Reaching the lost, equipping the Saints
The greatest external evidence of the truth of God word is the testimony and experience of those who have been impacted by it’s message.
With all this in view it is clear the the Bible is proven as the only source of objective truth and will be used as our source of absolute authority as we continue on our quest to find the Gospel as defined by the scriptures and consider it’s implications for our lives today.
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Contrary to the propaganda heard through the popular media, Science when used honestly always points to the truth of the bible… here is just one example
Historically, the most convincing evidence for evolution is the fossil record. Evolutionists claim that the fossil record displays a gradual evolution of animal and plant life from primitive forms to complex forms with transitional phases between major classes (e.g., between fish and amphibians, amphibians and reptiles, reptiles and birds, and so on).
But this scenario has no support. There is no evidence that complex life forms evolve from primitive life forms because no such transitional species between any of these groups of animals have ever been found in the tons of fossil-bearing rock recovered over the past one hundred thirty years.
We will cover science and the bible in a later production, in the mean time we suggest Answers In Genesis as a trustworthy resource on this subject.
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Today’s reading: Num 33:1–49, 1 Cor 15:12–34, Ps 28:1–9
Today’s theme: Pilgrims Progress
Today we are reminded to continue progressing and growing as we walk with the Lord in the light and power of His very real, essential and necessary resurrection. Without the full bodily resurrection of Jesus we have no hope
Moses wrote down their starting places, stage by stage, by command of the LORD, and these are their stages according to their starting places. Numbers 33:2 (ESV)
We are called to progress and grow as we journey with the Lord. The journey of the children of Israel points forward to the pilgrim like journey of every believer as we draw closer to God’s eternal Promised Land. As we walk with the Lord our faith will be tested but we must endure until the end to receive the reward. See 2 Corinthians 3:18, Hebrews 11:16, Hebrews 12:1-2.
And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 1 Corinthians 15:17–18 (ESV)
Paul was correcting some bad teaching that the Corinthian church had started to believe. This was influenced by the word around them and possibly the misinterpretation of Paul’s own teaching. They had concluded that there was no resurrection.
Paul shows them that the implication of this error was that Christ did not rise from the dead. If that were true we could not be saved and would have no hope. The resurrection of Jesus and His death on the cross are both a part of one saving act by God. Without the resurrection of Jesus Christ there is no Christian faith.
When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all. 1 Corinthians 15:28 (ESV)
Gordon Fee, a noted American-Canadian Christian theologian, comments well stating that… “Paul’s point is that in raising Christ from the dead God has set in motion a chain of events that must culminate in the final destruction of death and thus of God’s being once again, as in eternity past, “all in all.”” Fee, G. D. (1987). The First Epistle to the Corinthians (p. 759).
Oh, save your people and bless your heritage! Be their shepherd and carry them forever. Psalm 28:9 (ESV)
Hebrews 13:20 encourages us that Jesus is our great shepherd, He will carry us forever.
Most of the above post is a copy of the original notes from the same date in 2014.
Desiring God on 1 Corinthians 15
Fulfilled prophecies give clear attestation to the hand of God in human history and are some of the most important evidences for the historical reliability and truthfulness of the Old Testament. The Bible is the only religious document in existence that provides more than two thousand prophecies that validate its historical claims. These prophecies deal with Jesus Christ, the nation of Israel, other nations (e.g., Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome), cities (e.g., Tyre and Babylon), and even people (e.g., Nebuchadnezzar and Cyrus). Of course, some other religions make prophetic claims, however, in no other religion in the world has prophecy been fulfilled so completely and so accurately as that recorded in the Bible.
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Archaeology has proven that Israel derives its ancestry from-Mesopotamia, as the Bible teaches (Gen. 11:27–12:4).
Archaeology suggests that the world’s languages likely arose from a common origin, as Genesis 11 implies.
Jericho, and several other cities mentioned in the Old Testament, previously thought to be legendary by skeptics, have now been discovered by archaeologists.
This is just a very small sample from a large list of discoveries made in this field which corroborate the veracity of the Bible
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