Slice 3 Foundation Of Christ

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Biola Statement of Faith

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The Bible consisting the Old & New Testament

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The God of the Bible: Biblical worldview:

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is a personal God
He speaks & communicate

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Communication of God's Word:
A. God Himself:

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1. Mt. Sinai (exodus 20)"And God spoke all these words"
2. "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased."--Baptism of Jesus (Matt 3:17)
3. "This is my Son, my chosen One; listen to him!"--Transfiguration ( Matt 17:1-8)

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B. Jesus: is the word (John 1:1&14)

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"And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us"

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C. Prophets:

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God puts His words in the mouth. (Deut 18:15-18)

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D. Creation: (Ps 19:1, Rom 1:19-20)

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E. In written Form:
1. Written by: God (Deut 4:13)
2. Written by prophets: Moses, joshuah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, ect.
3. Written by: Apostles and others: John.

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Decree of God= The word of God that causes. (Ps 33:6,9)

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A. Creates the World (Ps 33:6,9)
B. Sustains the World (Hebrew 1:3)
C. Gives Life (physical & Spiritual)
D. Efficatious

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(Is 55:11)

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"so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it."

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Our Response to God's Word:

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A. Pay attention
B. Recognize
C. Obey
D. Meditate
E. Delight in

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REVELATION:
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The Bible supernatural revelation of God.

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A. Our Need for Divine Revelation:

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1. Infinite/Finite gap
2. Creator/ Creator gap
3. Holy/sinsful gap
4. Noetic Effects of sin

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B. We can know God:

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Truly But not Exhaustively

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C. Revelation in the Bible:

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Key passage: Daniel 2

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Revelation: General & Special:
A. 2 Primary forms of Divine Revelation.

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Key passage: Ps 19
1. General revelation-innature
2. Special Revelation-in scripture

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B. General Revelation:

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1.Avenues of Genearl Revelation:
a) Creation Rom 1:18-23
b) Conscience Rome 2:13

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2) Effect of:

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a) knowledge of God's Existence Creator.
b) We are Accountable for this knowledge.

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C. Special Revelation:

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1. Avenues of:
a) Primary source: The Bible.

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2. Effect of:

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a) knowlege of God's salvation (redeemer)
b) knowledge of Jesus (2 Cor 4:6)
c) Knowledge of the mystery of the gospel.

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D. Integration of the Two Books:

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(1Cor 2:6-16) "But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God...These things God has revealed to us through the Spirit."

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INSPIRATION & CANON
1. Inspiration:

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Primarily refer to the text not the person.

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A. biola Statement of Faith
B. Inspiration Terms: The Bible is the verbal. Plenary inspired Word of God.

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1. Inspired--Produced by God, "God breathed"
2. Verbal--The very language used.
3. Plenary--All, the entirely

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C inspiration: 2 Key passages:

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1. 2Tim 3:16-17 "All Scripture is breathed out by god and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every god work.

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The What of inspiration

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2. 2Peter 1:19-20

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The How inspiration

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D. Inspiration: How did it work.
1. Slogan: The Bible is the Word of God in the words of men.
2. Product: The word of God, exactly as God wanted to be, but it retains the "personality" of its authors.
3. Exactly how this works in a mystery.

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Canon:
The word "canon" is:

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Rule or standard of measure

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C. Canon: OT &NT

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1. OT
a) Books added.
b) Completed after Ezra, Nehemiah & Esther (435BC)
2. Holy Spirit: Departed from Israel about 400BC.
3. NT:
a)christ the word of God (hebrew1)
b) Holy Spirit reminds Apostles Paul & others.

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D. Canon: Confirmation

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1. Confirmation by Early Church
a) Gradual Acceptance
b) Muratorian Fragment (170)
c) Athanasius (367) Jerome (370). Hippo and Carthage (393)

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E. Canon: Keys

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1. Key1: Church Recognized the inspiration of these books, it did not Canonize grant inspiration them. Example: The "invented Jenny"
2. Key 2: The Role of the Holy Spirit.
a) Inspiration
b) Preservation
c) Recognition

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INERANCY:
Biola Statement of Faith: Scripture of NT are without error misstatement scripture moral of record of historical fact.

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Inerrancy: Terminology:
A. Definitions:
1. Infallible-Incapable of error in Spiritual Matters.
2. Inerrant-entirely time, in every matter.
B. Limited Inerrancy View (Some of Bible)
100% Infallible
Not 100% Inerrant.

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C. Evangelical View:

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-All of Bible
-100% infallible
-100% inerrant

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D. Statement of Evangelical Position

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Inerrancy is the view that the Bible in its original autographs and correctly interpreted, is entirely true in all that it affirms, whether in doctrine or ethics or to the social, physical, or life sciences.

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E. Every Bible is inerrant?

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-Murders Bible (1795)
-Wicked Bible (1631)
-Judas Bible (1613)
-Scottish Bible (1705)

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Inerrancy: Text and Tramsission::

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A. Autograph: Original
B. Manuscript: Copies
C. Text: The content
D. Translation: Text into another language.
E. Transmission: Copying translating, recopying & retranslating text into another language.
F. Textual Criticism: science of determining the original text.

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Transmission of Text Timeline: zero Autograph

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God inspired: Man--> holy Bible
Text-->Text criticism
all is Manuscript.

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The pain purpose: we don't need the autograph.

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Big Question: Does this mean that my English translation is not inerrant?
Answer: While not technically inerrant, all good English translation are functionally inerrant.

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Inerrancy: Key

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A. Distinguish Text from Manuscript.

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Objections to inerrancy:

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A. Bible reports the impossible (resurrection)
B. Not explicity taught in Scripture.
C. Not taught in history of the church.
D. Inerrancy: unfalsifiable
E. There are grammatical error
F. Mistakes of fact

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Inerrancy: Implication of Rejecting:

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1. Eccl 1:5 The sun rises and the sun goes down.
2. Mark 4:31 a grain of mustard seed...is the smallest of all the seeds on earth.
3. Ps 14:1 There is no God.
4. Gospel disagree who was the empty tomb.

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Internal Evidence:

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Pr 30:5 Every Word of God proves true; Implication of Rejecting..
A. Human Reason becomes judge and jury
B. Adds a dangerous step concerning interpretation.

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Is it impossible for God to lie:?

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Q1: What does this passage say
Q2: Is this passage true?
Q3: What is it.

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External Evidence:

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Aristotle:Date: 350BC; Oldest Manuscript=1100AD; # of Manuscripts=49; Time Span=1400

Plato: Date=300BC; Oldest Manuscript = 900AD; # of Manuscript=7; Time span=1200

Plain: Date= 100AD; Oldest Manuscript= 850 AD; # of Manuscript =7; Time Span= 750

New Testament: Date= 500AD; Oldest Manuscript= 15,200; # of Manuscript= 5600; Time Span= -100yrs

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Clarity

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Is the Bible EASY or HARD to understand?

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What the Bible says:

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1. On the one hand, Sometimes hard

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Key phrase: 2 Peter 3:15-16

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"And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."

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2. On the other understandable.

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Ps 19:7.
"The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple." That's an errancy.

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B. Definition

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The clarity of Scripture means that the Bible is written in such a way that its teachings are able to be understood by all who will read it seeking God's help and being willing to follow it." Dr. Wayne Grudem

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Illumination

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A. Definition:
The Work of the Holy Spirit by which he makes the Scripture both understandable and applicable to an individual's life." Dr. Bruce Ware.

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Role of the Holy Spirit:

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1. Aid in our understanding of the Bible (Content)
2. Aid in our acceptance of the Bible (application)

2Tim 2:7
1Cor 2:14

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The problem of Biblical Illiteracy:

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Necessity:
Oake's proposed explanation:
We no longer believe the necessity and sufficiency of the Bible.

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Necessity simply means that without God's Word we have no relationship with Him.

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Bible is necessary for: knowlege of gospel. (Rom 10:13-17)

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

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Bible is not necessary for knowledge of God's existence. (Rom1)

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Sufficiency:
We have all the words from God that we need or the Bible gives us all that we need for life and Godliness. (2Tim 3:15-17)

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Applications:
1. No revelation contrary to Gospel (Gal1)

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Subtract nothing from Bible. (Don't be a Marcionite)

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2. Jesus is final revelation:

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Add nothing to the Bible (don't rewrite the Mishnah)
--Deut 4:2, 12:32, prov 30:5-6, Rev 22:18-19.

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3. If not commanded in scripture, not required or If not forbidden in Scripture, not sin.

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4. We should emphasize what scripture emphasizes.

5. When struggling, remember that the scriptures are sufficient for.

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Authority:

Acts 17:10-11

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A. Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms
B. Sola Scripture--Scripture alone

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Final Thoughts:

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1. If the Bible says it, we must listen.
2. We need NOT take ourself serious. But we MUST take the word of God seious.