Summary conclusion: Five reasons are false and irrelevant to inspiration; two are legitimate tests the Bible passes
Mike wraps up the main article before taking Q&A.
Of the seven reasons given: five (organization, specificity, clarity, beauty, geographic scope) are neither true as criticisms nor relevant as tests for inspiration. Two — prophecy (Reason 5) and knowledge beyond human capacity (Reason 6, essentially the same as 5) — are legitimate evidential tests. The Bible satisfies both. The skeptic's closing suggestion (God should place 100 thousand-foot granite slabs in major cities with glowing text in a universal language) is critiqued: it privileges modern people with video cameras and live-streaming while being useless to the majority of humanity who lived before now, and would still be dismissed as government conspiracy or alien intervention. The better standard — fulfilled prophecy — is verifiable across time.
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