Lack of Christian Reverence for Scripture
Prominent Christian apologist Michael Licona says, “I don’t like reading the Old Testament.” [1] I have heard other Christian apologists saying things like that they find many parts of the Old Testament to be “disturbing.”
What kind of reverence for God’s word do you display when you speak like that? Why do you even believe in it if that is your attitude toward it?
The way some Christian apologists speak about their Bible makes you wonder why non-Christians are supposed to think any better of their scriptures.
[1] Source: Apologetics Panel Part 2 | Podcast | Reasonable Faith. For the audio, fast forward to 16:43.
When I was a Christian, I was taught from a young age that the New Testament was essentially “The Bible” and that the Old Testament was more like a history lesson that established the main lore of the religion but was less useful as a guide for our lives.
The unspoken thought process is that God/Allah SWT changed “management styles” between the two timeframes, and went from a patriarchal entity to the hippy dippy version modern Christians like.
Also, the majority of atheist arguments against Christianity are drawn from passages in the Old Testament that are very... not progressive, so Christians have a knee jerk fear response to the Old Testament as they view it as the primary attack surface of their faith.