Today we’re still speaking with Orlando attorney, James O. Cunningham, who has written much on the intersection of faith and politics. Not too long ago Jim wrote a fascinating article for substack entitled History Doesn’t Repeat but it Rhymes. Jim is joining us again today because we want our listeners to hear from someone who has thought deeply and carefully about the truth and values of the Christian faith must express themselves in our current truth-averse culture.
As Anchored by Truth listeners know, we believe that there are four lines of evidence that demonstrate that the Bible is the inspired, inerrant, and infallible word of God. We term those 4 lines of evidence reliable history, remarkable unity, fulfilled prophecy, and redeemed destinies. First, as both science, archeology, and human historical records amply demonstrate the Bible is historically reliable. Second, the Bible displays a remarkable unity for a book that was composed by over 3 dozen human authors who wrote over a span of 1,500 years. Third, the Bible gives evidence of supernatural origin especially through a large body of fulfilled prophecy. And the 4th line of evidence is that the Bible has resulted in an untold number of lives that have been positively changed by its transcendent message.
Jim’ life was transformed and redeemed by the scriptures. Jim has been practicing law in Florida for nearly 50 years and he also taught law classes at the Barry college of law including a class on the foundations of law. So, Jim not only knows how the law operates in our society but why it operates that way. And as we heard in our last couple of episodes of Anchored by Truth Jim has done an extensive investigation of the famous debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas as they both ran for the US Senate just prior to the civil war. Any listeners who didn’t catch that episode of Anchored by Truth can go the website for Crystal Sea Books and find them there. The Lincoln-Douglas debates were an extremely important series of political conversations because in them the two men articulated far different visions of the American democracy. And those different visions are still being expressed in the political dialog of our day.
This is episode 288.
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