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Original airdate: Wednesday, September 11, 2019
*** SHOW NOTES (not a transcript) ***
Lead:
This tactic, used against the Bible, is weak. Be on the lookout.
Intro:
Facebook reminded me that two years ago today I was in a thrift store with a friend, something that she and I enjoyed doing together, and I had taken a picture of a sign with a bunch of quips, some of which were more clever than usual. One of them employed a malapropism — a wrong word that sounds kinda like the right word — and this tickled my funny bone: “If attacked by a mob of clowns, go for the juggler.”
That my friends, might not be the best analogy for our word of the day, but you’ll see how it ties together in a way that I hope will be helpful.
First, though, we have a longer chunk of reading to get through, and before we get started, I just want to point out a tool that historians and Christian casemakers use. The first thing we’ll read is Jesus predicting the destruction of the temple, and we know that that happened in 70AD, and this gives us a clue that the book of Mark was written before that time — otherwise he’d probably have mentioned it as a historical event like the resurrection. I’m not going to go into the dating of the book of Mark here, I just wanted to point out little ways to spot clues.
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Bible Reading (modified Bible Project plan):
Passage: Mark 13-14
Translation: NET (New English Translation)
Verses: 109
Words: ~2306
Think & Reflect:
Argument from silence (Lat. argumentum e silentio). The deduction from the absence of any known reference to a subject in the extant writings of a particular author that he was ignorant of it. Many 19th-cent. critics of historic Christianity carried it to extreme lengths. In a famous set of articles (1874–7) criticizing Supernatural Religion (anon., by W. R. Cassels; 3 vols., 1874–7), in which the argument had been extensively used, J. B. *Lightfoot showed that it is unsafe to employ it, except in the most compelling cases.(1)
Wisdom segment:
Passage:
Translation: NET (New English Translation)
Verses:
Words:
Love you!
-R
Roger Courville, CSP is a globally-recognized expert in digitally-extended communication and connection, an award-winning speaker, award-winning author, and a passionately bad guitarist. Follow him on Twitter -- @RogerCourville and @JoinForTheHope – or his blog: www.forthehope.org.
Sources and resources:
(1) F. L. Cross and Elizabeth A. Livingstone, eds., The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 1510. (Thank you for supporting our ministry by using this link if you buy this book.)