“Is that really reasonable, though, to give the Bible the benefit of the doubt?” What does that prove - that the Bible has an error or Geisler is ignorant? I’d give the benefit of the doubt to the Bible, because of the eight hundred allegations I’ve studied, I haven’t found one single error in the Bible, but I’ve found a lot of errors by the critics.” I’m sure some sharp critic could say to me, ‘What about this issue?’ and even though I’ve done a forty-year study of these things, I wouldn’t be able to answer him. “For example, assuming the unexplained is unexplainable. A few years ago I coauthored a book called When Critics Ask, which devotes nearly six hundred pages to setting the record straight.1 All I can tell you is that in my experience when critics raise these objections, they invariably violate one of seventeen principles for interpreting Scripture.” “I have a list of about eight hundred of them. “I’ve made a hobby of collecting alleged discrepancies, inaccuracies, and conflicting statements in the Bible,” he said. It was an issue he had spent a lifetime studying. When I asked about alleged contradictions in the Bible, Geisler leaned back in his chair and smiled. What a fantastic discussion to share with a friend who is seeking to know the truth today! The Case for Faith: Coping with ContradictionsĮditor’s Note: In this excerpt of The Case for Faith, Lee Strobel is having a theological debate with Norman Geisler, president of Southern Evangelical Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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