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Objections to Believing the Bible Like Jesus Believed It (and Answers )
Objection 1 Maybe Jesus used Scripture as nonliteral meaning to understand non-historical events for illustrative purposes only. (Answer: Maybe the world is flat! If you ignore enough evidence.)
Virkler brings up Matt 12:41 for defense here, but then uses, of all things, the modernists, Alexandrian, philosophical, allegorical tainted RSV which says 'SOMETHING greater than Jonah is here' (also NASB rendering) rather than the Holy Bible rendering “A greater than Jonah is here.” Virkler, writing on hermeneutics, should surely know better than use a tainted bible!
Objection 2 Maybe Jesus knew of the errors in Scripture but wanted to accommodate rather than confront the unscientific views of that time. (Answer: That Jesus was a liar and deceiver is an infidel's maybe.)
Objection 3 Maybe Jesus' 'self-emptying' (kenosis1) left him ignorant of the errors in Scripture. (Answer: That Jesus was ignorant is an infidel's maybe!)