They want to know what God has said. But to allow that it contains error implies God has mishandled inspiration and has allowed His people to be deceived for centuries until modern scholars disentangled the confusion. In short, the Maker muddled the instructions. A church without the authority of Scripture is like a crocodile without teeth; it can open its mouth as wide and as often as it likes—but who cares?
Thankfully, God has given us His inspired, inerrant, and infallible Word. His people can speak with authority and boldness, and we can be confident we have His instructions for our lives. You're almost done! Please follow the instructions we emailed you in order to finish subscribing. Answers in Genesis is an apologetics ministry , dedicated to helping Christians defend their faith and proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ. View Cart. Apologetics Web Series.
Apologetics by Brian H. Share: Email Using: Gmail Yahoo! Outlook Other. Inspiring or Expiring? With these two acts of God —breathing out His Word and carrying the writers along by the Spirit—we can come to a definition of inspiration: The Holy Spirit moved men to write. He allowed them to use their own styles, cultures, gifts, and character. He allowed them to use the results of their own study and research, write of their own experiences, and express what was in their minds.
At the same time, the Holy Spirit did not allow error to influence their writings. He overruled in the expression of thought and in the choice of words. Thus, they recorded accurately all God wanted them to say and exactly how He wanted them to say it in their own character, styles, and languages. How Much Is Inerrant? Plenary and verbal inspiration means the Bible is God-given. We have the record of men lying e.
But we can be sure these are accurate records of what took place. At times different words may be used in recounting what appears to be the same incident.
For example, Matthew refers to John the Baptist carrying the sandals of the Messiah, whereas John refers to him untying them. John preached over a period of time, and he would repeat himself; like any preacher he would use different ways of expressing the same thing. It is important to understand that the doctrine of inerrancy only applies to the original manuscripts. What Does the Bible Claim? Paul Believed in Verbal Inspiration Paul based an argument upon the fact that a particular word in the Old Testament is singular and not plural.
Self-authentication To say the Bible is the Word of God and is therefore without error because the Bible itself makes this claim is seen by many as circular reasoning.
Who Believes This? Inerrancy Governs Our Response to the Conclusions of Science If we believe the Bible contains errors, then we will be quick to accept scientific theories that appear to prove the Bible wrong.
Inerrancy Governs Our Attitude to the Preaching of Scripture A denial of biblical inerrancy always leads to a loss of confidence in Scripture both in the pulpit and in the pew. Conclusion A church without the authority of Scripture is like a crocodile without teeth; it can open its mouth as wide and as often as it likes—but who cares?
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Return to Book Page. With the deluge of communication around us-books, newspapers, blogs, journals, and magazines all insisting that their view of the world is most compelling-which should we trust?
This is no small question. In fact, our answer has eternal implications. The twelve-session Why We Believe the Bible Study Guide and DVD are designed to help study groups and classes explore the cla With the deluge of communication around us-books, newspapers, blogs, journals, and magazines all insisting that their view of the world is most compelling-which should we trust? The twelve-session Why We Believe the Bible Study Guide and DVD are designed to help study groups and classes explore the claim that the Bible stands above all others as the book of books, pointing infallibly to the King of kings.
Through the DVD teaching of Pastor John Piper and the five guided assignments per week, participants will study biblical texts and discuss probing questions to help them see why the Bible alone is worthy of our confidence.
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More filters. Sort order. Jul 07, Lynda rated it it was amazing Shelves: bible-studies. Maybe the best Bible study we've done yet. All knowledge begins with God. This stands as a moral judgment, not a statement about IQ or educational attainment. A very smart person can drive off a cliff and be smashed on the rocks.
If you leave God out of the calculation, you have missed the central fact of the universe. You are wrong at the very core of life, and therefore life itself will remain a mystery to you. Did you know that today September 30, is the first-ever International Blasphemy Day? You can find a host of these videos on YouTube where ex-Christians many of them young people renounce their faith and invite God to judge them.
There are a number of ways to respond to this, and the least effective would be to get angry. Those of us who believe in God need not be threatened by those who do not believe or by former believers who now are doubters or agnostics or atheists.
I do think it is sad to consider young people raised in the church who now find it necessary to publicly renounce a faith that never really took hold. Consider two simple words.
God is. Miss that and you can be right about a lot of other things and still be wrong where it matters most. Since what may be known about God is plain to them , because God has made it plain to them. God has revealed himself so clearly that no one can miss it.
Even though men suppress the truth about God v. Everyone knows something about God! No one has ever lived who missed this revelation. The truth was there for all to see, so plainly laid out that no one could miss it.
No one could miss the truth about God. It means that the revelation of God in nature strikes the heart of every man. Paul is not suggesting that nature contains a revelation about God which every man may see. To the contrary, Paul is saying that every man actually sees the revelation and every man actually understands it to some degree.
That explains why every culture on earth has some conception of a Supreme Being-however flawed it might be. Man was made to look for answers outside of himself. He is incurably religious in that sense. Our hearts are restless until they find rest in you. The heavens preach a sermon about the wonders of our great God. God so arranged the universe that light from heaven streams in on every side.
You have to cover your face not to see it. A week ago I flew to Washington state in the Pacific Northwest, to a little town near the Canadian border called Sumas. To my surprise because I had never been there before , the whole area is a verdant paradise.
Because of the abundant rainfall, it is actually a lush rainforest. On my final day there, John Bargen, the founder of the conference center, picked me up in his ATV and took me for a ride so I could see the massive cedar trees that cover the property.
At one point we got out of the ATV, and John took out a tape measure and walked all the way around the most massive cedar tree I had ever seen. It turned out to be 18 feet in circumference and towered feet above us, creating a massive green canopy overhead. John said the tree was probably years old. As we made our way back to the main lodge, he showed me the beautiful gardens they had planted over the last 35 years. Then I saw that someone had planted flowers in a certain pattern on the hillside:.
They might conclude that this was a fantastic freak of nature, that somehow the flowers had come together entirely by chance to spell those three words. It could happen. You are free to believe that if you like. And you can also presume that millions of years of wind and rain and erosion produced the faces of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt on Mount Rushmore.
Opinions are free. Think what you want. But I prefer to believe that just as loving hands planted the flowers at Cedars Springs, and wise hands carved the faces on Mount Rushmore, even so the hands of Almighty God carefully crafted the universe.
But just as a watch points to a watchmaker, just as Mt. Rushmore points to a dedicated architect, just as The Old Man and the Sea points to Ernest Hemingway, the beauty and order and complexity of the universe points directly to Almighty God, the Ultimate Designer of all things.
Every rock, every tree, every river, every ocean, every star in the sky-they all bear the Divine DNA that points back to the God who created all things. He must have had a mighty hand to scoop out the Royal Gorge in Colorado.
He is as infinite as the dark recesses of the mighty Atlantic Ocean. Each snowflake testifies to his uniqueness. The changing colors of the Great Smoky Mountains proclaim his creativity. No one can miss the message. God has left his fingerprints all over this world.
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