Readers Reply

Reexamining Cherished Presuppositions

I am writing to commend you on your excellent magazine.

It is a refreshing difference to see the Bible handled so openly and honestly in a magazine designed not just for scholars but for the reading public.

The Bible itself stands as our timeless model of truthfulness and candor.

It is my opinion that truth has nothing to fear from full disclosure.

Christians need to be informed of the findings of scientific biblical criticism, even if this challenges us to reexamine cherished presuppositions.

Your magazine fills this need—and much more—while still approaching the Scripture with the full sympathy and reverence due the Word of God.

An Amateur Astronomer Comments on the Biblical Text

As an amateur astronomer I would like to comment on your enjoyable but all too short article, “The Stars in the Heavens— Many or a Few?” (Illuminations, BR 03:03).

The beginning of the article discusses the problem of the relatively small number of visible stars, supposedly promised as the number of Abram’s descendants. Look at the first sentence of the Biblical text again. “Look toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” God implies in His address to Abram that there are so many, seen and unseen, that to count them all would be a stupendous task.