Why Do I Believe the Bible is the Word of God?

Over the years, I have considered the question of why I believe the Bible is the Word of God from several angles. In recent days I have come to a new way of synthesizing these various angles into a unified, perspectival approach.

But before addressing the various perspectives, let me first address the meaning of the word “why” in the question. You can answer “why” questions in terms of reasons or causes. For example, if you asked the question, “Why did Martin Luther King die?” the answer could be given in at least two different ways:

Drawing from the Well, 8/8/16

For an introduction to the series, read this.

Now that we have completed a survey of the Apostles’ Creed, I have decided a change of pace would be nice, so for the next several months I will be writing on my church’s statement of faith. This statement is reliant on and adapted from the New Hampshire Confession of 1833, which has been modified into recent forms of the Baptist Faith and Message (1925, 1963, 1998, and 2000). Since it is a statement of faith and not a Creed, it is not written to be memorized. Therefore, our focus won’t be on memorization but simply exposition of what the statement of faith teaches.

Where Does the Sexual Revolution Go from Here?

The sexual revolution that began in the 1960’s reached a watershed moment in the summer of 2015 when the Supreme Court issued a narrow 5-4 decision imposing a redefinition of marriage to include same-sex couples on all fifty states. Since that time, the revolution has turned its attention to the transgender movement, where main front of the culture war is now being fought. With every step in this revolution, left-leaning Christians have shown themselves willing to jump on board with the cultural momentum even while they have gone in search of new, creative ways to read and apply Scripture in order to justify it. Where will this revolution go from here, and how far will leftist Christians go with it?