As noted by New Testament Greek scholar Daniel Wallace, “Every year, at Christmas and Easter, several major magazines, television programs, news agencies, and publishing houses love to rattle the faith of Christians by proclaiming loudly and obnoxiously that there are contradictions in the Bible, that Jesus was not conceived by a virgin, that he did not rise from the dead, ad infinitum, ad nauseum.” But Newsweek’s latest article, written by the decidedly non-biblical authority Kurt Eichenwald, takes the cake, to the point that Fox News journalist Todd Starnes commented, “At first glance, I thought Mr. Eichenwald’s essay was a failed attempt at satire. However, by the end of the first paragraph, I realized it was meant to be a scholarly work. By the end of the second paragraph, I was overcome by the fumes from this steaming pile of stink.” Really, the only redeeming way to read this article – 16 pages long, at that, with accompanying photos, and posted on Dec. 23, just one day before Christmas Eve – is to read it as a commentary on Newsweek and secular liberalism. In truth, the article tells us nothing of substantive interest about the Scriptures or today’s devoted followers of God’s Word, but it does tell us much about the ideology of its author and, equally, of the ideology of its publisher.
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 03:35:46 +0000
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