In the book of Doctrine, the authors, Mark Driscoll and Gerry Breshears, go over 13 core doctrines of the Christian faith. In this report we will be focusing on Chapter 2 of the book, which focuses on the biblical teaching of Revelation: God Speaks. In today’s day and age communication has become a necessity for our everyday lives to run smoothly. While there are many different ways that we as the human communicate, the question of how do we hear God is frequently posed. Does He speak through my spirit, through a holy man, or some ancient wisdom? One of the first things we have to understand is that God created us in His image so that we would be able to have a relationship with Him. He initiates this by making Himself known to us;
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God uses your conscience as His image bearer to convict us of sin and reveal Himself as holy and just. In a general way everyone has been introduced to God through creation, common grace, and conscience. For anyone to have a deep relationship with God they need more than general revelation; they need special revelation. Supremely He revealed Himself through Jesus Christ. Today He reveals Himself primarily through the Bible, God’s revelation of Himself to us. The Bible is composed of writings called scriptures, God’s truth to us in words. It is made up of 66 books, 39 in the Old Testament, and 27 are in the New Testament. The Old Testament is a record of time from the creation of the universe up to about 450 BC. The New Testament begins with four books, the Gospels, about the life of Jesus. It then proceeds to instruct Christians on how to live a life that reflects all Jesus taught and did during His time with us on the earth. (MAYBE ADD MORE ABOUT SCRIPTURE …show more content…
Most of the books of the New Testament were immediately accepted by the early church with only a few exceptions like Hebrews, James, and Jude. In recent years, the subject of why certain books were not accepted as Scripture has sparked interest in many people. Only the canonical Gospels in the New Testament date from the first century, while thirty so called “gospels” were written at least 100 years after Jesus came to earth. The church has known from the earliest days which books are God’s words and the Scriptures command us not to add to them. We also know that the Scriptures do not contain errors and/or contradictions. We can be positive in this belief because God does not lie in anyway and since the Scriptures are God’s Word, they cannot speak falsely
God uses your conscience as His image bearer to convict us of sin and reveal Himself as holy and just. In a general way everyone has been introduced to God through creation, common grace, and conscience. For anyone to have a deep relationship with God they need more than general revelation; they need special revelation. Supremely He revealed Himself through Jesus Christ. Today He reveals Himself primarily through the Bible, God’s revelation of Himself to us. The Bible is composed of writings called scriptures, God’s truth to us in words. It is made up of 66 books, 39 in the Old Testament, and 27 are in the New Testament. The Old Testament is a record of time from the creation of the universe up to about 450 BC. The New Testament begins with four books, the Gospels, about the life of Jesus. It then proceeds to instruct Christians on how to live a life that reflects all Jesus taught and did during His time with us on the earth. (MAYBE ADD MORE ABOUT SCRIPTURE …show more content…
Most of the books of the New Testament were immediately accepted by the early church with only a few exceptions like Hebrews, James, and Jude. In recent years, the subject of why certain books were not accepted as Scripture has sparked interest in many people. Only the canonical Gospels in the New Testament date from the first century, while thirty so called “gospels” were written at least 100 years after Jesus came to earth. The church has known from the earliest days which books are God’s words and the Scriptures command us not to add to them. We also know that the Scriptures do not contain errors and/or contradictions. We can be positive in this belief because God does not lie in anyway and since the Scriptures are God’s Word, they cannot speak falsely