Your view of the Bible is very fundamental and important to everything about your faith!

Many Christians differ even in this crucial area. Pastor Steve will show us today in the Bible that we must not only trust the Word of God, but that to fail to do so will take us in a completely different direction.

So be ready for a verse by verse walk through and some key concepts, as Steve brings us the Word today and helps us to stay Grounded in our understanding of the Bible itself!

(1.) Importance - Your view of scripture determines everything (Francis Shaeffer, Gen 3)

(2.) Love - Your love for the scriptures (The Trinity, Jeremiah 31:33, Ezekiel 36:26, 2 Thess 2:10)

(3.) Our position on scripture - 4 Main Terms:

(a) Inspired - 2 Tim 3:16

(b) Inerrant - True: Ps 19:9, Ps 119:86, Ps 119:142 - Tested: Ps 12:6, Ps 19:7-8

(c) Authoritative - 1689 Baptist Confession of faith 1:10

(d) Sufficient - 2 Tim 3:16 - 17, 2 Pet 1:3 (Sinclair F.)

(4.) Jesus - What was Jesus’ position on scripture? (MT 4:4, Mt 22:29, Jn 17:17)

(5.) Apostles - What did the Apostle’s have to say about the scriptures and their relationship to them? (Jn 16:13, Jn 21:24, 2 Peter 1:16-20, 2 Tim 2:15, 2 Cor 6:7, Eph 1:13, Col 1:5, 2 Tim 3:16 - James 1:18)

(6.) How is the Bible commonly attacked today?

Two primary ways:

(7.) Review:

So that’s it for today’s episode on Bibliology, AKA being Grounded in Scripture.

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