In other words, the main battle today is not being fought between those who say that the Bible is true and those who say that the Bible is false. The main battle is over whether there is such a thing as true and false. Whether these notions are bourgeois ideas left over from unenlightened culturally myopic times. Let me describe two ways that this attack is being carried on. One goes like this.
Modern secularists say that technology and science have shown that the Bible is irrelevant at best.
It is part of ancient superstitions on a par with the Greek gods of Zeus and Hermes and Poseidon, or the animistic belief that rivers have spirits. So the claim that the Bible has unique authority is relativized. Its claim to universal truth won't stand the test of the modern scientific world view. One response to this in the last 100 years in America has been to keep the Bible at the center of our cultural life by arguing that, whether true or not, the Bible is crucial for understanding Western Culture. It has no more claim to privilege than any other culture.