Debates of the Reliability of the Christian Bible Series

The first of the series "Debates of the Reliability of the Christian Bible" produced by author Erik Angus MacRae in September of 2020, this work features an in-depth refutation of the theories of the late Julius Wellhausen commonly called "Documentary Hypothesis". These theories featured a methodology of interpretation for the textual transmission of the Bible that late-dated its books in the creative timeline and consequently caused much of European and General Western scholarship (both secular and religious alike) to disregard the Bible as an unreliable book. It also deals with another argument that comes up very much in the same breath, a common claim that the Judeo-Christian texts represented in the Bible are a mere copy or slight variation of the Ancient Near Eastern polytheistic literature.

The second of the series "Debates of the Reliability of the Christian Bible" produced by author Erik Angus MacRae in September of 2020, this work features more in-depth comparison of the second argument dealt with in the first book, and servers to further refute the ficticious claim that the Biblical text copied directly from the Ancient Near Eastern Polytheistic works. To this effect it features numerous quotations from both the biblical literature with reference to the deity of the Bible, and quotations the Polytheistic texts of the nations of that locale represented in brief portions, and it pits these two reports against one another in a context of comparison and competition. This book also deals with claims of commonality between the virigin birth narrative of Jesus and the Ancient Polytheistic literature, and refutes it. Finally the law codes pertaining to both the Abrahamic God, and the law codes of the societies with competing patron deities are compared by drawing upon a document from Credohouse, and commenting upon it.

The third of the series "Debates of the Reliability of the Christian Bible" produced by author Erik Angus MacRae in September of 2020, this work takes on the question of whether or not the Christian Bible is reliable by endeavoring in a thorough explanation and examination of the Judeo-Christian textual preservation traditions. It describes both the preservation methodology of both the Old and New Testaments and how they differ from one another, and identifies numerous texts of extant manuscripts from which our modern translations of the Christian Bible draw. Bringing up a lecture by Daniel Wallace of the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts, the process of textual criticism is explained, and the nature of the textual variants existing in the New Testament manuscripts are described with an open and honest view. After this, arguments from the Islamic community are addressed; issues are pointed out in the way of inconsistencies between contemporary Islamic arguments about the preservation of the biblical text and Quranic quotations that weaken that report, and building on the case refutations are made towards both the Gnostic Gospels, and the Islamic Gospel of Barnabas, and the authority of the Judeo-Christian literature of the Holy Bible is soundly defended.

This work features the full box set containing the three works of the "Debates of the Reliability of the Christian Bible" series. This is the perfect gift for any Christian looking to get into evangelism and apologetics, or for any non-Christian looking to hear a pro-Bible argument against the common narratives of the world.   The first book of the series, titled: "Refuting Julius Wellhausen's "Documentary Hypothesis" and Claims That the Biblical Literature Copied Directly From Ancient Polytheistic Works" features a comprehensive refutation of the famed Documentary Hypothesis theory of the late Julius Wellhausen, the theory which intentionally creates a late-date for the Christian Bible in order to hurt the perceived reliability of it - but it now faces incredible difficulties in the light of modern archaeological findings which are supporting the traditional dating of the Bible and defendings its reliability. After this, another objection is dealt with, the argument that the "Bible" and the religion it produces is a mere copy of the Ancient Polytheistic religions of the Near East, the argument that comes by nature as a result of the type of evidences used against Wellhausen. That too is refuted. The second book which is titled: "Battle of the Gods; Comparing the Literature of the Judeo-Christian Deity With Polytheistic Works of the Ancient Near East" builds on the second argument of the first book in favor of the Biblical tradition. Portional quotations are drawn from the polytheistic texts and put alongside the texts of the Bible thus pitting the deity of the Judeo-Christian texts in a battle against polytheistic deities of the Ancient Near East. After this, documents drawing up a comparison of the law codes of the Bible and the law codes of the ancient polytheistic nations are summoned to the battlefield to further clarify the contrast of the two. The third book is titled: "Defending the Manuscript Traditions of Biblical Literature and a Refutation of the Gnostic Gospels and the Islamic Gospel of Barnabas". It takes a very different route from the first two. To begin with, it establishes the history of the textual preservation of the manuscripts from which all our modern translations of the Bible draw. It explains the preservation process and its challenges, and provides examples of both Old and New Testament manuscripts, and explains the differing factors for both in regards to safeguarding the inscriptions since the methods for Old and New Testament are slightly different. After this, the third book deals with arguments from the Islamic community with reference to some of their own literature. Since arguments of the Gnostic Gospels and the Gospel of Barnabas are drawn, it looks at the tradition of these and contrasts the tradition of the Gnostic Gospels with the Biblical manuscript tradition proving the traditional Christian Gospels to be the older and more reliable witness to the life of Jesus and the meaning of His Words and Work.