1. Mike Mazzalongo Why Do People Reject the Bible?

2. Reasons for Rejection 1.It depends on your interpretation

3. 4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all. - Ephesians 4:4-6

4. Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints. - Jude 3

5. The Christian’s Job: 1.To understand what that correct teaching is.

6. The Christian’s Job: 1.To understand what that correct teaching is. 2.To preserve that teaching.

7. The Christian’s Job: 1.To understand what that correct teaching is. 2.To preserve that teaching. 3.To teach it accurately to others.

8. The Christian’s Job: 1.To understand what that correct teaching is. 2.To preserve that teaching. 3.To teach it accurately to others. 4.To encourage the next generation to do the same.

9. Reasons for Rejection 1.It depends on your interpretation 2.It's not understandable

10. Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth. - II Timothy 2:15

11. and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. - II Timothy 3:15

12. Reasons for Rejection 1.It depends on your interpretation 2.It's not understandable 3.The Bible was written by men

13. 19 This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. - John 3:19-20

14. 20 But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation, 21 for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God. - II Peter 1:20-21

15. He who rejects Me and does not receive my sayings has one who judges him; the word I spoke will judge him at the last day. - John 12:48