The Bible is a religious book. That goes without saying. For thousands of years it’s been a source of hope and direction for billions of people. Even those who don’t hold any commitment to a singular faith acknowledge the Bible as a profound literary work, even if it’s only one of many sources of divine revelation. But it seems like those who don’t hold any faith commitments at all are often left out of the picture. The caricature of those people is that they are mockingly dismissive of or vehemently opposed to the Bible. But perhaps some just don’t care about it at all. What about them?

At the same time, the Bible is in many ways a very human collection of writings, a book grounded in the human experience. And the knowledge gained by humans at any point in time is inherently limited, whether by our five senses or our finite mental capacity to understand things beyond ourselves. Christians throughout the ages have had to wrestle with what it means for the Bible to have both human and divine authors.

In this fifth episode of our Bible series, we ask, how do we balance the belief in Scripture as divine revelation with the reality of its human authors and editors. Where does one author stop and the other begin? Can a “non-faith-committed” person glean anything from the Bible? Can someone believe in evolutionary science and still be a Christian? All that and more on this edition of the podcast.