Four Ways People Question the Bible

Lots of people raise lots of questions about the Bible for lots of different reasons. Here are four types of criticism applied to the Bible (source, form, redaction, and historical).
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[@hikingpete]

I see I'm not the first to notice that you're visiting Destin.

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I was hoping to see the cat on the shelf behind him...

[@jasonbarker5453]

So, I started watching this guy on KZbin named Destin because he has an interest in making me smarter every day, or at least every few weeks. I really like his videos and his personality is very uplifting, so one day I'm like "who is this guy?" I decided to research him more and stumbled onto his twitter account (the one with his actual name, not the smart one). I scrolled through his history and happened upon a tweet about a podcast that he was doing with some other guy. I thought, "great! I'ma check that out." Turns out, that podcast is also really uplifting and caused me to laugh out loud on several occasions, and whatta ya know, they are both God fearing, Jesus loving guys like me. The other guy on the podcast was just as inspiring as Destin, and he keeps blabbing about his channel that his mom really loves. So, then I decided to check out this Bible hour thing and now I'm happy that I have at least three different sources of uplifting hilarity. Keep up the good work!

[@codyfuqua121]

Your Mom was not very nice with those questions ;)

[@Hole313]

Hey Matt, I guess you are getting "Smarter Every Day".

[@JoshMakesStuff]

Matt. You’re an awesome teacher and I love your videos. I couldn’t help but try and look through the graphics to see what time it was in Destin’s office.

[@EmethMatthew]

Great stuff! Can't wait to see the rest! Tomorrow?

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Thanks! Next week for this one.

[@610garage]

Please keep the mail bag thing going. Here, I'll get the next one started. Matt whitman in 4k? ANd you thought the night crawler episode of NDQ was scary. I'm kidding! 😂 But seriously, that mailbag segment was just too great. In terms of graphics and sound effects. The poop emojiy was a nice touch. 😀

[@keepbman]

I am excited to see that you're at Destin's house!! Maybe some joint content?? And I really enjoy all your videos and messages matt. They are huge in the discernment of my own faith!

[@TasJess]

keepbman Destin and Matt have a great podcast called no dumb questions. It's really good.

[@keepbman]

Jessica Guest oh yes I know!! I commute to them haha. I meant KZbin content... both great channels.

[@theKRUGMEISTER]

Now Destin has to start a Smarter Every Day video from inside Matt’s office

[@jorowi]

I'm Matt and this is the Ten Minute Fishing Hour.

[@MattWhitmanTMBH]

I've thought about it. Still thinking about it.

[@Phelps094]

DO IT! You are inspiring me to want to learn fly fishing, but I don't know where to start...

[@dimesonhiseyes9134]

Do it. I watch a ton of fishing vids on the youtubes

[@weird_biscuit]

Fishers of men? xD

[@AlexCFaulkner]

It felt so satisfying getting to learn biblical content from the same room we get to learn about the wonders of God in the natural world! Both special and general revelation has been displayed from that office. thats just pretty cool.

[@ClaytonMcPherson]

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[@MattWhitmanTMBH]

Thank you Clayton. I've been sitting here all morning hitting refresh; just waiting...

[@loganbeck5028]

I was so enthralled with the video that it took me a while to realize you that you filmed it at Destin’s house.

[@briancostello9940]

Oh... It's in Destin's room.... This is so trippy....

[@tylergraham7352]

This is the best crossover I've seen since Infinity War.

[@pjf2675]

Waiting excitedly for 2nd half.

[@MattWhitmanTMBH]

I think it's good. I'm biased though.

[@pjf2675]

and for that we are blessed. :-)

[@jfaul_7823]

Dude! Are you visiting Destin while in Alabama??? This is my favorite setting for your show yet!

[@JoshuaPaulKing]

Hi! Just discovered your YT channel. Love it! I just started seminary last year. I'm finding your videos very helpful. (Or at least interesting. Haha JK.) Are you a paster? Did you attend seminary?

[@jwrundle]

Hey Matt I love the deep dives you take on the bible I was raised Catholic but i've been shopping around for chruches lately and i mostly like the places that have the deep dives into the context of the scripture and would love of you would do some longer form stuff

[@MattWhitmanTMBH]

Thanks man. Have you watched any of the sermon on the Mount series? You might dig that.

[@jwrundle]

I will check them out!!!!!! I just love your scholarship of the bible it makes me excited about my faith I hope your sabbatical was great next time swing through north central Kansas!!!

[@MaKv4l]

Hahaha😂 absolutely loved that segway!!!😂 and now I want to go fishing! And visit USA and go fishing!

[@Laura-qp9iw]

I thought that background looked both different and familiar, then I noticed Destin's clock

[@jasonpratt5126]

While "historical criticism" has been used in the past for super-sceptical reasons as Matt noted, a more neutral type of hist-crit compares text details to historical context to check how pieces of the wider context fit together, and if wider context can inform the meaning beyond what the text says. Preachers and teachers (and apologists like myself) do this all the time; Matt's pretty good at it himself! {g}

[@StephenHind]

LOL the background! What time is it again? Oh you hid the clock! I wonder why?

[@peas320]

Just watched this after catching up on all the NDQ podcast episodes, and Matt, you don't look anything like what I expected you to look like! (Better than I imagined don't worry) Nice beard too!

[@MattWhitmanTMBH]

Glad my face could melt your brain.

[@tylergraham7352]

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[@MickKerr]

Hi I'm Matt and you're getting smarter every day!

[@razaldazal2259]

It wasn’t until I saw destins clock on the wall that I noticed may was with destin.

[@chriss5776]

Great video. Do I see the manatee back there? Glad to see it made it along for your trip.

[@MattWhitmanTMBH]

Yes! Nice catch!

[@TasJess]

You in Destin's study was very disorienting. I kept expecting you to break out in physics or something. Also, your eyes looked super blue and you felt really close. I got used to it and managed to focus. Not bad, just different. It was a solid video. I'm looking forward to the next one. Hope your bruise is healed.

[@MattWhitmanTMBH]

That bruise is cruel and it's still not fully healed. Crazy right?

[@TasJess]

Ouch! When I was 17 my little brother knuckle punched me in the leg and managed to rupture some crazy blood vessels or something. That bruise took over three months to heal and really hurt but I didn't have to sit on it. You have my sympathy man.

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Heh, amazing Destin trusted you enough to sit among his toys! :P

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JP Halpert!? Jim and Pam watch TMBH!?

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Two of my biggest fans.

[@jasonpratt5126]

As a fairly uncontroversial example of basic source criticism, the author of GosLuke talks in his introduction about other prior written attempts at the life of Jesus, and how he decided to go talk to living eyewitnesses in order to get the details right. This is pretty standard for ancient histiography (methods of composing a history) -- I have a character doing something similar about a generation after the main story events, in my novel, as an illustration of the process. (Plug, plug, winner of the 2008 inaugural Christian Small Publishers Association retailer vote novel of the etc. {g}) So how does this information correspond to the subsequent material? Does the claim and the material mutually reinforce each other, or do serious problems crop up? Does the form (or do the forms) of the subsequent material (note the connection to form crit here) mean the author changed his mind about getting the chronological sequence right, if evidence shows he topically arranged things around? -- or did he only mean to get the (rather tight and subtly detailed) birth narrative chronology correct? Or was he talking about chronology at all? One highly interesting conclusion from source critiquing the GosLuke introduction, is that he expected Christians at the time of his composition to understand he was talking about Jesus when calling his sources eyewitnesses and deputies (literally under-rowers) of "the word". That's a logos Christology of some sort, smack offhand in GosLuke! The historical royal books in the OT meanwhile have a tendency to talk by name about sources that don't exist anymore but which would have been entirely normal for the project: the Book of Wars, etc., or official histories at the palace.

[@jasonpratt5126]

Notice that Luke's introduction also brings in redaction criticism: he's using oral and maybe also written sources and trying to accomplish something by how he's putting them together. He's acting as a redactor or editor for his material, or that's his claim anyway.

[@madamson93]

You should totally do a 2nd channel and put some fishing videos up! You're fishing for men on this channel. You can fish for fish on the other! Great content!

[@quinterbeck]

Can't believe I got to 5:05 before I realised 'this isn't the usual set for TMBH... this is Destin's place!!'

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:)

[@noahwilhelm9201]

Did higher criticism start because of Charles Lyell and Darwin’s popularizing the theory of evolution? Or did it happen independently?

[@MattWhitmanTMBH]

Independently, and the movement predates Darwin by quite a bit.

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The Ten Minute Bible Hour Wow, that is interesting, now I really can’t wait to see the next video! Anyway, this video is awesome, and I hope your leg is feeling better!

[@ryandurham87]

2 questions: Can you use Destin's clock in the top right? What fly did you use? and do you have a go to pattern? (ok 3 questions)

[@MattWhitmanTMBH]

I got that guy on an olive ghost pattern (minnow). My go-to setup is floating an elk hair stimulator with a beadhead prince nymph tied on below the surface. What about you?

[@ryandurham87]

I just recently went flyfishing for the first time. ATM I like a olive woolly bugger or a foam hopper, but I can mostly fish for bass and panfish. Trout requires a 1-2 hr drive. Fun times! I like your material! Thanks for explaining your position in such a reasoned through out manner.

[@MattWhitmanTMBH]

Thanks Ryan; you're picking up what I'm putting down. Try using a Prince nymph to get rock or red-eye bass. Tons of fun!

[@fingerzfrienemy2226]

Lol. I find you to be very modest and level-headed. Maybe the most "ballanced" Christian I've seen. Keep up the goodness. My Lord God has gifted you with a mind unlike most in this silly world.

[@willy_dot]

Like that you're in smarter every day studio xD

[@Ramius117]

Fishing and talking about various forms of higher criticism.... pulls me in.

[@610garage]

Smidge disapointed Destin didn't open for ya. :)

[@purplejoeler]

Also, next time you’re with Destin, you should have him pretend to be you for the intro, just for the lulz

[@johnmcafee6140]

Where did you find a salmon run in Alabama?!?

[@johnskinner1282]

Good video and nice looking trout. Can’t say I recognize the species.

[@blacksheep_77]

Hey i think you really are on vacation because i know that room!!! Are u getting smarter every day? You seem like you are smarter today than yesterday.

[@MattWhitmanTMBH]

It smells like cabbage in there.

[@blacksheep_77]

The Ten Minute Bible Hour - Now thats a bit of info about Destin we would never know without the TMBH mole.

[@blacksheep_77]

The Ten Minute Bible Hour - Even more...why? There is a podcast in there somewhere.

[@abrhmsancehz]

HEY!!! I KNOW THAT ROOM!

[@dimesonhiseyes9134]

Hi Destin’s Room.

[@ryanharper6391]

Are you hanging out with destin??

[@MattWhitmanTMBH]

Who?

[@ryanharper6391]

Destin from smarter every day

[@willy_dot]

Who? XD

[@WinfieldStrock]

That green and orange blinking thing in the upper right corner is distracting

[@truethinker221]

Lots of people raise lots of questions about the Bible for lots of different reasons. Here are four types of criticism applied to the Bible (source, form, redaction, and historical). The idea is critique plural not criticize. Source We know Moses was not with God during creation or during the flood Abraham Isaac or Jacob so we believe he at least used sources for that. Unless the bible was created like the book of Mormon or the Koran and poof appear Or Moses's hand just started moving. The bible seems different and to me that is its strength and reality . As well as chapter 10 in Genesis Moses could not have known about these nations . That did not exist for a thousand years. And again all the different versions of the same event.The most obvious narrative that began the idea for the documentary Hypotheses was the use of the divine Name Yahweh, given to Moses by an the angle of the Lord from behind a burning bush. This appears to be the first time anyone ever knew this term as an expression of God (Name). So when Scholars noticed that the Name had been used from the beginning of Genesis Chapter 2 on, it seemed strange that Mosses the author, would have known the name and used it many times and then act like he never heard it before in Exodus 3;. That is kind of the go to source of the beginning of the Graf Wellhausen documentary hypothesis? You know it why shouldn't others. It is the 1A of collage theological biblical studies if you don't get the basics under your belt you can not move on. It miss used but that should not prevent us from knowing it and using it . It would be like avoiding biology because you don't believe in evolution you would never make it in the medical field or any related fields with out passing general biology.

[@pauljohn5589]

good

[@ravissary79]

No, The Documentary hypothesis only started with separating parts of the Torah out based on the use of 2 names for God, but it was expanded to reflect what they thought was priestly and what likely came from the northern kingdom, etc. The absurdity is that it's assumed, without proof, out if the gate, to not come from Moses and his scribe/line (like Joshua). The earliest documentary hypothesis advocates assumed, based on popular views on history from a secular perspective, that Moses MUST have been illiterate, as well as all Hebrews and Egyptians. This is because this theory predates the explosion of modern scientific advances in Ancient Near Eastern studies and so they didn't think hieroglyphics were actual abstract writing, they thought they were pictograms, like native American picture writing. That's because the theory predates the translation of the Rosetta Stone, which was the moment egyptology exploded because it changed how moderns viewed Egypt. So the assumption HAD to be Moses was illiterate, which logically leads to asking where the Torah came from, which logically leads to the idea it came later, but had a textual lineage, likely via oral tradition, which then came together over centuries into various texts and these were then assembled later... perhaps by Ezra. So the hypothesis is a logically necessary enterprise of speculation into who contributed what, and what that means for interpretation. But once you realize it's founded, that the whole logical grounds for the necessity of the inquiry is based on something factually not true, the entire enterprise becomes question begging writ large, a quest no one ever needs to take... it's all just totally unnecessary.

[@nate2d2]

Thanks for this. I feel like I'm getting smarter every day. I also feel like I'm getting more original and witty every day. I am so smrt. S M R T.

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[@charliexoxox]

Destin with a beard talks about bible

[@scottholmes4388]

Most people notice you’re in Destins room, but are you wearing his shirt?

[@MattWhitmanTMBH]

Yes I am. He foolishly left it lying around.

[@scottholmes4388]

Always wondered if he made you ride the backwards bike

[@dhonsinger]

Why are you in Destin's office though? ? ? Are we getting Biblically Smarter Everyday?

[@calebmccoy4572]

Man I need to be more critical of what I believe.😯

[@SaraMGreads]

Since it’s a comment free-for-all, I prefer you without the beard.

[@idk7173]

hey aren't you supposed to be on vacation. (btw I am not your mom.)

[@someguysopinion3692]

Nice trout

[@MattWhitmanTMBH]

Thanks man.

[@LilKrazy9292]

Wait. This isn't Smarter Every Day!

[@sjappiyah4071]

Can’t believe your mom dissed ur head like that...

[@TysonHodge]

Is that a manatee behind you? be careful!

[@TallesMariano]

this video was made in alabama. and your beard is way too close to the camera.

[@MattWhitmanTMBH]

I can get soooooooo much closer.

[@11bravocrunchie22]

Stop stealing Destin’s set!

[@TheAnianite]

Dude, your head is shaped like a human head...! Also; gorgeous head...