10 Tough Questions from the Old Testament Answered. Reasons to Believe/Reasons.org. E-Book. 14 pages.
Very disappointing. Not worth the purchase price (it was free). Not recommended.
Reasons to Believe offered this as a free e-book download. Looked like it might be worthwhile, so I requested it. However, this is not a book defending the Old Testament record, spending more time trying to explain the miracles as sort-of-providential natural occurrences. Moses probably did not turn the water to blood in Egypt; it may have involved toxic red algae. The long day of Joshua was an extended period of darkness, since they “needed the coolness of night to continue the battle.” According to Reasons.org, “most Old Testament scholars” prefer this interpretation (even though I could find no translations that support this idea).
God sending fire from heaven in answer to the prayer of Elijah appears to be supernatural, they say.
However, there is a plausible hypernatural, science-based explanation based on a type of lightning strike commonly called a “Bolt from the Blue.”
The Nephilim of Genesis chapter 6 may have been “the product of human and Neanderthal interbreeding.”
10 Tough Questions from the Old Testament Answered presents a “halfway covenant” between the natural explanations of science and the supernatural explanations of Scripture. With friends like that, the Bible does not need enemies! Be not deceived.
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