In short, how does Christianity deal with some of the major contentions of biblical criticism towards the Old Testament?

The literalists contend the academic assertions are false (intentionally or otherwise). The accommodationists attempt to find a way to build a compromise usually at the expense of what is written in the Bible.

This is similar to what passes for science these days in regard to evolution. However with literary criticism the flaws are more apparent.

For example, the assertion of multiple authors is often based on the declaration of someone that they have detected a stylistic difference that "proves" that the same person could not have written a document attributed to him.

Using an example from evolutionary "science", the measurement of something like ice cores is hindered by the fact that the weight of the ice causes anything more than a few centuries old to be fused together. A person attempting to discover something beyond the point of differentiation has to make assumptions and interpret his measurements using "fudge factors".

Most people are bored by the details of both literary criticism and evolutionary science. They usually take at face value whatever the media tells them which is usually a distillation of what is popular or sensational.

As a literalist, I expect there to be accusations and declarations from a variety of sources against the Bible and God.


  John 15:19  If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but
  because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the
  world, therefore the world hateth you.


How does Christianity deal with biblical criticism related to the Old Testament?
I have question why is my cmd for "removing all files in directory except last 20" not working within cron but in command prompt yes.

* * * * *  ls -1tr /home/testusr/test | head -n -20 | xargs -d '\n' rm -f  &gt; /var/opt/check.log 2&gt;&amp;1


Directory contains let say 100x files which are named DATA-20140605xxxx generated minute by minute.

Thank advance for any answer.
