Rewind: The Bible’s Authority is a Circular Argument
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Rapp Report Daily episode 39 Many atheists try to make the claim that the Bible’s authority is a circular argument. They believe that Christians make the argument that the Bible is an authority because the Bible says it is an authority. However, that is not the argument we make. The reason the Bible is an...
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. Many atheists give an argument that we as Christians have a circular argument when it comes to the authority of the
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- Bible. The way they argue, in their way of thinking, that we argue is that we claim that the
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- Bible is true because the Bible says it's true. Now, there may be some
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- Christians that try to argue that the Bible claims it's true and therefore it is true. That would be a circular argument.
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- By the way, almost all arguments in philosophy end up getting down to a circular argument.
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- The question is, is it viciously circular or not? That's for a topic for another day. However, the issue here that we have to address is, what is the argument that we as Christians should be making for the authority of the
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- Bible? It is not that the Bible is true because it says it's true.
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- No, in fact, what we should be arguing is, the Bible is true because its author cannot lie.
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- By the virtue of the fact that the author of the Bible, God Almighty, cannot lie, therefore what he says has to be truthful and therefore can't be an error.
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- If there are no errors, it is by default true and authoritative.
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- That's a logical argument that is not circular and that's the argument we should give. If you have questions you want us to answer, you can email us at info at strivingforeternity .org.
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