Belief and Faith in The Word Course Content Establishing Credentials How the Bible was put together The Dead Sea Scrolls The Apocrypha Cults and others Evolution and its Blasphemy Establishing Credentials ID: 513291
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Our Bible and its Authority
Belief and Faith in The WordSlide2
Course Content
Establishing Credentials
How the Bible was put together.
The Dead Sea Scrolls
The Apocrypha
Cults and others
Evolution and its Blasphemy. Slide3
Establishing Credentials
When examining the authenticity and absolute
authority of the
Holy Bible, it is very important that one doesn’t just examine the Holy Scriptures, but a
thorough examination of the
Teacher
.
We have already done a course on
God’s Credentials when we studied His Attributes
but what about me?
Who am I
? Why should you listen to Me?Slide4
My Credentials (non-secular)
I am a qualified teacher and have a Bachelors Degree in Education.
My specialist subject is Science ( I have also taught Maths.)
I was a qualified Science Mentor
I was also An Advanced Skills Teacher
I have been taught to teach, Teachers!!
I have not been to Bible School
(
OO!
)Slide5
My Calling
My Mentor has been the Holy Spirit.
For the first few years of my Christian life I listened/studied to over 100 hour long sermons from Roger Price on various topics (excellent Bible teacher) and others.
I have listen to and researched 100s of topics from The Word of God over the years
I am considered by others Gifted and called.Slide6
Why should you know the Bible?
But
sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and
always
be
ready to
give
a
defence
to everyone
who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you
, with
meekness
and
fear
; (1Pe 3:15)
It is every persons right on the earth to ask you about your faith.
It is also your duty to give a defence.Slide7
How can I defend what I don’t know?
Remind
them
of these things, charging
them
before the Lord not to strive about words to no profit, to the ruin of the hearers. (2Ti 2:14)
Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. (2Ti 2:15)
But shun profane
and
idle babblings, for they will increase to more ungodliness. (2Ti 2:16
)Slide8
Christianity is not mere Blind Faith
As emphasized by theologian D. James Kennedy (Ph.D. in Religious Education),
the claim
that
belief
in
Christianity produces an irrational, uneducated, unintelligent, or unintellectual view of life is completely false.
And
the
statement
that unbelief
produces a rational and intelligent and enlightened view of the universe is equally false
.
Blind
faith,
is faith without evidence,
which would be superstition
.
The Bible does not call us to blind faith. Slide9
Reasoning
Facts
first – we go to the Bible read what God has done before.
Faith
next – God has done it before we have confidence He will/can do it again
Experience
– the nourishment for the ‘Muscle of Faith’. We get to see it!!!!Slide10
Our Faith will be attacked
People have a right to ask you about your faith and why you believe the BIBLE is
FACT.
We should be able to look to our faith and let others look at it as well.
Attacks usually come in the form of ‘Where do you think life came from’ (we will address that later).Slide11
How does the attack come?
First of all let me arm you with equally stinging quips for the unbeliever that assails you with his/her evidence.
They will attack the Bible:
They will quote Scholars and will not have researched things themselves.
All they want to do is discredit you with some article they have read that fits in with their thinking and belief (faith).Slide12