Part 3 of an ongoing series covering the 'Skeptics Annotated Bible' by Steve Wells.
Evangelical (Atheist) Eisegesis: ‘The Skeptics Annotated Bible’ (#3)
Bart Ehrman on Why He (an Atheist) Teaches the Bible
Over at his blog, biblical scholar Bart Ehrman addressed a question asked of him by a parent wondering why he should send his son to the university where Ehrman teaches to take his class on the Bible if Ehrman doesn't actually believe in the book about which he is teaching. As Ehrman points out, going... Continue Reading →
A Conversation with Non-Alchemist
Yesterday evening I had the privilege of speaking with @AlchemistNon over on his YouTube channel. Topics included deconversion, inerrancy, contradictions in the Bible, philosophy of religion, and more. For those unfamiliar with @AlchemistNon, he is an agnostic who has had a similar trajectory religiously as I have had (minus the KJV Onlyism, the stint at... Continue Reading →
The God of Conservative Christianity (Probably) Doesn’t Exist: AlchemistNon’s Argument
Last month, blogger @AlchemistNon wrote a piece entitled "Is Yahweh a Perfect Being?" in which he argues that the god of conservative Christianity does not exist. The deductive argument he puts forward (based on an argument offered by Christian apologist Randal Rauser in a devil's-advocate debate) is as follows: If God exists, he is perfectly... Continue Reading →
Evangelical (Atheist) Eisegesis: Samson and the Lion
For similar posts, see "Evangelical (Atheist) Eisegesis." It seems like social media these days is little more than memes, and if you’re getting your Bible from memes, well, you should expect problems. Here is a recent one that appeared on Twitter. I first came across this meme after it had been shared by a few... Continue Reading →
Evangelical (Atheist) Eisegesis: Unicorns in the Bible
For similar posts, see "Evangelical (Atheist) Eisegesis." I am an atheist. This means that I do not believe there are any gods in existence. Am I 100% certain about this? No. But on balance I find it more likely than not that the god of the so-called Abrahamic religions, the various deities of Greco-Roman lore,... Continue Reading →
Bart Ehrman: Apocalypticism and Human Suffering
Bart D. Ehrman, Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2020), 106-107. It [i.e. suffering] would make sense if there were no God. Or if there were many gods, some of whom were nasty. But how can it make sense if there is only one God who is truly... Continue Reading →
Josh Bowen’s Interview of John Collins on Violence in the Bible
Over on the Digital Hammurabi YouTube Channel, Josh Bowen (PhD, John Hopkins University) interviewed renowned biblical scholar John J. Collins (PhD, Harvard University) on the subject of violence in the Hebrew Bible. Collins is the author of multiple books including the phenomenal textbook The Hebrew Bible: An Introduction which is in its third edition. Bowen... Continue Reading →
Evangelical (Atheist) Eisegesis: ‘The Skeptics Annotated Bible’ (#2)
For more posts in this series, "Evangelical (Atheist) Eisegesis." As is so often the case with atheistic readings of biblical texts, the annotations of Steve Wells in his Skeptic’s Annotated Bible are bewildering. At times, SAB gets things precisely correct, like when it decries what amounts to divinely sanctioned marital rape in Deuteronomy 21:10-14. Wells summarizes the passage by... Continue Reading →
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