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Bible History (Wheaton: Scripture Press, 1969), 122). The eminent archaeologist,
W. F. Albright, concurs:
“In no country has so relatively great a number of figurines of the naked goddess
of fertility, some distinctly obscene, been found. Nowhere does the cult of
serpents appear so strongly. The two goddesses Astarte (Ashtaroth) and Anath
are called the great goddesses which conceive but do not bear! Sacred courtesans
and eunuch priests were excessively common. Human sacrifice was wellknown
. . . the erotic aspects of their cult must have sunk to extremely sordid
depth of social degradation.” [Quoted in Merrill Unger, Archaeology and the
Old Testament (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1979), 75.] God commanded the
Hebrews to clean all this up, and not to practice it.
87 Aruna Gnanadason, quoted in Susan Cyre, “Women’s conference re-imagines
new god,” Rutherford, August, 1994,19.
88 Ibid.
89 “Onward Christian Sophists,” National Review, April 18, 1994, 19.
90 George Archibald, “Anti-Vatican groups says Bible backs it,” Washington
Times, September 1, 1995, A1.
91 C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters with Screwtape Proposes a Toast, Revised
Edition (New York: Collier Books, Macmillan Publishing Company, 1961,
1982), 12.
92 C. S. Lewis, Miracles (New York: Macmillan, 1960), 164.
93 John R. W. Stott, The Authority of the Bible (Downers Grove, Ill: IVP, 1974),
7, 17.
94 Ibid., 29.
95 Ibid.
96 Tertullian, quoted in ibid., 27.
97 Transcript of an interview with Erwin Lutzer (Ft. Lauderdale: Coral Ridge
Ministries-TV, 2004).
98 Ibid.
99 Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield, The Inspiration and Authority of the Bible
(Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1948), quoted in Norman L. Geisler
and William E. Nix, A General Introduction to the Bible (Chicago: Moody
Press, 1968, 1988), 38-39.
100 Edward J. Young, quoted in Paul Enns, Moody Handbook on Theology
(Chicago: Moody Press, 1989), 160.
101 Norman L. Geisler and William E. Nix, A General Introduction to the Bible
(Chicago: Moody Press, 1968, 1988), 39.
102 Lee Strobel in D. James Kennedy, The Bible: Fable, Fraud or Fact? (Ft.
Lauderdale: Coral Ridge Ministries, 1994), a video.
103 Lee Strobel and Gary Poole, Exploring The Da Vinci Code (Grand Rapids:
Zondervan, 2006).
104 Lee Strobel, Inside the Mind of Unchurched Harry and Mary: How To Reach
Friends And Family Who Avoid God And The Church (Grand Rapids: Zondervan,
1993), 36.
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