Misquoting Jesus/Truth: What do we do with biblical problems in youth work/ministry?
Just listened to yet another great podcast from The Nick and Josh Podcast with Dr. Timothy Paul Jones. Jones has got a book out called Misquoting Truth, its a response to Bart D. Ehrman book Misquoting Jesus. I’ve not heard of Ehrman before but the interview raised a lot of questions that I have wrestled with about Bible, like sections being added at much later dates (like the story of the woman caught in adultery, added much later…did it happen or not). Jones says is that the church needs to address these issues within our bibles.
- So what do we do with these problems as youth ministers/worker?
- Do we tell our young people that our bibles have got some very significant issues, miss translations and manipulated texts?
- Do we wrestle together with these issues?
- Or do we feel that we should protect young Christians from these problems and let them deal with them at a later date?
If we don’t, I feel, we will only set young people up for problem’s down the line, a little like parents that never talk to there children about sex, drugs rock and roll or drinking eventually these issues raise their head and have to be dealt with.
How Sweet!
This has been my case in regards to biblical infallibility and inerrancy and my biblical hermeneutic. I think that that is why so many people ‘fall away’ or have crisis of faith especially when studying theology for the first time because they may have grown up with the idea that the bible just came miraculously into existence and is infallible/inerrant. Yet if we tackle these issues in an intelligent way with young Christians now, they want be shocks to find that the bible we hold in our hands has got many problems.
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- 03.04.08 / 2pm
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