Grill a Christian

I asked Grok (think Elon Musk (atheist)- wikipedia) (which appears to have an antisupernatural bias built into it vis a vis bible dates and miracles), to summarize the top Western theological innovations that have compromised or undermined a high view of Biblical authority and respect for the traditions of the early church. The list it came back with was the following:

Marcan Priority and the Two-Source (or Four-Source) Theory (c. 1830s–present)
Rejects the universal patristic testimony that Matthew was written first. Widely seen as undermining the reliability of early church historical witness.

JEDP Documentary Hypothesis (Wellhausen, 1878)
Fragments the Pentateuch into four independent sources (J, E, D, P) composed centuries after Moses and redacted late (post-exilic). Directly contradicts both Mosaic authorship affirmed by Jesus and the Fathers.

Literary “Framework” or “Mythopoetic” Reading of Genesis 1–11 (mid-20th century onward)
Treats the creation account, the Fall, Flood, and Tower of Babel as theological poetry or myth rather than historical narrative with chronological intent.

Late Dating of Daniel (c. 165 BCE instead of 6th century BCE) (Porphyry revived by 19th-century criticism)
Turns detailed prophecies into vaticinium ex eventu (prophecy after the event), undermining predictive prophecy.

Isaiah “Deutero-” and “Trito-Isaiah” (Bernhard Duhm, 1892 onward)
Splits the book into at least three unrelated authors (chs. 1–39, 40–55, 56–66), rejecting single authorship and turning messianic prophecies (especially Servant Songs) into post-exilic compositions.

Q as a Reconstructed Written Source (hypothetical “Sayings Gospel,” 19th–20th century)
Posits a lost document used independently by Matthew and Luke. Widely criticized as speculative and unnecessary by conservatives.

Pauline Authorship Denial of the Pastoral Epistles (and often Ephesians, Colossians, 2 Thessalonians) (F. C. Baur and Tübingen School onward)
Removes up to seven letters from Paul’s corpus, contradicting early church attestation (2nd century onward).

Non-Historical (“Apocalyptic” or “Symbolic”) Reading of Revelation (dominant since the 20th century in much scholarship)
Treats the book as timeless symbolism rather than containing genuine predictive prophecy about the Roman Empire or the future, contra Irenaeus, Hippolytus, Victorinus, and the historicist/premillennial tradition.

Demythologization and Existential Interpretation (Rudolf Bultmann, 1941 onward)
Strips miracles, the virgin birth, bodily resurrection, and the descent into hell of their historical reality, reinterpreting them as existential or kerygmatic “myth.”

Historical-Critical Denial of Predictive Messianic Prophecy (broad 19th–21st century trend)
Reinterprets OT passages traditionally seen as directly predicting Christ (e.g., Isa 7:14, Ps 22, Isa 53, Dan 9:24–27) as referring only to contemporary events in their original context, rejecting the sensus plenior (fuller sense) affirmed by the NT writers and the Fathers.

Rejection of the longer ending of Mark (16:9–20) and John 7:53–8:11 as non-original (despite early attestation).
“New Perspective on Paul” (E. P. Sanders, Dunn, Wright) redefining justification and the role of works, seen by many conservatives as undermining the Reformation understanding.

Trajectory hermeneutics / “redemptive-movement” approach (William Webb, 2001) used to move beyond NT teaching on slavery, gender roles, and same-sex relationships.