Can We Trust the Bible

In this age of information gluttony, skepticism about the trustworthiness of communicated “facts” abounds. Is there anything true or reliable? Scrutiny applied to the bible is no different. Skeptics gloat that “the writers were pre-modern and unscientific,” “we don’t have access to the original manuscripts,” “it is riddled with internal contradictions and errors,” “it can’t be trusted as real history—but is a collection of perspectival reminiscences,” and so on. We will address some of these common critiques, showing how they fall short and why the Bible is reliable not only as history but as communication from a supernatural source.