Why you should become a Bible-believing anarchist
who also believes the universe was created around 4004 B.C.
You may have heard the claim that nobody can know for sure what the Bible is even saying. It's just a mish-mosh of legends and fables which have been re-written and mistranslated over the centuries.
This is 100% false. The Bible is clear, and those who copied it over the centuries were careful to copy every letter accurately. They believed the Scriptures were the Word of God, not "the telephone game." Given its massive size (750,000 words) and long transmission timeline (thousands of years), the Bible is the most accurately transmitted document in human history.
2. The Supernatural Origin of the Bible
Many people think of the Bible as "primitive." They make an analogy with "The Telephone Game," and suggest that the Bible is full of mis-copied and mis-translated myths and legends. This picture is 180° opposite the facts.
3. Henning Graf Reventlow, The Authority of the Bible and the Rise of the Modern World.
What makes "the modern world" "modern" is not "science," but secularism and materialism. Especially in the area of law: no longer do governments even pretend to be Christian. The modern secularist does not want a distant God telling him what to do, and especially doesn't want governments which are nearer and closer than God making laws that infringe on the ability of the modern secularist to be his own god. But God is not distant, and secularists are happy when "their" government is useful to them to impose secularism on Christians.
Resource #5: The Supernatural Origin of the Bible
A popular argument against the authority of the Bible is the "Telephone Game" argument: that the text of the Bible has been repeatedly changed over the last few thousand years, and we really have no way of knowing what the Prophets or the Apostles actually wrote.
The truth is 180° in the opposite direction. The Bible is the most accurately transmitted document in human history. Biblical copyists were OCD about copying the Bible accurately. They did not have a "liberal" attitude toward the text. And the great irony is that they accurately copied a book which portrayed them as faithless rebellious sinners. It is ironic -- and profoundly theologically true -- that the Bible is the most "anti-semitic" book in the history of the human race. The Jews had every reason to change the text to make themselves (or their nation) look better, but the "anti-Israelite" text has remained unchanged over the centuries.
These arguments against the Bible presuppose in advance that evolution is true, and the Bible is merely the product of evolutionary forces. Evolution is believed to be true because it relieves us of any obligation to obey the Bible.
"Higher Criticism" arose in England in the late seventeenth century as a reaction to the use of the Old Testament as a guide for civil law. Public schools were formed in America in order to teach the Bible, because the Bible was the basis of all colonial laws.
Fundamental Agreement of the Colony of New Haven, Connecticut, 1639
Agreement; We all agree that the scriptures hold forth a perfect rule for the direction and government of all men in duties which they are to perform to God and to man, as well in families and commonwealth as in matters of the church; so likewise in all public officers which concern civil order, as choice of magistrates and officers, making and repealing laws, dividing allotments of inheritance, and all things of like nature, we will, all of us, be ordered by the rules which the scripture holds forth; and we agree that such persons may be entrusted with such matters of government as are described in Exodus 18:21 and Deuteronomy 1:13 with Deuteronomy 17:15 and 1 Corinthians 6:1, 6 & 7….
Note: being an "archist" like "the kings of the gentiles" is inconsistent with the teachings of Jesus (see above). America was founded by fundamentalist archists. The Puritans believed the Bible was the Word of God, but also believed that Aristotle and Plato should be followed in civil matters. This position is logically contradictory and politically unstable. Atheistic anarchists oppose Christian civilization based on antinomian depravity, but one can favor Christian civilization but oppose the coercive imposition of someone's version of Christian civilization by archists in "civil government."
Higher criticism of the Bible was an important tool in the humanists' war against Christian civilization. See
Resource #6: Henning Graf Reventlow, The Authority of the Bible and the Rise of the Modern World.
That's a large tome. You can get the "reader's digest" version here: The Hoax of Higher Criticism.
Let's follow the lead of the co-founder of the Harvard Law School, author of a book entitled Testimony of the Evangelists, Simon Greenleaf (1783-1853). Greenleaf was one of the world's leading experts on the laws of evidence. His treatise on the laws of evidence was in every law school and Judge's Chambers in America at that time. He originally set out to disprove the biblical testimony concerning the resurrection of Jesus Christ, "certain that a careful examination of the internal witness of the Gospels would dispel all the myths at the heart of Christianity. But this legal scholar came to the conclusion that the witnesses were reliable, and that the resurrection did in fact happen." Saying the resurrection was legally a historical fact is not the same thing as simply saying "The Bible sez so."