apologetics questions. |
| 0:35.2 | So we're going to be bringing a new one to you every day during sabbatical. |
| 0:38.8 | Here's today's. In the purest sense of the word, literally no one takes the Bible literally. |
| 0:55.8 | No one, literally. |
| 0:57.8 | Don't get me wrong, most evangelicals would probably say they do in fact read the Bible literally. |
| 1:03.2 | According to a 2011 Gallup poll, 41% of Protestants make that claim, |
| 1:08.8 | but I suspect it all comes down to what they mean by the word literal. If someone asked me if I read |
| 1:14.7 | the Bible literally I would answer yes, but to read it literally doesn't mean I |
| 1:18.9 | take everything in it literally. This is why I'm always a little stunned when skeptics and |
| 1:24.0 | progressive Christians demean evangelicals by characterizing them as |
| 1:27.4 | literalists. I always wonder what do they think that means? Is it just another way of |
| 1:32.3 | saying fundamentalist? For example, What do they think that means? Is it just another way of saying, |
| 1:33.0 | Fundamentalist? |
| 1:34.4 | For example, if you Google, |
| 1:36.0 | take the Bible literally, the first article that pops up |
| 1:39.2 | is a piece written for the Huffington Post |
| 1:41.4 | by spiritual teacher Steve McSway. In it he asserts that fundamentalist |
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