A response to Tripp Crosby
This article responds to Tripp Crosby’s TikTok, found here , seen on 7FEB22. Note to Tripp Crosby: if you want to take these issues seriously, I would love to talk with you. Email, Zoom, recorded YouTube discussion; whatever works best for you. We can discuss the history of the events, different scholars, various texts. I’d be glad to field your questions and answer them as best I can. Since Tripp effectively presented this TikTok as a series of points, my response will be in kind. I created a complete transcript and will address each point line by line. However, before I begin there, I want to make a few points of my own: I will not approach this assuming Christianity is true, Jesus rose the dead, my “denomination” is correct, the Bible is the Word of God, etc. There are different ways to categorize how something is wrong; I will be using the following two for this article: Directly: something that is just outright wrong. For example, claiming that 2+2=5. Indirectly: somet...