Defending the Bible

Are you looking for upholding the Bible

Or are you looking to uphold a particular interpretational viewpoint?​

Josh McDowell might have something concerning the first.
Answers in Genesis, or something of like ilk would probably cover the second.

I showed a video in late last month in our class called Fragments of Truth by Faithlife that dealt specifically with the assaults on the Bible from people like Bart Ehrman
Answering the question, “How reliable is our bible?”
Opened up a few eyes in our class! Made them think... too advanced for new believers imo.

Rob

 

I've been meaning to buy that DVD for a while, been busy as of late.

 

Defend the Bible? I would as soon defend a lion! Unchain it and it will defend itself.
- C.H. Spurgeon

 

If you are just talking about apologetics, then as already said, Josh McDowell has some good stuff.

On the other hand, if you are asking for help on defending a Bible version, there is no need. I tell my students that the Bible is a sword. You do not defend a sword. You unsheath it and go out and stab someone with it! I think all of the "Bible defenders" are barking up the wrong tree. They are wasting time. Our problem is not that we don't defend the Word of God, it is usually that we don't obey it and don't study it and don't use it.

All of those books by Ruckman, Riplinger, Waite, Grady, and others, defending the KJB, are a total waste of time IMO. It doesn't need defending. I have a little book (about 100 years old) with an awesome title: The Impregnable Rock of Holy Scripture, by British prime minister William Gladstone. (The book itself is not that great.) The Bible is truly impregnable. You can't destroy it, you can't stop it, you can't limit it, you can't take its power away.

 

You give ppl the scriptures and it will 1) cut them to doll rags and draw them to the Christ or 2) offend them, make them mad.

 

Amen!

I have several swords. They can either just lay there, or you can pick one up and stab the bad guy with it. If I'm close enough to an intruder with a gun, it'll be like my Dad used to say when I tried to grab his chicken leg: "Do you want to draw back a stub?"

I have a pamphlet in print, A Christian Philosophy of Self Defense. In it I tell several news stories of people who used the Gospel against a felon, only to see the felon either get saved or turn himself in.

 

Answers in Genesis great for Genesis and origins, Josh M for general bible questions, and would say that Gleason Archr did great work on problems so clled in the bible!

 

Apologetics = good, but not a sword. Until the Scripture is applied, no one gets saved. They might be convinced, but they are not saved.

I once counseled a Japanese man for a whole year. He has gone astray from his wife, who told him she would get a divorce unless he came for counseling, so he did. I convinced him sometime during that year that evolution was wrong, but he did not get saved until much later. He would have been a Creationist in Hell if he had not gotten saved.

 

I fully agree with you, as the Bible alone is the agent the Holy Spirit uses to save out the opeople of God, and while the evidences can help to strenghtened ones faith, can be used to address certain objections, are never to be used as a substitution for the scriptures themselves!

 

Any comments, Jordan? We'd like to know if you mean defending the Bible itself, or just apologetics in general.

 

The Bible defends itself, for when preched, spoken, shared with others, the Holy Spirit Himself speaks its divine authority!

 

THE ANVIL OF GOD`S WORD

Last eve I paused beside the blacksmith's door,
And heard the anvil ring the vesper chime;
Then looking in, I saw upon the floor,
Old hammers worn with beating years of time.

"How many anvils have you had," asked I,
"To wear and beat these hammers so?"
"Just one," said he, and then with twinkling eye,
"The anvil wears the hammers out, you know."

And so, I thought, the anvil of God's Word
For ages skeptic blows beat upon,
Yet though the noise of falling blows was heard,
The anvil is unharmed, the hammers gone.

--John Clifford