It’s a shame when a Christian is convinced that some very answerable claim about the faith is unanswerable simply because they were never exposed to the questions or answers that are there. Not to mention, how many people go through decades of church life without knowing even the basics of the Bible?

Recently, musician Tiffany Arbuckle Lee announced in a social media post that she has deconstructed at least a part of her faith. Lee sold a half-million records as a Christian singer. In the video, she shared her doubts on the reliability of Scripture. In an earlier statement, she took an “affirming” stance on LGBT issues. Lee is the latest in a growing list of Christian celebrities to deconstruct aspects of their Christian faith, including Kevin Max of DC Talk, Derek Webb of Caedmon’s Call, and Joshua Harris of I Kissed Dating Goodbye.

Lee’s doubts about the Bible could have been corrected in a decent Sunday morning youth group class. Questioning the reliability of the Bible, Lee said she never knew that Jesus and Paul never “hung out,” or that the Apostle was reporting events that had happened decades before he wrote. Of course, neither of these facts are a secret.

While it’s possible that a very young Paul could have met Jesus, there’s no record of that in the Bible or Church history. What we do know is that Jesus met Paul on the Road to Damascus, not long after the Resurrection. And that Paul met with Peter and James, both of whom had spent years with Jesus. And that Paul was present with all the leaders of the Church at the Council of Jerusalem. In other words, even if the idea of God’s Spirit guiding Paul is dismissed as irrelevant, Paul was closely connected with people who knew Christ well.

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