is not a biblical theist, he assumes this stance “for the sake of argument” to show that obvious absurdities or contradictions flow from accepting this position. Bradley argues that biblical theists must accept all four of the statements above—1, 2ʹ, 3, and 4ʹ—but that they cannot accept them without logical contradiction. So a “logical quandary arises” for any theist who believes that the Bible is “a reliable guide to what we should and should not do.”13 A problem surfaces: if we assume that the