Why I Trust the Bible: Answers to Real Questions and Doubts People Have about the Bible

Why I Trust the Bible: Answers to Real Questions and Doubts People Have about the Bible

by William D. Mounce
Why I Trust the Bible: Answers to Real Questions and Doubts People Have about the Bible

Why I Trust the Bible: Answers to Real Questions and Doubts People Have about the Bible

by William D. Mounce

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Overview

A Clear Guide to Help Readers Understand Why They Can Trust the Bible

We are often told we can no longer assume that the Bible is trustworthy. From social media memes to popular scholarship, so many attacks have been launched on the believability of Scripture that many have serious questions about the Bible, such as:

  • Did Jesus actually live?
  • Did the biblical writers invent their message?
  • How can we trust the gospels since they were written so long after Jesus lived?
  • How can we believe a Bible that is full of internal contradictions with itself and external contradictions with science?
  • Aren't the biblical manuscripts we have just copies of copies that are so corrupted they don't represent what the original authors wrote?
  • Why should we believe the books that are in the Bible, since many good ones were left out, like the Gospel of Thomas?
  • Why trust the Bible when there are so many contradictory translations of it?

If you find yourself unable to answer questions such as these, but wanting to, Why I Trust the Bible by eminent Bible scholar and translator William Mounce is for you. These questions and more are discussed and answered in a reasoned, definitive, and winsome way.

The truth is that the Bible is better attested and more defensible today than it ever has been. Questions about the Bible are perhaps the most significant challenge confronting Christian faith today, but they can be answered well and in a way which will lead to a deeper appreciation for the truth and ongoing relevance of the Bible.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780310109952
Publisher: Zondervan
Publication date: 09/14/2021
Sold by: HarperCollins Publishing
Format: eBook
Pages: 288
Sales rank: 55,446
File size: 645 KB

About the Author

William D. Mounce (PhD, Aberdeen University) lives as a writer in Washougal, Washington. He is the President of BiblicalTraining.org, a non-profit organization offering world-class educational resources for discipleship in the local church. See BillMounce.com for more information. Formerly he was a preaching pastor, and prior to that a professor of New Testament and director of the Greek Program at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He is the author of the bestselling Greek textbook, Basics of Biblical Greek, and many other resources. He was the New Testament chair of the English Standard Version translation of the Bible, and is serving on the NIV translation committee.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations xi

Preface xiii

The Historical Jesus

1 Jesus before the Gospels 3

2 Jesus of the Gospels 20

Contradictions

3 Contradictions in the Bible 45

4 Digging Deeper into Apparent Contradictions 67

The Canon

5 Why Do We Have the Twenty-Seven Books in the New Testament? 95

6 Digging Deeper into the Canon 113

Textual Criticism

7 Are the Greek Texts Hopelessly Corrupt? 129

8 Digging Deeper into Textual Criticism 143

9 Digging Much Deeper into Textual Criticism 161

Translations

10 Translation Theory 195

11 Digging Deeper into Translation 210

The Old Testament

12 The Character of God 229

13 The Historicity of the Old Testament 249

Conclusion: Why I Trust the Bible 267

General Bibliography 271

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