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April 28, 2025 · 12:31 · 16 min

Ten reasons, part 2: science vs faith, canon, and Constantine

Justifications three through five. On "science and faith are incompatible": a host argues Scripture is misread when forced to be a newspaper or a science textbook, illustrating with David's poetic claims in 2 Samuel 22 (God thundering from the sky) — true about God without requiring a physical event — and the hosts say science is the attempt to figure out how God did something, noting archaeology keeps deepening the Bible's accuracy. On "the history of science is religious superstition eradicated by reason": the guest, a former non-believer, says skeptics looking for reasons will find them, and a host urges interrogating the resurrection — "God's story can handle your interrogation" — since following Jesus costs enough that it had better be true. On "the Bible is a translation of a translation cobbled together by Constantine": the hosts compare it to reading Aristotle in translation, cite the Masoretic text against the Dead Sea Scrolls (Isaiah "dead on" across ~1,200 years), praise scholar transparency about hard words like hapax legomena, and correct the Nicaea story — Constantine did not pick the books; the council affirmed writings already trusted for centuries, drawing a boundary like a teacher's list of solid versus untrustworthy Revelation websites.

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