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Either situation is fine to consider. How effective do you think this presentation would be - “Good afternoon, sir. I see that you have a Bible. May I see it?” ”Sure.” (Tosses the Bible in a trash receptacle.) ”You won’t be needing that. I’d like to tell you about the one true God and about...

How many people would believe in God and in the Messiah if there was no Bible? The student I spoke about in the OP was on the cusp of throwing the Bible in a garbage can.

Your church has a recent sermon on how to help someone who has lost confidence in the reliability of the Bible? Welcome to the forum.

* Don’t water it. *

* The BIG Roundup Method. Fails 99% of the time but 100% better than leaving it blank. *

“To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practice, and this will forever be my rule.” - John James Audubon

I’m currently reading Jesus After The Gospels: The Christ of the Second Century, The Hale Memorial Lectures of Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, 1989, delivered and written by Robert M. Grant.

@KUWN started an interesting, and helpful, thread on that topic recently. It’s titled Islamic Approach to Textual Criticism, located in the Apologetics forum. Something that I didn’t mention to the student -> the Muslim did him a good service. The student wouldn’t have seen it that way while...

Something I would do now that I didn’t do then -> pray with the student. I prayed about the situation. He told me that he tried to pray about it but his heart wasn’t in it. I should have offered, or asked, to pray with him. It worked out but this is something that I could have done which might...

Thanks. This thread was started for the benefit of people like yourself in mind who don’t know what they would do. I hadn’t thought about it prior to finding myself in that position twenty years ago. I handled it - successfully, I’m happy to report - but I might have handled it better, or in a...

* A lot to like about a horse that won’t quit on you after initially failing. *