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Hi. You raised an objection in the article Historicity of Jesus. The word "criticism" applied to the Bible has a particular meaning, see higher criticism and lower criticism. Critical Bible scholars work according to the historical-critical method. I hope this explains the use of the word "critical" in respect to Bible scholars. Broadly speaking, critical thinking is opposed to biblical inerrancy, which assumes the whole Bible to be literally true in lack of proof (it is just assumed, not proven to be true) and despite of scholarly criticism and despite of (the lack of) historical evidence for/against it. In this sense, critical means not taking its truth for granted. Tgeorgescu (talk) 21:50, 28 August 2011 (UTC)