Here is a White Xn @museumofBible rep, the Associate Director of the Scholars Initiative, saying the quiet parts out loud a few days ago. https://twitter.com/Noble_Warriors/status/1271570493037051910
Introduced as "Dr. Daniel Stevens from the Museum of the Bible."
Host: "the Bible-the inspired, errant Word of God-is transformative..."

MOTB rep: "I entirely agree..."
Host: "What makes this book so special? You work at the Museum of the Bible"

MOTB rep:
"It's from God."
"It shows God working in and through humanity."
Host: "It's a history book, too...It's real history...it's not a story book. We mark history with the Bible too, correct?"

MOTB rep: "Yeah, and...the Bible wasn't written yesterday...it speaks today but we can see it as this work of God in the past working til now."
<Host plugs @museumofBible>

"You'll get to see some of these explanations that Daniel's talking about really come to life in front of you."
Host: "Where did the Bible come from?"

MOTB rep: "...It was written by, as we said before, many people-upwards of 40..."

Host: <interrupting> "But all under the inspiration of God, right?"

MOTB rep: "Yes. Yes, absolutely." <cites 2 Tim 3:16; 2 Pet 2:10>
Host: "And so God inspired the writing of the Word. What would you say about God's, um, intervention or engagement in the transmission and the preservation of the Word? ...How has it been protected from complete desecration? I mean, God's got his hands on this."
MOTB rep: "We can trust that God ensures that what he wants to be known will be known and the words he wants to be known will be known."

<repeats inaccurate apologetic about DSS being accurate; reports apologetic idea of what text criticism is>
MOTB rep: "I'm entirely confident that if you have a Bible in your hands the original or initial reading is on the page. It might be in the footnotes sometimes...but it's there. I haven't seen anything to cause me to question that."

Host: "That's a lot of words and information."
Then MOTB gives reasons for why he trusts the Bible "as a personal question." Reasons include that Jesus was raised from the dead, Old Testament prophecy is fulfilled in the NT, historical details from NT check out as historical, and we can access the most accurate reading.
Host again plugs the @museumofBible as a resource to help guests to become more confident in offering apologetic arguments for Xn faith.
This interview illustrates a (white) evangelical Xn experiencing the Museum of the Bible as affirming, not challenging or historicizing, his own pre-existing theological claims. Beliefs here echoed and endorsed by an official from @museumofBible.
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