EPISODE · Jun 2, 2026 · 25 MIN
The Bible as Science: Truth Needs No Update
from The Preaching of the Cross
Most people don’t reject the Bible because they’ve read it carefully. They reject a rumor about it. We open with a simple explanation of why our broadcast skips the orchestras, announcers, and filler and gets straight to the Word of God: God’s people pay for the time, and we want to be good stewards of every minute.From there we continue our “The Bible As Science” series by laying out the real issue behind the Bible and science debate. Nature reveals God, and Scripture reveals God, so the question is whether those revelations truly clash or whether the clash comes from human pride, shifting theories, and shallow reading. We challenge the habit of treating modern science as automatically infallible while treating the Bible as automatically suspect, and we talk about how big headlines often overpromise and later get quietly revised.We also explain why the Bible is not a textbook of science and why that actually protects its credibility. Scientific language changes with every generation, and a Bible written in today’s technical jargon would be both anachronistic and unreadable to ordinary people. Along the way we tackle a classic “gotcha” about the Garden of Eden and apples, showing how tradition can masquerade as Scripture, and we use a funny illustration to expose how “scientific diction” can hide simple truth.If you care about biblical inspiration, faith and reason, and the claim that Scripture contains scientific fact without needing scientific jargon, listen through and weigh the arguments for yourself. Subscribe, share the episode with a friend, and leave a review with the biggest Bible and science question you want answered next.Church Website — BibleBaptistDeLand.comMinistry Website — JamesWKnox.org YouTube Channel — YouTube.com/JamesWKnoxSermonsSermon Audio — SermonAudio.com/BibleBaptistDeLandWeb Store — Store.JamesWKnox.org
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Most people don’t reject the Bible because they’ve read it carefully. They reject a rumor about it. We open with a simple explanation of why our broadcast skips the orchestras, announcers, and filler and gets straight to the Word of God: God’s people pay for the time, and we want to be good stewards of every minute. From there we continue our “The Bible As Science” series by laying out the real issue behind the Bible and science debate. Nature reveals God, and Scripture reveals God, so the q...
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