oddXian: Challenge the Consensus

  How Christians can confidently defend the Bible’s truth and transmission One of the most common objections skeptics raise is this: “How can you trust a book that’s been copied and recopied for thousands of years? Surely errors, omissions, and changes have crept in over time!” Christians who misunderstand how the Bible was preserved can themselves stumble — either doubting Scripture when confronted with textual variants, or clinging uncritically to one translation as though it alone were inspired. This article serves as an apologetic: to explain why Christians can trust the Bible, how inerrancy and textual criticism work together, and how the Holy Spirit has actively guarded God’s Word throughout history. Inerrancy: God’s Perfect Word Christians affirm that the Scriptures, in their original autographs , were fully inspired by God and perfectly true. “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching…” (2 Timothy 3:16). This doctrine applies specifically to what the...

  Abstract Building on recent debates over the Principle of Sufficient Reason, this paper identifies a fundamental asymmetry in how different types of "brute facts" function within explanatory frameworks. While naturalistic brute facts serve as epistemic terminators that halt rational inquiry, divine existence as a "brute fact" functions as an epistemic generator that opens limitless avenues of inquiry. This asymmetry reveals that the common objection "God is just a brute fact too" commits a category error by conflating fundamentally different types of explanatory termination. The analysis demonstrates that divine infinity creates what I term an "uncaused infinite epistemic cause": a reality that generates unlimited rational inquiry rather than terminating it, with profound implications for natural theology, epistemology, and philosophy of religion. Keywords : brute facts, epistemic termination, infinite being, natural theology, explanatory adequ...