Bible Christians misconstrue the Bible as history and fail to read it in its historical development; that is, they do not use methods to isolate original traditions, to identify how editors combine traditions separated several hundred years, and they do not read it genre-specifically. Moreover, they are unaware of cross-cultural ancient Near Eastern vocabulary and mythological concepts. They also do not discern how ancient biblical descriptions of the natural world not only violate science but show serious historical and logical flaws. These Bible Christians are uninformed about how
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