October 25, 2009
Alpha Talk - The Bible
Talk given at Alpha - the Bible
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Aim: to discuss briefly the following things regarding the Bible before breaking into discussion groups.
1. What is the Bible?
- Bible can be used and abused
- Bible in history & society.
- Richard Dawkins & Dan Brown
- Other claims to be the Word of God - Koran, Book of Mormon
2. How did we get the Bible? 3. How did God give us the Bible?
- Revelation
- Inspiration
- Illumination
4. How to look up the Bible?
5. Why interact with the Bible?
- The Bible helps us know God more
6. How should we interact with the Bible?
Keys to understanding the Bible ·
- Read it
- Inerrant
- No explicit contradictions
- Context matters
7. Some practical interactions with the Bible!
- Public & private reading.
- Memorizing
- Meditating or thinking about it
- Obeying it!
- Preaching & teaching.
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