A friend of mine named Robert and I recently got together for lunch. Robert had passed along a link to a CNN.com article entitled "Bible has some shocking 'family values'” and wanted some help answering the claims that were made in it. He wanted to provide a good, solid, Biblical response to his brother-in-law who had sent it to him.
Once we had ordered lunch, we got down to business.
"The guy who wrote the article, Michael Coogan, makes three claims that we should discuss", I said. "Let's start at the top."