Book 1: Foundations
Every year, I hold up my Bible and ask the kids, "Who here believes the Bible?" Of course, they all raise their hands. Then I ask them, "Why?" Then the crickets come out.
Foundations examines evidences for the reliability of Scripture and provides reasons that we can believe the Bible. Then we open it up and start at Genesis 1:1...
Table of Contents
- Welcome to Class
- The First Day of Class
- Why Should Anyone Believe the Bible? Part 1*
- Why Should Anyone Believe the Bible? Part 2*
- Why Should Anyone Believe the Bible? Part 3*
- Why Should Anyone Believe the Bible? Part 4*
- What is a "Beginning"?
- When Was the Beginning? Part 1 The Genealogies of Genesis 5 and 11
- When Was the Beginning? Part 2 Closing Two Gaps
- When Was the Beginning? Part 3 Yôm, Yôm, Yôm
- When Was the Beginning? Part 4 What Jesus Taught
- Did God Use the Big Bang? Part 1
- Did God Use the Big Bang? Part 2
- Why All the Fuss Over the Age of the Earth?
- The Problems with Distant Starlight
- Six Reasons "Millions of Years" Can't Be True
Once we're done with the word "beginning", we move onto the fourth word of the Bible: "God."
Oh drat!
After this book went to press, I came to realize that chapters 3 – 6, “Why Should Anyone Believe the Bible?”, are poorly-named, as they do not contain biblical reasons for anyone to believe the Bible. Rather, they provide information you can use to refute reasons that skeptics give for not believing the Bible. Ultimately, the reasons that anyone comes to faith have nothing to do with evidence—it’s solely the work of the Holy Spirit opening eyes, unstopping ears, and replacing hearts of stone with hearts of flesh (1 Corinthians 2).
If you would like to learn more, please watch my presentation entitled “Why Should Anyone Believe the Bible?” In that 52-minute presentation, I explain in detail the problems I see with chapters 3 – 6, and I offer a straightforward, biblical answer to the question, “How do we know the Bible is true?”