What Do You Believe? “The Ologies”
What Do YOU Believe?
A penny for your thoughts – How much money is in the jar?
What is your greatest movie of all time?
How do you decide what you believe?
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Is there absolute truth?
There is “one faith” that was delivered “once” for “all” people!
Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. Jude 1:3 (ESV)
There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all. Ephesians 4:4-6 (NASB)
There is ONE faith (belief) that is right for everyone!
Is there a right (and wrong) belief about everything?
There are MANY Religions! There is ONE Faith!
We ALL BELIEVE in SOMETHING about EVERYTHING!
WHAT Do You Believe?
WHY do you believe …?
WHERE does your belief come from?
What is your source, basis, or authority for your beliefs?
-------------------- logos – “word”, “idea”, “logic” What is Theology? -------------------- Theos – “GOD” logos – “word”, “idea”, “logic”
Ultimate Absolute Truth MUST come from GOD!
Has God REVEALED Truth?
Man is designed to “listen” God “speaks” Man is designed to “listen”
Revelation – a making plain or an unfolding of that which is hidden.
Revelation – the self-disclosure of God to man of what is otherwise unknowable by any other means
“Revelation” is the Message that God is revealing
Sources of Revelation from God: 1 Sources of Revelation from God: 1. General Revelation: Internal – Conscience External – Creation 2. Special Revelation: Both Internal & External – Christ – The Word, His Scriptures
The Doctrine of the Holy Scriptures Bibliology – the study of the Bible
The Bible biblios – “books” Unique in its – Production Preservation Proclamations Product Positions
Why has God “spoken?” Grace for us Glory for Him
How has God “spoken?” Inspiration!
Inspiration is the Means of God “speaking”
Inspiration 2Tim. 3:16 Theopneustos “God” “breathed” Expiration!
How can Man “hear” God’s word? Illumination!
Illumination is the Method how man may “hear” God
What is the Bible?
God’s written revelation of Himself God’s written revelation of Himself. These Holy Scriptures are perfect as originally given by and from God (“God-breathed”), and are the eternal, inspired, inerrant, infallible, verbal and plenary very Word of God for man.
Transmission Translation Canonization
APPLICATION: Personal Corporate
Isaiah 40:5 (NASB) Then the glory of the LORD will be revealed, And all flesh will see it together; For the mouth of the LORD has spoken."
What Do You Believe? “The Ologies”
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