Post by RayW on Apr 27, 2013 5:46:00 GMT -8
Post your answers to the following questions:
1. Before this session, for what reasons, if any, were you confident that the Bible is the word of God?
2. Of the evidences presented in this session for the inspiration of Scripture, what one evidence do you find most convincing?
3. It was said in class that Christianity is based upon history first, not the inspiration of Scripture. Discuss how a skeptic might need to see the biblical documents as separate pieces of literature that must historically stand on their own merits before they see them as part of the inspired whole.
4. The evidence of the individual author’s honesty is an often overlooked evidence for the historicity of Scripture. Read Judges 2:11; 3:7, 12; 4:1; 6:1; 10:6; 13:1; 17:6; 21:25 and further discuss how the recording of the nation of Israel’s perpetual failure adds to the historicity of the book of Judges.
5. How do the prophecies in Isaiah 41 and 46 tell us that God wants us to use our minds and not just believe any message that claims to be from Him?
6. The book of Isaiah was written in the seventh century B.C. We have copies of Isaiah found among the Dead Sea Scrolls that date to 150 B.C. Discuss the significance of this as an apologetic concerning the inspiration of Isaiah.
7. Read Jn. 10:26–27. The Scriptures claim to be the voice of God. Christians are told that we, by virtue of our new nature, recognize this voice. How do you hear God’s voice speaking to you when you read the Scriptures?
8. How has this lesson most challenged your thinking?
1. Before this session, for what reasons, if any, were you confident that the Bible is the word of God?
2. Of the evidences presented in this session for the inspiration of Scripture, what one evidence do you find most convincing?
3. It was said in class that Christianity is based upon history first, not the inspiration of Scripture. Discuss how a skeptic might need to see the biblical documents as separate pieces of literature that must historically stand on their own merits before they see them as part of the inspired whole.
4. The evidence of the individual author’s honesty is an often overlooked evidence for the historicity of Scripture. Read Judges 2:11; 3:7, 12; 4:1; 6:1; 10:6; 13:1; 17:6; 21:25 and further discuss how the recording of the nation of Israel’s perpetual failure adds to the historicity of the book of Judges.
5. How do the prophecies in Isaiah 41 and 46 tell us that God wants us to use our minds and not just believe any message that claims to be from Him?
6. The book of Isaiah was written in the seventh century B.C. We have copies of Isaiah found among the Dead Sea Scrolls that date to 150 B.C. Discuss the significance of this as an apologetic concerning the inspiration of Isaiah.
7. Read Jn. 10:26–27. The Scriptures claim to be the voice of God. Christians are told that we, by virtue of our new nature, recognize this voice. How do you hear God’s voice speaking to you when you read the Scriptures?
8. How has this lesson most challenged your thinking?