Ep.93 - The Bible is Historical Fiction - Really? w/ Bill Mounce

Theology for the Curious

Love it or struggle with it, research suggests that the Bible continues to be the world’s best-selling book, registering around 100 million copies sold every year!

But what’s the attraction?

For millennia people of all walks and persuasions have wrestled with the bibles’s reliability. Who wrote it? Why were some books included and others rejected? What was the criteria and who got to make the decisions? How reliable is its content? Can we trust the authenticity of its characters and stories; weren’t they all just parables, examples, and metaphors?

And what about the various translations (last count listed some 4,000 translation projects in progress)? How reliably accurate are they, and how can we truly trust that key content hasn’t been altered or replaced?

In this final episode of the REALLY series, Pete and the Curious team are joined by Bill Mounce. Bill is a New Testament Greek scholar with over 40 years experience, who wrote the best-selling, ‘Basics of Biblical Greek’; and also worked as part of the team that crafted the very popular NIV and ESV versions of the bible.
Further Reading

We’ve listed some views below for you to read and ponder…

How do we know we can trust the Bible? - EvangelicalMagazine.com

How accurate is the Bible? - Kenboa.org

Is the Bible Trustworthy? - Crosswalk.com
What we’re reading?

As a new little feature to our notes, we are adding the book or books that we’ve been browsing and reading as part of this episode. So here goes. This week we’ve been reflecting on;

William D. Mounce ― Why I Trust The Bible

(Bill’s book is a great way to launch into the subject)
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