Bible and Theology on Authority Of Scripture

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1 Corinthians 15:24-28, Colossians 1:16-18, Luke 24:27, John 5:39, Revelation 19:13

When Christ is recognized as our final authority, as the One who will deliver his kingdom over to the Father of all-in-all, then the whole of Scripture will find its rightful place in humble service o...

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The Word of Scripture

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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The Word of Scripture should never stop sounding in your ears and working in you all day long, just like the words of someone you love. And just as you do not analyze the words of someone you love, bu...

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Scripture Filled with Non-Heroic Figures

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Eugene H. Peterson

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Genesis 12:1-13, Genesis 27:35, Exodus 2:12, 2 Samuel 11:, Matthew 26:74

One of the first things that strikes us about the men and women in Scripture is that they were disappointingly non- heroic. We do not find splendid moral examples. We do not find impeccably virtuous m...

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The Power of Four: Spiritual Transformation from Reading Scripture

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The Pastor's Workshop

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Does reading the Bible really change us? Does it have the ability, through the power of the Holy Spirit, to shape and form our characters? That's what The Center for Bible Engagement wanted to fin...

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N. T. Wright and Michael Bird

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Matthew 28:18, John 14:6, John 1:18, Matthew 7:29

Jesus did not tell his disciples that all authority is vested in the books that they would write; he insisted that it was vested in his own person. And yet Jesus’ authority operates through the New Te...

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Oscar Cullmann

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2 Peter 1:20-21, 2 Timothy 3:16-17, Psalm 119:105, Proverbs 30:5, Hebrews 4:12

The books which were to form the future canon forced themselves on the Church by their intrinsic apostolic authority, as they do still, because the Kyrios Christ speaks in them.

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The Survival of Scripture

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The Pastor's Workshop

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Isaiah 40:8, 2 Timothy 3:16, Joshua 1:8, Isaiah 55:11, Matthew 5:18

Nahum Sarna points out in Understanding Genesis that it is a remarkable fact that the Old Testament exists at all. Most ancient texts have not survived. Ancient Israel did not spread its works by mi...

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The Power of Scripture

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Mahatma Gandhi

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Hebrews 4:12, Jeremiah 23:29, Isaiah 55:10-11, Romans 1:16

Mahatma Gandhi speaking to Christians, “You Christians have in your keeping a document with enough dynamite in it to blow the whole of civilization to bits; to turn society upside down; to bring peace...

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The Analogy of Faith

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R. C. Sproul

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Genesis 1:26–27, Exodus 3:1–14, Isaiah 53:3–6, Luke 24:25–27 , Romans 3:21–26, Psalm 110:1

When the Reformers broke with Rome and claimed the view that the Bible was to be the supreme authority of the church (sola Scriptura), they were very careful to define basic principles of interpretati...

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Paul E. Little

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2 Timothy 3:16, 2 Peter 1:20-21, Exodus 4:12, 1 Samuel 3:19, Jeremiah 1:9

The biblical sense of inspiration means God so superintended the writers of Scripture that they wrote what he wanted them to write, disclosing the exact truth he wanted conveyed.

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Can you Grasp the Word of God?

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The Pastor's Workshop

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Jeremiah 20:9 , Deuteronomy 6:4–9, Isaiah 55:10–11, Hebrews 4:12, 2 Timothy 3:16–17, Psalm 119:105

There’s a story that used to make the rounds about the German theologian Paul Tillich. Tillich’s theology was considered dangerous by many Christians in the U.S. Supposedly one time after delivering a...

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How Biblical Authors Loved Scripture

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Paul E. Little

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Ezekiel 3:3, Job 23:12, Colossians 3:16, Psalm 119:105, Jeremiah 15:16, Romans 12:12, Jeremiah 20:9, Psalm 19:10, Psalm 119:160, Hebrews 4:12, Psalm 19:7

The people God used to record his words were themselves uncommonly moved by them. They said the Word of God is honey in my mouth (Ezekiel 3:3) spiritual food for the hungry (Job 23:12) dwel...

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How Canonicity and Love Go Together

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Susan Lim

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John 1:1, Deuteronomy 10:2, Deuteronomy 31:24-26, 2 Kings 22:8

Love Loving the Word of God is a great pursuit, but it’s not always easy. Like most love relationships, there are inevitable highs and lows. And as teachers of the Bible, many of us walk a delicate...

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In the sixteenth century the Reformers declared

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R. C. Sproul

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Genesis 1:1–3 , Exodus 20:1–17, Daniel 6:16–23, Luke 10:25–37, Romans 3:21–26, Psalm 119:105

In the sixteenth century the Reformers declared their total confidence in what they called the perspicuity of Scripture. What they meant by that technical term was the clarity of Scripture. They maint...

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A Scriptural Backing for Pursuing Justice

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Justin Giboney

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Isaiah 59:14-17, Micah 6:8, 2 Chronicles 19:6–7, Romans 13:1, Luke 4:18–19, Psalm 72:4, Romans 13:4, Amos 5:15

The prophet Isaiah describes God as a purveyor of righteousness and justice continually, and speaks to God’s expectation that his children will bring about righteousness and justice as well. Justice i...

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A Conscience Held Captive by the Word of God

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R. C. Sproul

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Jeremiah 20:7–11 , 1 Kings 22:13–28 , Exodus 32:19–26 , Acts 5:27–29, 2 Timothy 3:14–17, Psalm 119:89–93

When asked to recant of his writings, Luther replied, “Unless I am convinced by sacred Scripture or by evident reason, I cannot recant. For my conscience is held captive by the word of God and to act ...

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Why Are Our Bibles Different? Part 2: Let's Talk Translations

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Brian Dembowczyk

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KJV, ESV, NIV, NLT, NASB, RSV, NRSV, the Message—What's the Difference? If the people we serve are to be a people of the Book, they need to be a people who know the Book. Of course...

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Why Are Our Bibles Different? Part 1: Our Bibles' Sources

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Brian Dembowczyk

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Why Are Our Bibles Different? Wait a minute… why does your Bible have lowercased lord while mine has capitalized Lord ? That was a question one of my small group members asked as we studied Ge...

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He Breathed on Them

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John 20:19-23, Genesis 2:7, 1 Kings 17:17-24, Ezekiel 37:9- 10

[A] vivid scene from the Gospel of John [John 20:19-23]. It’s intimate from the start-a stunningly private scene that occurs behind locked doors among dear friends. The scene begins with a friendly gr...

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God's Word...

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The Pastor's Workshop

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Psalm 119:89, Isaiah 40:8, Matthew 5:18; 24:35, Hebrews 12:25- 28, 1 Peter 1:25

Addressing the clergy gathered at the Diet of Augsburg in 1530 was a pivotal moment in the Protestant Reformation. Luther wrote, “God’s Word is more ancient than you and will also be newer and more...

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Northrop Frye

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Exodus 17:8-16, Joshua 6:1-20, 1 Samuel 17:45-47, Ephesians 6:10-18, 2 Timothy 4:7-8, Psalm 144:1-2

The style [of the Bible] is of the battlefield rather than the cloister.

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Søren Kierkegaard’s Advice on Reading the Bible

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Phillip Yancey

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Genesis 22:1-14, Exodus 14:21-31, Micah 6:6-8, Matthew 22:36-40 , James 1:22-25, Psalm 119:105

Søren Kierkegaard offers two suggestions for the reader who tackles difficult portions of the Bible. First, read it like a love letter, he says. As you struggle with language, culture, and other barri...

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A Criticism for Higher Criticism in Biblical Studies

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Craig Evans

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Isaiah 55:8-9, Job 38:1-4, Proverbs 3:5-7, Colossians 2:8, John 20:27-29, Psalm 19:1-2

The New Testament scholar Craig Evans makes a compelling observation about how the academy can sometimes hinder the church through overly skeptical scholarship: Some scholars seem to think that th...

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Lesslie Newbigin

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John 6:15, Matthew 5:38-39, Matthew 7:24-27, Matthew 15:1-9, Matthew 16:13-17, John 18:36, Luke 4:18-19, Acts 9:1-9, Psalm 1:

Jesus is understood in the light of the assumptions which control our culture. When “reason” is invoked as a parallel or supplementary authority to “Scripture” and “tradition,” what is happening is t...

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A Strange Relationship

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Matthew Y. Emerson

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Confession of Faith

Evangelicals, in my experience, have a strange relationship with both the three ecumenical creeds—Nicene, Apostles’, and Athanasian—and with a particular affirmation of the latter two: that Jesus “des...

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The Gift of Scripture

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Alan Fadling

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"Rub Some Bible" on It? My wife Gem and I were discussing a podcast she’d heard in which the host talked about quoting the Bible “for those who feel the need for that sort of authority.” ...

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Tear it out!

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Bryan Chapell

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Dr. William Evans, who pastored College Church from 1906–1909, was an unusually accomplished man. He had the entire King James Version of the Bible memorized as well as the New Testament of the Americ...

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Christ’s Authority is of the Greatest Significance

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J. Norval Geldenhuys

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The fact as such that Jesus possesses supreme divine authority is, even apart from its being acknowledged by all New Testament authors and by the whole of the Early Church, of the greatest significanc...

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Ephesians 5:22-6:9 | The Mystery of Christ and the Church

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Bradley Long

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Ephesians 5:22-33, Ephesians 6:1-9

Context I had a Bible professor in college who liked to say, “All Scripture is cultural!” He didn’t mean that the truth of who God is changes in different cultures. What he meant was that our God ch...

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God’s Word and Calvinism vs. Arminianism

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Charles Spurgeon

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It has been my earnest endeavor ever since I have preached the Word, never to keep back a single doctrine that I believe to be taught of God. It is time that we had done with the old and rusty systems...

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