It states that Jesus was crucified at a specific moment in real history via a specific person, Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Judea. It would be bizarre to claim that it didn't matter whether these events were true or not, 'because the Bible's not a textbook'. So the question of whether the Bible is a science textbook evades the real issues, which are to do with its claim to total truth and authority . It is meaningless to claim that scriptural authority applies only to 'religious things', since the Christian Gospel is all about real things, the real origin, history and destiny of man and the universe. Remove its claim to authority in the realm of science, and you are actually removing it from any relevance to the real world.
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This is why its ministry has transformed countless lives. The less you keep its message to yourself, the more you become an ally in the spread of the wonderful Good News of salvation . Thomas Nelson, Nashville TN, USA, p. 105, 1994. Unlike the Bible, textbooks rapidly become out of date in any case. Return to text .