Recommended Book Review: When Critics Ask: A Popular Handbook on Bible Difficulties. Norman Geisler and Thomas Howe

 

Useful handbook which deals with basics of apologetics, important notes to consider while studying the Bible, a number of difficult questions collection from every books of the Bible and their short, sweet and to the point responses. 

The book enlists and exaggerates several Mistakes critics often make while studying the Bible. These can also be a good guideline for us while studying and analyzing the Bible:

Mistake 1: Assuming that the Unexplained Is Not Explainable.

Mistake 2: Presuming the Bible Guilty Until Proven Innocent.

Mistake 3: Confusing Our Fallible Interpretations with God’s Infallible Revelation.

Mistake 4: Failing to Understand the Context of the Passage.

Mistake 5: Neglecting to Interpret Difficult Passages in the Light of Clear Ones.

Mistake 6: Basing a Teaching on an Obscure Passage.

Mistake 7: Forgetting that the Bible Is a Human Book with Human Characteristics.

Mistake 8: Assuming that a Partial Report is a False Report.

Mistake 9: Demanding that NT Citations of the OT Always Be Exact Quotations.

Mistake 10: Assuming that Divergent Accounts Are False Ones.

Mistake 11: Presuming that the Bible Approves of All it Records.

Mistake 12: Forgetting that the Bible Uses Non-technical, Everyday Language.

Mistake 13: Assuming that Round Numbers Are False.

Mistake 14: Neglecting to Note that the Bible Uses Different Literary Devices.

Mistake 15: Forgetting that Only the Original Text, Not Every Copy of Scripture, Is

without Error.

Mistake 16: Confusing General Statements with Universal Ones.

Mistake 17: Forgetting that Later Revelation Supersedes Previous Revelation.

The book then discusses credible solution to difficult passages from Genesis to Revelation. This can help us understanding theology more better. 

By: Norman L. Geisler and Thomas Howe

Genre: Understanding the Bible

Review: Useful for all Christians