Opening Question

What gives the Bible so much influence in people’s lives so many years after it was written? Isn’t it outdated, and obsolete due to the progression of science and human reason?

Introduction

This week’s lesson takes on several at-times conflicting human values, but all of which influence both the writing of the Bible, and our own interpretive lens:

Tradition

Experience

Culture

Reason

The Bible

The lesson, however, doesn’t do a great job showing how/why the Bible is such an authoritative source for our theology.

Can you think of places in the Bible where each of these is brought up or exemplified?

Tradition

The lesson ...