The fundamentalist position was a departure from traditional Christianity. Although the early Christians considered the Bible’s human writers to be conduits through which the word of God was revealed, they recognized that the texts themselves had nevertheless been written by men. That is why they canonized four gospels, even though the gospels often contradict one another on such sacrosanct issues as Jesus’s genealogy, the events of his birth, the chronology of his life, the date and time of his death, and the circumstances surrounding his resurrection. Rather than conceal or apologize for
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