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Unloading 35 Loaded Questions for "Bible Christians" 7/35
Steve Ray has a list of 35 loaded Questions for “Bible Christians” (quotation marks his)(link to the whole list). This is number 7/35. I’m trying to provide the answers in a common format, for easy reference. 7) Where in the Bible is God’s Word restricted only to what is written down? Simple Answer(s): Nowhere that…
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Unloading 35 Loaded Questions for "Bible Christians" 7/35
Steve Ray has a list of 35 loaded Questions for “Bible Christians” (quotation marks his)(link to the whole list). This is number 7/35. I’m trying to provide the answers in a common format, for easy reference. 7) Where in the Bible is God’s Word restricted only to what is written down? Simple Answer(s): Nowhere that…
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Haiti as a Warning to America
Psalm 64:9 And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider of his doing. In a previous post we explored the possibility that the earthquake in Haiti is God’s judgment on Haiti (link to post). As we said then, it may well be God’s judgment on that…
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Judgment on Haiti (?)
Someone has claimed that Haiti’s disaster is due to the fact that they made a pact with the devil many years ago. The basic idea that they (or some small group of revolutionaries long ago) made a pact with the devil (or some evil spirit) is not necessarily incredible. It’s also not incredible that this…
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Unloading 35 Loaded Questions for "Bible Christians" 6/35
Steve Ray has a list of 35 loaded Questions for “Bible Christians” (quotation marks his)(link to the whole list). This is number 6/35. I’m trying to provide the answers in a common format, for easy reference. 6) If the authors of the New Testament believed in sola Scriptura, why did they sometimes draw on oral…
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Unloading 35 Loaded Questions for "Bible Christians" 6/35
Steve Ray has a list of 35 loaded Questions for “Bible Christians” (quotation marks his)(link to the whole list). This is number 6/35. I’m trying to provide the answers in a common format, for easy reference. 6) If the authors of the New Testament believed in sola Scriptura, why did they sometimes draw on oral…
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Adventures in Textual Discovery
Dan Wallace reports on an interesting experience he had in examining a manuscript of the New Testament (link to report). The report illustrates the steps that are, even to this day, being undertaken to preserve the text of Scripture. Of course, not every manuscript find has the same excitement to a layman as the one…
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The Jews Gave Us the Old Testament
Of course, God gave us the Old Testament by inspiration, but the point is that the apostles did not give us the Old Testament. Instead, it was an existing body of literature that was handed on to them. We see this in Scripture. Romans 3:2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them [that is,…
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Unloading 35 Loaded Questions for "Bible Christians" 5/35
Steve Ray has a list of 35 loaded Questions for “Bible Christians” (quotation marks his)(link to the whole list). This is number 5/35. I’m trying to provide the answers in a common format, for easy reference. 5) Some Protestants claim that St. Paul condemned all oral tradition (Col 2:8). If so, why does he tell…
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Unloading 35 Loaded Questions for "Bible Christians" 5/35
Steve Ray has a list of 35 loaded Questions for “Bible Christians” (quotation marks his)(link to the whole list). This is number 5/35. I’m trying to provide the answers in a common format, for easy reference. 5) Some Protestants claim that St. Paul condemned all oral tradition (Col 2:8). If so, why does he tell…