14 Things Bible Skeptics Talk About
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Is The Bible The Truth?
Apologetics is hard work, but well worth it. If only to convince oneself of how some stuff hang together.
As ex-atheists, we started off like most other people – looking around … We were on then-Twitter, and when seeing something we knew nothing about, we followed that thread by researching the topic to see what we could find. We looked at everything, believed nothing.
Our approach was to remain open-minded to all the info we saw, gather info, look at everything, and believe nothing. Eventually only one coherent picture emerged.
Below are some of the questions that kept us very busy. We understand how these topics can lead one to dismiss the Bible as a complete myth and/or fabrication.
How Would You Handle These Topics If They Came Up?
This list dips into historical and textual criticism – 14 things that Bible skeptics talk about. The list focuses some of the thorny issues that skeptics and/or atheists and/or Annunaki-believers often raise, but which believers avoid “like the plague” because they simply don’t know how to deal with them.
Code Of Hammurabi
Enuma Elish
A Mesopotamian creation myth tablet.
It tells of how the god “Anshar” summoned the other gods for a banquet to celebrate Marduk as “champion” after defeating Tiamat in primordial chaos – by the way, this really should remind you of Greek and Roman mythology. Be that as it may, here is a link to a translation of the tablet.
Point is, ALL cultures had creation and flood stories, however, just because an era is earlier than the Bible era and its writing, does NOT mean their versions are accurate. All it is, is a narrative of history from their point of view.
Babylonian Creation Myths
“For much of the last half of the twentieth century, W. G. Lambert devoted much of his research energy and effort to the study of Babylonian texts dealing with Mesopotamian ideas regarding creation, including especially Enuma Elish. This volume (free download here) which appeared almost exactly 2 years after Lambert’s death, distills a lifetime of learning by the world’s foremost expert on these texts. Lambert provides a full transliteration and translation of the 7 tablets of Enuma Elish, based on the known exemplars, as well as coverage of a number of other texts that bear on, or are thought to bear on, Mesopotamian notions of the origin of the world, mankind, and the gods. New editions of seventeen additional “creation tales” are provided, including “Enmesharra’s Defeat,” “Enki and Ninmah,” “The Slaying of Labbu,” and “The Theogony of Dunnu.”
“Much more might be said about this magnum opus, but suffice it to say in conclusion that just as Professor Lambert’s Babylonian Wisdom Literature enables a generation of students to understand better the Hebrew books of Job, Proverbs and Qoheleth, so his Babylonian Creation Myths will help future generations of students understand better the creation-themed texts in Genesis, Job, the Psalter and the Prophets. Students around the world will find it difficult to measure their depth of gratitude not only for this volume but also that Professor Lambert lived long enough to complete it.”
A Little Help With Bible Apologetics
Here is an excellent discussion on how a better understanding of Michael Heiser’s Unseen Realm can help you with Bible apologetics.
Below a video on some of the things that theologians won’t or can’t answer for you.
