03-09-2019, 09:24 AM
(03-04-2019, 08:12 AM)Ed Hurst Wrote: The other thing we reject from the likes of Rational Wiki is their cynical rejection of the underlying story told by Scripture. There is a vast wealth of garbage scholarship that treats the various books of the Bible as documents that were highly edited rather late in Israeli history to make them conform to a very late theological viewpoint. What's funny is this same brand of scholarship insists on treating the Bible worse than other scriptures from the ANE. These "Bible scholars" act as if the main actors in the Bible were some of the worst pagans, and that Jesus was just a man of His times, not really the Son of God. In college we used to call these folks "neo-orthodox" but their stuff wasn't new and it wasn't orthodox. Their work is still highly influential in Western churches today.
Of course; their assessment, to be fair to them, is in alignment with a rationalist philosophy. It's consistent. That's about as positive as I can get about the situation. There's no way they (or anyone, really) could believe the same things we do without that divine intervention.