God Is Trustworthy

Numbers 23:16-20

God is trustworthy

! God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill? (Num. 23:19 NIV)

What we believe matters

! The world is just here. It was not created with a purpose. No creator.

! Truth is not absolute. The Bible is just a human document.

! Morality and religion are nothing but products of human invention.

Neoorthodoxy – new, revised

! Makes man the measure of scripture and its authority. “It doesn’t mean that to me.”

! “Sometimes I think Paul is right and sometimes I think he is wrong.”

! We don’t even need the Bible, just believe what we want.

Leap of faith

! “Hard evidence” can only take us so far and then we must make a “leap of faith” which takes us beyond the evidence we are given.

Biblical faith

! God does not ask us to commit to something unproved and unprovable.

! 1Cor. 15:1-9

Bible is God’s word

! If it is the case that the Bible contains predictive prophecies which were clearly made in advance of their unquestioned fulfillment, is characterized by humanly impossible unity, treats matters of science in a way which transcends human invention in the days when its various parts were written,

Bible is God’s word

! has a view of reality otherwise unknown in human thought, has been confirmed by all accepted means of historical research (e.g. archaeology), and is free from demonstrable error (as well as possessing other features which are beyond mere human wisdom or invention) then the Bible is the Word of God.