is willing to acknowledge as an authentic account of what Jesus said and did. Ronald N. Nash, p.81, 1994. How many times we see and hear this in today’s world how people want to see Jesus Christ the way they want too rather than to receive what the Bible says about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. But Nash does not stop there but Nash goes on to say “Sir Norman Anderson faults Hick for greatly exaggerating the paucity of positive evidence we have about the one to whom he refers as the largely unknown
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Short Essay on Inspiration and Inerrancy of the Bible Living in a Fallen world, people tend to search for answers to life’s questions in places they should not be looking. This causes them to belittle the actual source of answers God has provided for us, the Bible. I find it hard to explain God’s authority to an unbelieving individual talk less of the Bible’s authority. If a person doesn’t believe the bible, it can be a task to convince them that it has any authority. It is easy to explain the
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associating lightness with purity and righteousness and darkness with wickedness and evil; thus, crafting a sterile Son of God. Therefore, due to cultural memory, the problem of bias was introduced through misinterpretation of symbolic language in the Bible; hence hindering our understanding of religions. However, a counterclaim might be
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“The Beauty of Nature” The poems The Tyger by William Blake and Work without hope by Samuel Coleridge seems to relate to one another. The characters of these two poems lack appreciation of the beauty of nature that is around them; whether it is because of their constant questioning or emotional issues. These two characters seem to have something that holds them back from appreciating the true beauty in life. A close analysis of The Tyger and Work without hope allows us to examine human nature and
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Verses Devotional Study Studying the Old Testament in the bible in an academic setting and a devotional setting, are honestly completely different. There are certain characteristics that are the same, however, for the most part they are not the same. In this paper I intend to discuss what makes the academic and devotional settings similar, what makes them different, and also why it is important to study both of them. When viewing the bible in these manners it gives you a better understanding of his
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How Can We Know the Bible Is the Word of God? A Religion Profile from International Students, Inc. The Question Posed Christians claim the Bible is God’s Word. That means that they believe the Bible is a verbal revelation from God that makes it unique from every other book. But how can such a claim be verified? First, we would expect certain things to be true about a book from God. Such characteristics might also be true about humanly-authored books, but we would expect that, at the very least
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woke up to the buzz of my alarm, had breakfast, and was on my way to the park where I have my daily Bible study. However, on this day, my time at the park did not go according to routine as normal. A jogger that regularly runs through the park suddenly approached me. He told me his name, but the next words that came out of his mouth were: “How do you sit there morning after morning and read that Bible. What drives you to do it, and what do Christians find so authoritative about it?” I didn’t respond
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The members came voluntarily and were not forced to join. They were initiated through blood sacrifices of animal offerings. “Some of the mysteries included fasting, sacrifice, frenzied dancing and colorful processions, reenactments of the drama of their deity’s wanderings, life, or entrance into immortality, orgiastic rites, and communal meals. The gods of the mystery religions were originally fertility gods of agriculture, and the rites which initially secured crop and livestock productivity
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believe in inerrancy because the Bible teaches it own inerrancy. We should accept the Bible’s claim about itself. So the Bible’s authority comes from the inspiration of GOD, because God is the author of the Bible. Biblical Authority must begin with God himself. For in him all authority is located. God is his own authority, for there is nothing outside of Him on which his authority was founded. So the Bible is GOD’s word and if there was nothing before GOD to base the Bible on then GOD is his own authority
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Violence has existed for as long as there were men on Earth to take notice of it. Killings in nature do not fit into the category of violence since predatory animals kill to sustain themselves and remains the only option available to them. In the history of human civilization, man has never needed to kill another man in order to keep himself alive such as in the animal kingdom. A man’s basic needs can easily be met without the loss of another’s life. However, as a result of war, genocide, and
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