Your God is too small!

Key verse(s)/quote(s):

“Do you know why it is so crucial for us to recover such a respectful understanding? Because a shallow view of God leads to a shallow life. Cheapen God and you cheapen life itself. Treat God superficially, and you become superficial. But hold God in profoundest respect, and it is remarkable how deep the roots of your spiritual life grow.” - Charles R. Swindoll

“Can you find out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limit of the Almighty” - Job 11:7

“Again, our eyes frequently cannot look upon the nature of the light itself  —  that is, upon the substance of the sun; but when we behold his splendor or his rays pouring in, perhaps, through windows or some small openings to admit the light, we can reflect how great is the supply and source of the light of the body. So in like manner, the works of Divine Providence and the plan of this whole world are a sort of rays, as it were, of the nature of God, in comparison with His real substance and being. As, therefore, our understanding is unable of itself to behold God Himself as He is, it knows the Father of the world from the beauty of His works and the comeliness of His creatures.” - Origen

Key takeaway(s):

1. Understanding God’s awesomeness is critical to how we live our Christian life
2. Not understanding the “bigness” of God results in idolatry
3. If we do not have a “big” view of

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Give five reasons to support your view of the divine inspiration of Scripture.

Question:

Give five reasons to support your view of the divine inspiration of Scripture.

Answer:

I am uncompromising in my stance of the Bible, as originally inspired, being the inerrant Word of God. I can base this statement on many facts (for a much more detailed study on this topic please see my post entitled “Validity of the Bible”) but in summary we can rest assured it is divinely inspired because of the following:

1.    Jesus Himself spoke of the Scriptures’: Authority  –  Matthew 22:43, Reliability  –  Matthew 26:54, Finality  –  Matthew 4:4, 7, 10, Sufficiency  –  Luke 16:31, Indestructibility  –  Matthew 5:17-18, Unity  –  Luke 24:27, 44, Clarity  –  Luke 24:27, Historicity  –  Matthew 12:40, Facticity (scientifically)  –  Matthew 19:2-5, Inerrancy  –  Matthew 22:29; John 3:12, 17:17, Infallibility  –  John 10:35
2.    Third-party verification  –  a plethora of external sources and facts outside the Bible corroborate what is found in the Bible.
3.    Historical reliability  –  The Bible’s message is a sharp contrast to the pagan fertility religions and philosophies of the ancient world as revealed through history. It isn’t shy about mentioning dates and places that have never been proven false (or if they seemingly had later evidence has uncovered these claims to be false themselves thus proving the Bible true). Additionally, the multitude of manuscripts and breadth of textual criticism has brought us much closer over time to understanding the truly amazing accuracy of the Scriptures.
4.    Fulfilled prophecy – Events demonstrate that the Biblical prophets accurately predicted events hundreds of years before they occurred.
5.    Archaeological evidence  –  Physical evidence demonstrates the historical and cultural accuracy of the Bible.
6.   Life …