Max -
Do you know any Evangelical Christians? In my experience there are three broad categories.
(1) The average EC who simply has a hyper-conditioned reverence for the Bible. It's extremely familiar to him, he's heard it quoted as authority a million times in a million settings. And you know how
wildly people overvalue the things familiar to them.
I would put Splendor, Brad1970, Mempho etc. in this category. Pretty harmless, impossible to take seriously.
(2) The over-achieving EC who has read
Josh McDowell and decided it's pretty much a watertight case. Anyone who disagrees is in active rebellion against God. This category, consisting mostly of Calvinists, displays a pathological absence of self-skepticism and honesty.
Very dangerous group. Examples: txag007, Matt R, BTIrish, Bills217, and usually NotReady.
(3) The EC for whom Scripture has catalyzed an authentic spiritual experience. This is extremely rare, first of all because very few people feel the emptiness and estrangement that are necessary for authentic spirituality. You have to have a dark, festering
sadness for the human condition rotting out your soul...there are no words for it really. Anyways, some people resolve this existential crisis through an encounter with the Person of Jesus as manifested in Scripture. They genuinely love the Bible
for their experience of it.
Type 3 EC's are too deeply compassionate to be a threat to anything or anyone. Examples: occasionally NotReady.