Inspiration and Inerrancy of Scripture

How do we resolve texts we can’t reconcile to any sort of order or justice? When the bad guys win and evil violence seems to have the last word? Dr. Mark Chavalas joins us again to discuss some of the more difficult passages in the book of Judges. 

Dr. Michael Easley interviews Dr. Tom Constable about reading and understanding God’s word.

We don’t live in the culture that originally received the Word of God. If we are to grasp this text, we must also understand some of the cultural connotations within. To help us, historian and professor Dr. Mark Chavalas joins us today.

Howard Hendricks (many of you know him as the Prof) challenged me to take on a new and challenging subject every year, and that’s sort of where this new series comes from. Over the years, verse-by-verse has been my love and I think it’s lacking in churches today, but after doing this for 40 years, one thing that’s struck me is that people don’t seem to know the big picture anymore. How do we re-engage with an overview of what the Bible is about? We study it as a whole. Join us for The Big Book–Cover to Cover: a teaching series on the entire Bible, book by book, beginning today in Genesis:

The world has a lot of opinions about Christianity. And truth be known, we deserve some of the maligning some of the time. But sometimes they make my blood boil! Many opinions are formed when parts of scripture are taken out of context and used to make wide-reaching statements about God and Christianity as whole. In this episode Michael encourages us to study the scriptures from a wider perspective, in context, in order to understand Why We Believe What We Believe. Join us as we continue our series with the second part of Michael’s teaching on the Doctrine of Inspiration.

Why we believe what we believe about Inspiration is not important to our faith, it is crucial, because if indeed this is God’s message to man, rooted from God to us in these forms we hold today, it is the message of hope, life, truth, and salvation to which we ascribe and which we hope to share with others. Is the Bible the Word of God, or not? Listen as Michael teaches part one of two on the Doctrine of Inspiration.

How do we live in today’s cultural climate with a Biblical worldview? Does the Bible apply to our lives? How are we allowing the world to form our theology?

In this episode, Michael addresses questions about Jesus as both man and God on earth, whether we can walk out of the hand of God after we’re secure in our salvation, whether Jesus’ blood atones for the sins of everyone or just for a select group, what Michael thinks about when people say they ‘hear from God,’ and Jephthah’s rash vow to sacrifice whatever walked out his door to greet him when he returned from battle.

In his second letter, Peter warns believers not to let false teaching affect them. In fact, it can be considered a growing Christian’s role to Be On Guard.

The Detailed Description and Destruction of False Teachers. Christianity requires constant re-education. We’re not teaching something new; rather we are re-educating, re-affirming, reminding, and teaching others who have yet to learn.