the Bible. For the Bible to have authority over your life, you have to believe that God is real and that his word is truth. If that is not known in somebodies heart, the bible cannot have authority over them. The Bible says itself that it has authority given my God. The Bible is a unique text than other books from different religions. The Bible is from God himself. It is his gift to us to live by. Other religious texts were written by founders of the religion trying to find God. The Bible is not
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for the entire universe.(Denton, 1986) So when Christians claim that the God of the Bible created all the basic entities of life and the universe, some will ask what seems to be a logical question: “Who created God?” The very first verse in the Bible declares: “In the beginning God ... .” There is no attempt in these words to prove the existence of God or imply in any way that God had a beginning. In fact, the Bible makes it clear in many places that God is outside time. He is eternal, with no beginning
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Andrew writes the article as a graduate student at Fuller Theological Seminary pursuing a Master of Arts in Theology. In the exposition he presents a historical overview of the biblical inerrancy debate and reviews arguments concerning inerrancy of the bible as relevant to modern evangelicalism. Due to spatial limitations, Andrew restricts his focus to examining the views in support of and against inerrancy from four major perspectives: the slippery slope, epistemological, historical, and biblical arguments
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Christina worldview will be evaluated using Sire’s seven basic worldview questions. Spirituality Every individual views spirituality differently. The personal opinion of the author is that spirituality is the relationship between God and myself. The bible states that God desires a relationship with his people (James 2:23). Merriam-Webster defines spirituality as a state of being in religion or attachment to religious values (Merriam-Webster, Inc, 2015). Preparing for this assignment, the author discussed
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Tall Tales The Bible, as with most religious texts, uses metaphors, verbal illustrations, and allegory throughout. Regardless of historical fact or accuracy, the use of these conventions gives most biblical stories their meaning and importance. While most of the Bible makes some sense to the modern reader, there are those stories that defy the basic laws of science and fact. One such story in the Bible is a rather famous one and quite possibly the most confusing and scientifically baseless.
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Biblical Record? Often, individuals tend to regard the bible as irrelevant and inapplicable as some have drawn the conclusion the Bible is inaccurate. What if there was a way of altering this mentality, perhaps devising a method to verify the existence and validity of the bible? Biblical archaeology attempts to solve such problems through the recovery and scientific investigation of material remains of past culture, connecting them to events in the Bible, specifically the New and Old Testament (Maier, 2004)
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view everything around us determine what a worldview is to me. 2. A. The question of origin is where we begin our worldview as Christians. We start with the bible; it is where all the information we might ever need in life. The answers to all the questions like how did we get here? Where did we come from? These are all answered in the Bible; the first reference we can see this from is written in Genesis 1:1, it says here that God created everything. Also in Genesis 1:27 he has created man and woman
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Liberty University Witnessing Report: 2 Submitted to Dr. Fernando R. Abella In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of Contemporary Evangelism Evan 525- D13 LUO By Corey Johnson 4/26/15 As we through this class I have learned sharing with others is not as easy as I would like it to be. Although it is not easy I have been committed to doing this regardless of my fears. Sharing with others is a challenge for most people because of the fact that you have to be willing to receive
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you can share your knowledge of God with other people. Sharing knowledge of the Bible and God’s message prior to the last five weeks was a definite insecurity for me prior to this class. I will try to put into words how this class has benefitted my personal faith and some things that have been difficult to completely understand. The Bible begins with the book of Genesis. According to Life Application Study Bible, the definition of Genesis is the “beginnings” or “origins” (NIV). Genesis is the
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to/with each other? How specifically do you as a ministry leader teach, cultivate, and maintain “The Mind of Christ” in your area of ministry? Yes, I think we, as a body of Christ, comes together in unity in serving the Lord in a Spiritual way. The Bible says, “Behold how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the herd that rain down upon the beard, even Aaron’s beard: that went down to the skirt of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the
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