Do We Need to Defend the Bible?

[Van]

You need to read paragraph #2 about 40 times. You are the one who continuously offers better interpretations

I see we have 4 Calvinists claiming I have done something wrong. Go figure...

They rewrite 2 Thessalonians 2:13 and then charge me with their malfeasance. Calvinism claims it means God did not choose individuals for salvation through faith in the truth. Folks that is their rewrite.

They rewrite Luke 13:24 to read Many will NOT seek to enter by the narrow door.

They rewrite 1 Corinthians 2:14 to read the natural person is unable to understand ANY OF the things of the Spirit.

They rewrite Matthew 23:13 to read people actually entering the kingdom were NOT prevented from going in because of irresistible grace.

Folks, all these false teachers have to offer is misdirection, and diversion, and change of subject ploys.

 

[Martin Marprelate]

Always happy if Spurgeon agrees with me!

Excellent! My church will be letting the Lion out of His cage in the near future. We are proposing to call on every house in our area and give a portion of Scripture (Luke's Gospel) to each one. A recent survey of new Christians in the UK found that reading the Bible was, along with being invited to church, the primary way that they had come to the Lord.

 

[Van]

Either we tolerate false teachers and their false doctrines, or we defend God's Word. Pretty simple.

 

[Ascetic X]

Defending the Bible involves apologetics—which is providing reasoned arguments for its reliability and truth, addressing challenges like historical accuracy, contradictions, and ethical issues. Common tactics are using evidence, logic, tradition, limitations of science, discoveries of archaeology, manuscript studies, and consistent interpretation, while relying on faith and the Holy Spirit for ultimate conviction of sinners that they need a Savior.

Key methods include evidentialism (miracles, eyewitness accounts), textual analysis (manuscript comparison), and demonstrating the Bible’s best selling status and its transformative power in lives, also often pointing to its internal coherence and fulfilling prophecy as proof.

Demonstrating the Bible's life-changing power through transformed lives serves as powerful testimony.

However, Jesus proclaimed that people do not come to the Light because they love darkness. They enjoy the evil world and refuse to abandon their favorite sins. Atheism or rejecting the Bible has nothing to do with lack of evidence that God exists or that the scriptures are trustworthy.

Sinners hide behind these shields only to protect their carnal arrogance and fleshly lusts from being deconstructed and forsaken. They like to think they are too scientific or reason based to accept anything supernatural. But the psychological truth goes far deeper. To engage in rational combat against these superficial fortresses will do very little good.

John 3:19,20

And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.


2 Corinthians 4:3-4

And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.

The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

 

[John of Japan]

Excellent! My church will be letting the Lion out of His cage in the near future. We are proposing to call on every house in our area and give a portion of Scripture (Luke's Gospel) to each one. A recent survey of new Christians in the UK found that reading the Bible was, along with being invited to church, the primary way that they had come to the Lord.

Excellent! I love it.

 

[John of Japan]

Defending the Bible involves apologetics—which is providing reasoned arguments for its reliability and truth, addressing challenges like historical accuracy, contradictions, and ethical issues. Common tactics are using evidence, logic, tradition, limitations of science, discoveries of archaeology, manuscript studies, and consistent interpretation, while relying on faith and the Holy Spirit for ultimate conviction of sinners that they need a Savior.

Key methods include evidentialism (miracles, eyewitness accounts), textual analysis (manuscript comparison), and demonstrating the Bible’s best selling status and its transformative power in lives, also often pointing to its internal coherence and fulfilling prophecy as proof.

Demonstrating the Bible's life-changing power through transformed lives serves as powerful testimony.

However, Jesus proclaimed that people do not come to the Light because they love darkness. They enjoy the evil world and refuse to abandon their favorite sins. Atheism or rejecting the Bible has nothing to do with lack of evidence that God exists or that the scriptures are trustworthy.

Sinners hide behind these shields only to protect their carnal arrogance and fleshly lusts from being deconstructed and forsaken. They like to think they are too scientific or reason based to accept anything supernatural. But the psychological truth goes far deeper. To engage in rational combat against these superficial fortresses will do very little good.

John 3:19,20

And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.


2 Corinthians 4:3-4

And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.

The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

Good post.

I'm all in favor of apologetics, but we all know that is not what saves souls. It might open a sinner's mind to the Gospel, but you will agree that the power of the Gospel, Holy Spirit and Word of God are all necessary for the salvation of souls.