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Published: July 14, 2026 | thefinalconvergence.com Yesterday’s post was about the individual practice. The person with the open Bible at the plain table in the early morning. The daily discipline of Joshua 1:8. The private familiarity, meditation, and obedience that living under the Word requires of the individual believer. But the Word does not intend…
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Published: July 13, 2026 | thefinalconvergence.com Twenty-four days of establishing and defending the case. Eight days dismantling objections. Six days building the positive evidence. Five days laying the doctrinal foundation. Five days telling the personal story. One day introducing the question. Today the question changes. Not, is the Bible the authoritative, sufficient, infallible, indestructible Word…
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Published: July 12, 2026 | thefinalconvergence.com When a skeptic challenges the reliability of the Bible, one of the most common forms of the challenge is textual: the Bible has been copied and recopied by hand across centuries, how can we trust that what we have today is what was originally written? Haven’t thousands of years…
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Published: July 11, 2026 | thefinalconvergence.com The Bible has enemies. It has always had enemies. And the history of those enemies is one of the most remarkable evidences for the divine origin of the text they were trying to destroy. No other book in human history has attracted the sustained, organized, resourced, and determined opposition…
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Published: July 10, 2026 | thefinalconvergence.com The previous three days have examined external evidence, prophecy fulfilled in history, cities confirmed by the spade, the internal coherence of the canonical library. Today the evidence is not external. It lives in human beings. The Bible claims to produce something that no other text in human history has…
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Published: July 9, 2026 | thefinalconvergence.com Consider a thought experiment. Take sixty-six books. Write them across fifteen centuries. Use more than forty different authors. Write in three different languages; Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. Write on three different continents; Asia, Africa, and Europe. Use every literary genre available; poetry, law, history, prophecy, wisdom literature, personal correspondence,…
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Published: July 8, 2026 | thefinalconvergence.com In the nineteenth century, biblical archaeology did not yet exist as a discipline. What existed was a confident academic consensus, built on the rationalist assumptions of the Enlightenment and the rising methodologies of historical-critical scholarship, that the Bible was an unreliable historical document. Its genealogies were legendary. Its city…
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Published: July 7, 2026 | thefinalconvergence.com The eight attacks are answered. Today the series shifts. For eight days we have been on defense, responding to objections, clearing away the challenges that have been brought against the Bible’s authority and reliability. Today and for the next several days we go on offense, building the positive case.…
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Published: July 6, 2026 | thefinalconvergence.com The eighth and final attack. And in some ways the most commonly experienced one, because it is not primarily a theological argument. It is an observation about the lived experience of Christianity across the centuries. The argument: Look at the result of Sola Scriptura. Thirty thousand denominations. Every individual…
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Published: July 5, 2026 | thefinalconvergence.com This attack comes from two very different directions, but both versions share the same foundational claim. The Roman Catholic version: the apostolic office has continued through the papacy. Peter was given the keys of the kingdom, a authority that was transmitted through apostolic succession to every subsequent Bishop of…
