Satan's Guide to the Bible (REBUTTED)

In this episode Trent rebuts the arguments of a viral video called "Satan's Guide to the Bible".

00:00 – Introduction
00:58 – Biblical Inerrancy
02:43 – Is Exodus Historical?
05:35 – Israelites were Canaanites?
06:54 – Dash Babies on Rocks?
09:10 – Israelite Child Sacrifice?
12:54 – Killing Canaanite Children?
18:21 – Biblical Forgeries?
20:27 – No Empty Tomb?
20:58 – Failed End Times Predictions?

[nicholasweaver]

"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist" is actually no longer true. Now, it's convincing the world he's the good guy.

[josephantony]

"A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us.” - St. Anthony of Egypt

[adambombdiggidy]

Might want to change the thumbnail a smidgen. The red border at the bottom might make users think they've already watched this video.

[mikearchibald-ug]

The video is very clearly aimed at the evangelical crowd. The very first section is about those preaching the 'inerrancy' of the text.

[Forester-]

When a fundamentalist becomes a non-believer they really just become a non-believing fundamentalist.

[SneakyEmu]

Recognition of genre is one of the most important aspects of biblical interpretation

[robertdobie]

It is amazing to me how obtuse some readers of the Bible can be: it's as if a reader of Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment, " which recounts the acts and inner life of a murderer, would conclude that Dostoyevsky's novel therefore approves of murder, when in fact, the novel is a powerful indictment of modern ideologies that try to justify certain types of murder.

[gavasiarobinssson]

"I dont believe in your book but I will tell you how to read it"

[RadBruce.]

Why do they think that using the embodiment of Evil will change our minds?

[krishnasaikia]

Devil is twisting God's words. Who could've thought of that

[Kharniela]

The 'documentary' reminds me of a saying.
'With a hammer in your hand, you tend to see every problem as a nail.'

[capitalm]

Atheists not repackage frequently answered Biblical challenges and misunderstand history challenge.

Level: impossible.

[supernerd]

I got recommended the "documentary" earlier this week; and over the last few days, recommended rebuttal videos. I was just waiting for Trent to do his work.
Patience pays off.

[NotablySped]

"Satan's guide to the Bible" oh, you mean the father of lies is trying to convince me the Bible is evil and he is not? Very interesting implications.

[josephantony]

Trent’s knowledge of Scriptures is very impressive.

[holyromanemperor]

Was waiting for this rebuttal when I saw that IP had also made a rebuttal to that video.
Combo of IP and Trent is great.

[slidymctuesday]

I don’t understand how people’s reading of the “dash your babes against the rock” psalm can be so mislead.

The point of the psalm is that Babylon is so horribly evil that anyone who invades it would feel happy taking the worst, most brutal kind of revenge. It doesn’t say “God says we should smash your babies on rocks” it says “happy will HE be who smashes your babes against the rock.”

[censoredanon]

This is disturbing stuff. Some really broken people out there.

Happy Feast day of Saint Peter's Chair!

[jojogodtier]

This is peak irony. Like am I supposed to trust a guy represented as satan?

[killianmiller]

I had read about an interesting insight about the Canaanite slaughter narratives. Consider events where God’s wrath is kindled against some people, and someone like Moses intervenes and interceded for mercy on them, or how Abraham kept narrowing down the number of righteous in Sodom that God would not smite them for. It could be that, though God’s mortal judgment against a people is just, he is also calling his people to mercy, which they failed to do with Canaan.