If you want to be standing upright when the pillars of your faith are rocked repeatedly back and forth, when everything that you’ve believed about God and the Bible is called into mocking question, you need to understand how solid the ground beneath your Christian beliefs actually is, according to Andreas Köstenberger, Darrell Bock and Josh Chatraw in their book Truth Matters: Confident Faith in a Confusing World.
The authors seek to provide answers to a range of propositions arising from the work of popular author and scholar Professor Bart Ehrman, such as:
- The Bible was put together to suit an agenda
- Your Bible doesn’t contain the real words of God after all
- The Bible can’t seem to keep its own story straight
- The whole basis of Christianity is in question
- God doesn’t care. Maybe God isn’t even there
The book is reasonably short, and the writing style is appropriately engaging for its target audience, young Christians who are about to head off to college and about to come into contact with a more sceptical world. However, the subject matter is limited mainly to issues dealing with the reliability of the New Testament manuscripts; the book does not provide ready answers to many of the broader attacks being raised by atheistic philosophers on the whole idea of religious belief.