This video asks Christians why they feel they have good reason to believe the Bible. The simple production and possible roughness in my voice are due to illness.
I'd said there would be a test, so here it is:
1) Give one reason scholars believe Aeschylus did not write Prometheus Bound.
2) Which two episodes from the Epic of Gilgamesh probably inspired the Garden of Eden story in Genesis?
3) Which two characters do scholars believe visited Achilles in the earliest versions of the Iliad?
4) Which Gospel was written last, and what was its primary function?
5) Do you doubt that the meter of Prometheus Bound differentiates it from most of Aeschylus' writings? If so, explain how you came to this conclusion.
6) Do you doubt that the Epic of Gilgamesh preceded and influenced the Bible? If so, explain how you came to this conclusion.
7) Do you doubt that Phoenix was a contrivance added to later additions to the Iliad? If so, explain how you came to this conclusion.
8) Do you doubt that the Gospels were written decades after Jesus' death by church leaders who drew on oral rumors to present their preferred theological views? If so, explain how you came to this conclusion.
9) If you believe (or ever did believe) that the Bible is accurate and was inspired by God, sum up how you arrived at this conclusion.
10) If you at any time responded to this video by thinking, "I can't prove the Bible's right, but you can't prove it's wrong," explain why the ambiguous origin of a religious text should cause a person to believe in it. Compare and contrast your position on other religious texts of ambiguous origin with that of the Bible.
