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Do Historical Matters Matter to Faith? A Critical Appraisal of Modern and Postmodern Approaches to Scripture is unavailable, but you can change that!

Is historical accuracy an indispensable part of the Bible’s storyline, or is Scripture only concerned with theological truths? As progressive evangelicals threaten to reduce the Bible’s jurisdiction by undermining its historical claims, every Christian who cares about the integrity of Scripture must be prepared to answer this question. Do Historical Matters Matter to Faith? offers a firm defense...

functioning cognitive faculties working in accord with their design plan.”16 Belief in God, he argues, itself is (or can be) properly basic. In other words, if it is produced by our cognitive faculties working according to their “design plan” (the sensus divinitatis, before the fall, or the “internal instigation of the Holy Spirit,” in the postlapsarian state), belief in God need not be built upon beliefs that are more basic. So although the traditional arguments for the existence of God may have
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