The Credibility of Evangelical Leaders | Molly Worthen

John and Molly delve into the problems facing traditional Christianity both from within the Church and from outside.
Molly Worthen is an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a freelance journalist. Her research focuses on North American religious and intellectual history. She writes about religion, politics, and higher education for the New York Times and has also contributed to the New Yorker, Slate, the American Prospect, Foreign Policy, and other publications.
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[@Serving.God.And.Humanity]

Outstanding and remarkable work John and Molly exposing and declaring the truth! 💯 God bless you! 💯✝️🕊🙏❤️🇨🇦🇬🇧🇦🇺🇮🇱🇺🇸

[@Medina-bk2fo]

Dear Listeners and Mr. Anderson: I think what the esteemed professor was saying, in the colloquial, is that the phrase "Intellectual evangelical" is already oxymoronic, in and of itself, but to add "leadership" to that phrase is to beg the question, leading them WHERE?

[@noelhausler2911]

The Bible the book Evangelicals possess and often don't read. The challenge to it;s historicity even comes from Israel from the University of Tel Aliv Israel Finkelstein an archaeologist who in his book The Bible Unearthed argues that the exodus and conquest did not happen as described in the Bible. 2 million Israeli s wandering the desert for 40 years would leave some evidence (eg graves, pottery?). In the book The Bible Tells Me So evangelical scholar Peter Enns in a chapter "Digging for Answers" says "archaeology and the Biblical Story don't line well at all" p.9.Another example "Jericho, the first of the towns to be razed in the book of Joshua... not only was Jericho minimally inhabited at best at the time, but it had no massive protective walls which means the biblical story of the walls of Jericho tumbling down is a problem -at least that's what a hundred years of digging there has shown us. p.59
The New Testament has also come in for more analysis. What I have noticed some evangelical scholar has gone and got advanced degrees in Biblical studies. They slowly become in some cases agnostic. The most notable one is Bart Ehrman an expert on manuscripts. More of that in Misquoting Jesus. Bart is is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.. He suggests to his students read the gospels horizontally. Do that with the resurrection stories and note the differences. One angel sitting on the rock (Matthew) One angel inside the tomb (mark), two angels inside the tomb (Luke) and just Mary arriving at tomb, no angels mentioned (John) . I found these scholars who have online presence have stimulated interest in the Bible as literature. Ehrman has even done a book Forged looking at books alleged to have been written by Peter or another disciple and found to be pseudonymous writing (false). I see the growth of youtube channels for study of ancient literature is exploding, not always for some faith promoting but very intellectually stimulating.