We begin the process of becoming critical readers of the Bible the first time we are dissatisfied with being told what the text means and decide to see for ourselves. --Robert M. Price

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

• Welcome 
• Biblical Inerrancy 
• Do People Actually Believe This Way? 
• What Accounts for the Alleged Errors of the Bible?  
  • The Denier
  • The Compromiser
• Redefining the Uncomfortable Doctrine of Biblical Inerrancy: A Response to Timothy Paul Jones's book, "Misquoting Truth"  
• "The Clarity Complaint" Complainer: Why Isn't the Bible More Clear?
  • Deleting "The Clarity Complaint": We May Never Know Why the Bible Isn't More Clear 
  • "The Clarity Complaint" Resurrected: "Jimmy Pat" Holding Can Mock It, Can Delete It, Can Defer to Ancient Jews, But He Cannot Answer Why the Bible is Not More Clear  
• Final Thoughts 

PART ONE: ON THE UNRELIABILITY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT

• Prologue
• • What Is the Old Testament  
  
  
• The Unreliability of Genesis

  • The Loss of Paradise: How the Garden of Eden Cannot Have Ever Been a Historical Place.

    • Paradise Not Found: A Response to Damien Mackey's Criticism of My Article. 
    • Paradise M.I.A.: Another Reply to Damien Mackey Regarding My Article. 
    • Paradise Dead & Buried: My Final Reply to Damien Mackey.
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  • What Genesis Got Wrong (A video essay)  
    • Part 1
    • Part 2
    • Part 3
    • Part 4
    • Part 5
    • Part 6

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• The Unreliability of Exodus
• • Who Were the Pharaohs of the Exodus?: Misguided Attempts to Historicize the Biblical Narrative of the Biblical Exodus. 
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  • Playing the Numbers Game: How the Incredible Population Numbers of the Hebrews for the Exodus Are Beyond Improbable. 
    • Playing the Numbers Game: A Reply: James Patrick Holding and Brent Hardaway Respond to My Article. 
    • Holding Holding in the Hot Seat: How J.P.Holding's "Scythia Challenge" Went From the Frying Pan Into the Fire
    • Holding On the Scythian Scrap Heap: J.P. Holding Can Erase My Name From His Webpages, But He Can't Find the Hebrews of the Biblical Exodus 

   

• The Unreliability of Joshua

• • The Walls of Jericho: Deconstructing James Patrick Holding's "Evidence of Jericho."

    • New Jericho Information: James Patrick Holding "Updates" His Article With Outdated Material.
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• The Unreliability of Jonah
• • Jonah and the Whale: A Brief Look at the Biblical Tale of a Man Swallowed by a Fish.
  
  
• General Unreliability of the Old Testament
• • The Dinosaur Glen: Why Doesn't the Bible Mention Prehistoric Creatures?

PART TWO: ON THE UNRELIABILITY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT

• The Greatest Commandment: Did Jesus really say that?

PART THREE: MISCELLANEOUS UNRELIABILITY

• On Straw Men, Subtle Shifts and the Fallacy of Intelligent Design 
• Everyone's Creation Problem 
• Close Encounters of the Trinity Kind 
• Evaluating Sources: On the Unreliability of an Apologist
• Holding's Hypocritical Zeal (hosted off-site)
• Failed Prophecy: Why the Bible Cannot be the Inerrant, Inspired Word of God Based Upon the Fulfillment of Prophecy  

APPENDIX

• Appendix A

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