Against Critics: Examination of Christian Responses to the Critics of the Bible

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 From near the end of eighteenth century, the scholars’ mentality toward the
Bible was greatly changed. Before this time, thinking about the Bible was
under the authority of church doctrines. But the increasing dissatisfaction of
the way ecclesiastical authorities use the Bible, the growth of deism, and the
aggressions of enlightenment end to a new age of criticism. The critics
addressed the Bible as a human work and a product belonged to an age of
human history. They examined it carefully, and challenged almost all aspect
of it. Their views about the real authors of the book, its contradictory matters,
and historical, scientific and geographical errors cause its position to be
declined. Those Christians who considered the Bible as an infallible book
guiding humans to happiness tried to find out some general or particular
solutions to answer objections. Introducing the critical movement of the Bible
and its results, this paper will classify all solutions under four titles
superficiality of contradictions, the analogical interpretation, the original copy
and unlawfulness of criticizing the Bible.
 
 
 

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