IS THE BIBLE RELIABLE? PART 1 (2 OF 7)
Scripture: Luke 1:1-4, 2 Timothy 3:16-17, 2 Peter 3:15-16
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Is the Bible Reliable? Part 1 (2 of 7)
Series: Apologia
Wyman Richardson
Luke 1:1-4; 2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 3:15-16
If you grew up in church, it is likely that one of the first songs you ever sang as a child went like this:
Jesus loves me
This I know
For the Bible
Tells me so
Little ones
To Him belong
They are weak
But He is strong
Yes, Jesus loves me
Yes, Jesus loves me
Yes, Jesus loves me
The Bible tells me so
It is a sweet and, indeed, powerful little song...and it is gloriously true! The song makes a fundamental theological assertion: Jesus loves me. Then it twice gives the basis for our ability to know this fact: ''the Bible tells me so.'' This little song also points implicitly to a historical reality: the fact that the Church throughout time has stood confidently upon the claims of the Bible and what it says about God and us. But today that little statement, ''the Bible tells me so,'' is much more likely to be met with indifference or outright scorn than with confidence.
There can be no question that the major attacks on Christianity today are centered around the Bible. The average college student today or the average person with a normal amount of exposure to the major media outlets today will have heard numerous times that the Bible is unreliable, that it was written so far after the events that they purport to record that it cannot be trusted, that powerful leaders and churchmen altered the true message of the Bible to make it say what they wanted it to say, and that what we have is riddled with errors and contradictions and outright lies. In truth, the fundamental confidence in the Bible that many of you grew up feeling and seeing around you has largely been eroded in modern culture. More than that, any weight that the statement, ''Because the Bible says so...'' might have had at a certain point in our cultural history is by and large gone today.
Because of this, the Church needs to talk about how we got the Bible a ...
Series: Apologia
Wyman Richardson
Luke 1:1-4; 2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 3:15-16
If you grew up in church, it is likely that one of the first songs you ever sang as a child went like this:
Jesus loves me
This I know
For the Bible
Tells me so
Little ones
To Him belong
They are weak
But He is strong
Yes, Jesus loves me
Yes, Jesus loves me
Yes, Jesus loves me
The Bible tells me so
It is a sweet and, indeed, powerful little song...and it is gloriously true! The song makes a fundamental theological assertion: Jesus loves me. Then it twice gives the basis for our ability to know this fact: ''the Bible tells me so.'' This little song also points implicitly to a historical reality: the fact that the Church throughout time has stood confidently upon the claims of the Bible and what it says about God and us. But today that little statement, ''the Bible tells me so,'' is much more likely to be met with indifference or outright scorn than with confidence.
There can be no question that the major attacks on Christianity today are centered around the Bible. The average college student today or the average person with a normal amount of exposure to the major media outlets today will have heard numerous times that the Bible is unreliable, that it was written so far after the events that they purport to record that it cannot be trusted, that powerful leaders and churchmen altered the true message of the Bible to make it say what they wanted it to say, and that what we have is riddled with errors and contradictions and outright lies. In truth, the fundamental confidence in the Bible that many of you grew up feeling and seeing around you has largely been eroded in modern culture. More than that, any weight that the statement, ''Because the Bible says so...'' might have had at a certain point in our cultural history is by and large gone today.
Because of this, the Church needs to talk about how we got the Bible a ...
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