R.G. Price:
I think Bible scholars should analyze the Bible and tell people what it says and what it means and if there are agreements and disagreements between the different books, and they should do textual criticism of difficult quotes. I don't think they should tell people these events really took place because that is not their role. They can't prove that Rome really had a census where I guess millions of people had to go to the land of their ancestors or birth to be counted. That is for historians. If the Bible is true or not is not for anybody to say based on any evidence, except that people believed it.
They also act like psychologists saying only people who really believed something was true would be willing to die for their beliefs. The Bible mentions many false prophets in Jeremiah, and the punishment for being a false prophet was death. They were false prophets even though they knew they were going to die for their beliefs. No one says they were willing to die for their beliefs, so they must have been telling the truth.
R.G. Price:
I think Bible scholars should analyze the Bible and tell people what it says and what it means and if there are agreements and disagreements between the different books, and they should do textual criticism of difficult quotes. I don't think they should tell people these events really took place because that is not their role. They can't prove that Rome really had a census where I guess millions of people had to go to the land of their ancestors or birth to be counted. That is for historians. If the Bible is true or not is not for anybody to say based on any evidence, except that people believed it.
They also act like psychologists saying only people who really believed something was true would be willing to die for their beliefs. The Bible mentions many false prophets in Jeremiah, and the punishment for being a false prophet was death. They were false prophets even though they knew they were going to die for their beliefs. No one says they were willing to die for their beliefs, so they must have been telling the truth.