“I have no creed but the Bible,” is a common quip today in some church circles. As bold and spiritual as it may sound, it is actually very problematic. Some people hear the words sola Scriptura and think that it teaches what amounts to “no creed but the Bible.” But […]
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Right out of the gate, the letter to the Hebrews establishes two things very clearly: there is a supernatural reality to our world that God created, and Jesus rules over it. But for people like us, living in a world where the natural seems all too real and powerful, that
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This is the fourth installment in our series on the Gospel authors. We’ve covered Matthew, Mark, and Luke-Acts. Did the apostle John write the Gospel of John? That would be considerable evidence that the Gospel of John is historically reliable if it was written by an eyewitness who walked and
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Our church recently went through the book of Acts together. One member of the church told me after our study of Acts, she has come to a greater appreciation for the Apostle Paul. Reading of his missionary journeys where we see his boldness in preaching and his willingness to suffer
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The great skeptic David Hume said witnesses should be unbiased if we’re going to consider them credible. So when skeptics look at the New Testament documents, they often ask: How can you say they are reliable when they were written by the converted? These are biased accounts written by biased
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Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘You shall worship (proskyneō) the Lord your God and serve Him only.’” Luke 4:8 Then Jesus said to him, “Go, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship (proskyneō) the Lord your God and serve Him only.’” Matthew 4:10 The idea that there is
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