7 Reasons Why You Can Trust the Bible Study Guide
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Can you trust the Bible?
Many answer this question with a staunch No! Critics increasingly attempt to poke holes in the authority of Scripture and deflate faith among believers. But ask Dr. Erwin Lutzer if you can trust the Bible, and he’ll give a resounding Yes!
In this accompanying study guide to the popular book Seven Reasons Why You Can Trust the Bible, pastor and scholar Erwin W. Lutzer helps you internalize exactly why you can trust God’s Word. Through summary questions, discussion points, and personal reflection, you’ll become more familiar with:
- The logical claims of the Bible
- The historical reliability of the Bible
- The prophetic predictions of the Bible
- The authority of Christ
- The story of creation
- The role of God’s providence in creating the Bible
- The power of God’s Word in your life
Let this guide—ideal for group and individual study—increase your confidence in God’s Word.
Intended to be used with the 7 Reasons Why You Can Trust the Bible DVD.
Erwin W. Lutzer
Dr. Erwin W. Lutzer is Pastor Emeritus of The Moody Church, where he served as the senior pastor for 36 years. He is an award-winning author and the featured speaker on three radio programs that are heard on more than 750 national and international outlets. He and his wife, Rebecca, have three grown children and eight grandchildren and live in the Chicago area.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The revised and expanded edition of the 1998 best seller 7 Reasons Why You Can Trust the Bible by Dr. Erwin Lutzer is a deep-dive into critics of the Bible as ultimate source of Truth and Inspired Word of God. Logic, history, fulfilled prophecies, Christology, science, providence and personal, changed lives, are elaborated to showcase the strength of the Bible and the weaknesses of other beliefs.Inner structure, and consistency of the Bible makes it impossible to be the human fictional construct. History and archaeological findings support the Biblical places and events. Prophecies of the Bible is to the point, traceable and proven fact, hundreds of years after these have been written down, thereby so fundamentally different from Nostradamus's 'prophecies', that are open for guessing. A large part is devoted to science, and more specific, Darwinist evolutionism versus the acknowledgement of a Creator. The canon of the Bible is another tough topic which is dealt with in all openness and respect for the books at hand. Lutzer finally rejects the idea of moral through an atheistic point of view, and the accusation that Christianity is evil in nature. A thorough apology for Christianity.
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7 Reasons Why You Can Trust the Bible Study Guide - Erwin W. Lutzer
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INTRODUCTION
DVD SESSION 1
WAITING TO HEAR GOD SPEAK
A Summary from the Book
The purpose of this book is to give reasons why I believe God has left us with a written revelation. In short, I shall present the reasonableness of the Christian conviction that the Bible is the Word of God.
This book presents seven reasons why I believe we can trust the Bible. If the Bible is based on facts, we have hope for our present crisis in religion and morality. If not, we must ruefully accept the despair of those who believe that no universal truths exist. We are then left with our own hunches, inclinations, and private interpretations of our own meaninglessness.
This evidence is open to investigation, it is out there,
and it invites discussion and argumentation. If you are already a believer in the Bible, this book will validate your belief; if you are a fair-minded skeptic it will challenge your thinking about a book that has had an immeasurable impact on the history of the world. Take it or leave it, the Bible is not a book that can be ignored.
If there is any good news, it will have to come from Christians who know what they believe and why. We are called to bring a message of hope in the midst of despair; we are asked to suffer if need be for the only message that shines a light in the darkness. Without a strong belief in the Scriptures, we simply will not be able to stand against the encroaching darkness.
As we shall see, the Bible has dual authorship, just as Christ has two natures. Christian theology maintains that Christ was fully God and fully human, the two natures united in one person. And just as Christ was fully human and yet sinless, just so the Bible is fully human and yet without error.
In this book we shall not shield ourselves from the human characteristics of the Bible, nor shall we shrink from the evidence for its divine origin. Let us boldly affirm that God who became man is the same God who inspired common men to write a very uncommon book.
Now, if God has not spoken, if we are on our own on this cosmic speck in a vast purposeless universe, then we must do the best we can with the cosmos as we find it. Let us not flinch from the frightful conclusions to which we must come. In a world where there is no existence beyond the grave and everything will ultimately be destroyed, we must agree with the atheist Bertrand Russell, that in such a world everything is meaningless.
But if God has spoken, we can probe His words, study His ways, and heed His commandments. The Bible, if it is true, is like a light shining in a musty basement, guiding us to the door that leads to eternal life.
We have a word from outside the universe, a love letter from a personal God. I invite you to join me on my journey. Let us go back to the basics, back to the most fundamental question any human