Frequently Asked Questions Photo by univrsltransl8r - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License https://www.flickr.com/photos/15382514@N04 Created with Haiku Deck Question #1 Why Do You Believe the Bible? Question #1 Why Do You Believe the Bible? 1. The Gospels were recorded too soon for legends to have developed. Question #1 Why Do You Believe the Bible? 1. The Gospels were recorded too soon for legends to have developed. 2. The content of scripture is too unique to be a human construction. Question #1 Why Do You Believe the Bible? “Thousands of documents of every sort have been unearthed which can be compared with biblical literature and which help us greatly in understanding it. Yet amid the glorious ruins of Egypt, Syria, and Mesopotamia one still must stand amazed at the literary, poetic, and religious genius of Israel. The other nations had nothing which can be placed on the same level as with the Bible.” - George Ernest Wright 1. The Gospels were recorded too soon for legends to have developed. 2. The content of scripture is too unique to be a human construction. Question #1 Why Do You Believe the Bible? 1. The Gospels were recorded too soon for legends to have developed. 2. The content of scripture is too unique to be a human construction. 3. There is no other ancient Question #1 work with the documentary Why Do You Believe support of the Bible. the Bible? “One thing we cannot deny the Christians is the documentation that is available across the centuries; nothing in ancient literature matches it.” - Richard Ostling 1. The Gospels were recorded too soon for legends to have developed. 2. The content of scripture is too unique to be a human construction. 3. There is no other ancient Question #1 work with the documentary Why Do You Believe support of the Bible. the Bible? Question #2 How Should We Read the Bible? Photo by Andrey Belenko - Creative Commons Attribution License https://www.flickr.com/photos/38934395@N07 Created with Haiku Deck 1. The Bible is a collection of books. Question #2 How Should We Read the Bible? 1. The Bible is a collection of books. 2. The Bible is inspired. Question #2 How Should We Read the Bible? 1. The Bible is a collection of books. 2. The Bible is inspired. 3. The Bible changes lives. Question #2 How Should We Read the Bible? Question #3 How Do We Understand the Covenants? 24 So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith. 25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian, 26 for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. – Galatians 3:24-26 8 After saying above, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you have not desired, nor have you taken pleasure in them” (which are offered according to the Law), 9 then He said, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He takes away the first in order to establish the second. 10 By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. – Hebrews 10:8-10 Question #4 What Does It Mean to Live Under the New Covenant?