I have to hand it to atheist and agnostic wannabe scholars. They have snowed many people into thinking that suggestions and criticism of the Bible demonstrate that the Bible is untrustworthy. Behold the new new criticism! Their criticism always takes the form of conjecture, when it is not operating in bad faith entirely. Curiously, the critics cite the Bible (because they have a text to cite), but themselves know little about the text that they criticize. Thus they often demonstrate errors of logic, ignorance of history, applying modern meaning to old texts, and all sorts of reasoning problems. The audience must be familiar with textual criticism to catch these, though. The unschooled will look at the criticism and begin to doubt.
Often such critics quickly shift from merely criticizing to advocating paganism or particularly witchcraft. On what basis do they do this? On the basis of folklore. Now folklore has no texts to critique. Its origins are lost in the mists of time. And no-one sees the farcical logic here? By folklore they critique texts? And not just any text, but a text that is more trustworthy than the folios of Shakespeare? The Bible stands head and shoulders above any document from antiquity in terms of its agreement across its source documents — it has an unparalleled integrity.
Also, these scholars’ work is half-done. You cannot merely critique something and by that demonstrate that life does not work a certain way. Your job is much larger than that. You have to demonstrate that life does work the way that you say. That is the challenge that these soi-distant scholars do not take up. They hide in the shadows of malignity and simply cast shadows on the things they dislike. Nowhere do they offer up a more plausible, better-documented, more accurate explanation of how life works. They cannot, but to admit it ruins their fun, reduces their credibility, and loses them the starry-eyed that follow them around like cult members.
In short, they are cowards, and they are infected with the disease of the age — mockery. All they can do is mock, not praise; they can tear down, but they cannot create. They are infants, like the rest of the destructive horde that ravages culture like barbarians.
The Quiet Towers 