Is The Bible Intolerant? 3

Welcome to Every Thought Captive.  I’m Phil Steiger, pastor at Quail Lake Community Church.

I think we have all heard people attack the Christian faith by saying we can’t trust the Bible because it has been changed so often over the centuries.  This slogan finds a great deal of popular support in books and movies like “The Da Vinci Code.”  The only problem with it is that there is no evidence for these alleged changes.

In her very readable book, “Is the Bible Intolerant?” Amy Orr-Ewing details the history of the Bible and what archeology knows about the ancient manuscripts.  As it turns out, we have a large number of ancient texts of the Bible, and this means we can scrutinize the historical development of Scripture.  There are changes through time, but they are almost all spelling and grammar changes.  The truth about the Bible is that there is literally no evidence of any real change over time.  The Bible you buy and read today is the same book that was read by Paul and Peter.

This has been Every Thought Captive, a Christian worldview minute sponsored by Quail Lake Community Church.  For more information, please visit quaillake.org