A: Dan Brown is an author with an agenda. He wants to revive ancient paganism and restore goddess worship to the world’s patriarchal religions. His bestselling novel, The Da Vinci Code, is a blatant attempt to overturn the historic record of God’s loving redemption with a tale of sex, intrigue, and conspiracy. To him, Christianity is nothing [...]
Read More»A: The four English translations used most widely by evangelical Christians are the King James Version (KJV), The New King James Version (NKJV), the New International Version (NIV), and the New American Standard Bible (NASB). The KJV is the oldest of the four and continues to be the favorite of many. It is known as [...]
Read More»A: John’s explanation of 2 Timothy 3:16-17 in his series The Transforming Power of Scripture is really helping me understand the importance of knowing God’s Word. Are there other passages that spotlight directly on Scripture? There certainly are—Psalms 19 and 119 come immediately to mind. John has preached a sermon on Psalm 19 (80-19), which we trust [...]
Read More»A: Properly understood, the doctrine of inerrancy—the teaching that the Bible contains no errors—applies only to the original copies of the biblical documents. The original writings came directly from God through human authors. The Old Testament was originally written in Hebrew and Aramaic (cf. Genesis 31:46; Ezra 4:8-6:18; 7:12-26; Jeremiah 10:11; Daniel 2:4-7:28), and the [...]
Read More»A: “All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work” (2 Tim. 3:16–17). God’s Word is inspired. Second Timothy 3:16 speaks of the inspiration of Scripture. “Inspired” is the translation of a Greek [...]
Read More»A: Here are five helpful steps to ensure you are effectively studying God’s Word. Step 1 — Reading Begin by developing a plan on how you will approach reading through the Bible. Unlike most books, you will probably not read it straight through from cover to cover. There are many good Bible reading plans available. [...]
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