I'm back!! A new series of blogs coming your way . . .

I took a break over the holidays, but I want to explore in the upcoming blogs an important issue. This spring at our church we are going to be reading a book for our apologetics class – Questioning the Bible: 11 Major Challenges to the Bible's Authority by Jonathan Morrow. We're living at a time when the Bible is under attack from a lot of different directions, so the author takes on the most common challenges. I'd like to use several blogs going through this important book.

In the intro Morrow talks about some of the claims raised against the Bible. For example, we don't have the originals of any of the books of the New Testament, so how can we trust it. Or, scribes along the way deliberately changed the New Testament manuscripts so that we can no longer know what the original authors of Scripture wrote. Or, the Bible's authors are not who we think they are with the result that many of the New Testament books are forgeries. Then there's this – the Bible is anti-intellectual and unscientific. Or how about this one – the Bible is full of contradictions and historical inaccuracies.

The author says we live in a time when people have questions about life but no place to find answers. One person put it this way:

"Very many emerging adults simply don't know how to think about things, what is right, what is deserving for them to devote their lives to. On such matters, they are often   simply paralyzed, wishing they could be more definite, wanting to move forward, but      simply not knowing how they might possibly know anything worthy of conviction and dedication. Instead, very many emerging adults exist in a state of basic indecision, confusion, and fuzziness. The world they have inherited, as best they can make sense of it, has told them that real knowledge is impossible and genuine values are illusions."

Of course, this is very discouraging, but Morrow believes the Bible can provide the answers we are all looking for. But first we have to decide if the Bible can survive the attacks on it. That's what his book will be all about. Hope you enjoy these blogs coming up.