By C. Dennis Mckinsey

This significant new quantity is the main complete critique of the Bible ever written.

Author C. Dennis McKinsey believes that americans have merely noticeable or heard the great things concerning the Bible, with none publicity to its many shortcomings. McKinsey argues that the inability of feedback of biblical writings has wrongly affected hundreds of thousands of individuals of their ideals, permitting many to think the Bible to be the infallible notice of God. He continues that it really is turning into valuable not just that the Bible's inadequacies be uncovered, yet that its adverse teachings be corrected.

McKinsey thinks the Bible is a deceptively misguided conglomeration of mythology and folklore masquerading as a sound photograph of ancient fact. within the Encyclopedia of Biblical Errancy, McKinsey strives to inform either the nice and the undesirable of biblical writings with the main entire and thoroughly-researched expos? of the Bible's many error, contradictions, and fallacies. Loaded with hundreds of thousands of biblical citations, The Encyclopedia of Biblical Errancy vividly proves the Bible to be its personal worst enemy.

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Bob Jones III, who ori&inally founded the university, knew it when he wrote it. Well, at least one fundamentalist has managed to burst through the wall of fundamentalist propaganda. Interpretation An extremely important topic when discussing the Bible is the question of how to interpret it. Any Bible analyst would be remiss if he failed to provide a reasonably comprehensive explanation of the rules that should be followed while interpreting the Bible. According to Dallas Theological Seminary professor Dwight Pentecost, in his book Things to Come, A Study in Biblical Eschatology, "When the plain sense of Scripture makes common sense, seek no other sense; therefore, take every word at its primary, ordinary, usual literal meaning unless the facts of the immediate context studied in the light of related passages and fundamental truths indicate clearly otherwise" (page 42).

In point of fact, they have no way of substantiating I I I· I I The Composition of the Bible 31 a guarantee of that kind. They are wishing and hoping while projecting an aura of certainty. It's all front and facade. Greek and Hebrew Another strategy of apologists is rather interesting. The Bible's defenders will often say that you have to go back to the original Greek. You have to know Greek and Hebrew. The obvious retort is that if that is true, then why do scholars who know Greek and Hebrew fluently still disagree, often strongly.

The record of history validates our Lord's words. For the Jews have survived despite the Torquemadas, the Hitlers ... " Several errors are apparent in Martin's train of thought. First, he conveniently ignores the obvious fact that if the word should have been translated "race" rather than "&eneration," then scores of scholars are incompetent translators. 46 THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL ERRANCY Second, can Martin name one place in the entire Bible where the word genea is translated as "race" or "Jews" rather than "generation"?

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