The problem with McLaren’s position is that there is nothing but our own personal sense of right and wrong (which will most often be informed by our cultural assumptions) to judge what is “right and wrong” in the Bible. This is something C. S. Lewis referred to as “chronological snobbery.” He described it as “the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common to our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone out of date is on that account discredited.”[11] He encourages good thinkers to ask questions like “Why did this idea go out of date?” and “Was it ever refuted or did it
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