“If you don't have the worldview of the people who produced the Bible - under inspiration no less, - you can't understand what they were trying to communicate in many respects. Biblical people weren't modern people. That's self-evident no matter how much we try to deny it.” PeopleTryingInspirationModernCommunicateBiblicalWorldview Author:Michael S. Heiser
“We impose our modern worldview on the Bible to make it conform to our intellectual happy place. But we deceive ourselves into thinking this works or is legitimate. We fail to realize that the supernatural things we want to avoid are no more supernatural (or "weird") than the things that define the Christian faith. What's so "normal" about the virgin birth, the Trinity, the deity of Christ, the bodily resurrection of Christ, the hypostatic union of the incarnation (Jesus was 100% God and 100% man)?” ThinkingMenChristianJesusChristRealizingFailingModernBirthIntellectualResurrectionDeceivingConformWorldviewIncarnationChristian FaithHappy Place Author:Michael S. Heiser
“We like to pretend the core ideas of the faith are more palatable or workable within our modern rationalistic approach to Scripture than the stuff we want to call "too weird" because of our own intellectual sensibilities. The truth is they are not. So we come up with interpretations to eliminate the weirdness of the biblical worldview that makes us uncomfortable. Problem solved!” ProblemModernTruth IsIntellectualScriptureUncomfortableBiblicalSensibilityWorldviewWeirdness Author:Michael S. Heiser