Introduction Those who deny the authority and reliability of Scripture often appeal to discrepancies between the works that comprise the volume that is colloquially referred to as the Bible. One of the most well known critics of Scripture is the apostate known as Bart Ehrman. What is interesting is that Ehrman has all of the bona fides of a believing scholar having begun at fundamentalist and conservative institutions like Moody Bible Institute, before moving on to Wheaton College, before attending Princeton Theological under the tutelage of the immanent conservative biblical scholar Bruce Metzger. In his apostasy, which he attaches to the problem of evil, he has spent a great deal of time digging into discrepancies and difficulties between the gospels, producing a number of popular-level books severly criticizing believing Christians. In his very popular 2009 book Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don't Know About Them), Bart Ehrman

Of Binary Mindsets Spectrums seems to be ideologocial flavor-of-the-month in language today as binaries are on the outs. And it’s clear that Randal doesn’t like binaries, complaining that such thinking, “ is characteristic of conservative evangelicalism and fundamentalism. According to that mindset, the world is divided into stark categories of good and evil, right and wrong, light and darkness, truth and error .”[ 1 ] This statement should be kept in mind since Rauser is himself engaged in binary thinking: his position is what is right , Childers is that which is wrong . If this was not the case, why the need to write the book? For Part 1 , Part 2 That’s not to say that I entirely agree with Childers, nor is it to say that I entirely disagree with Rauser. However it does assume that there are certain clear “rights and wrongs” and that both can be participating in them. However, I would like to suggest that rather than asking, what is the historically orthodox position, one tha