Painless Apologetics

There’s a lot going on in the first ten words of the Bible, but you’ll miss it if you’re not paying attention.

A cursory examination of the proper role of Old Testament Law in the life of the Christian.

Part 1 of my answer to the question, “How do the laws in the Old Testament apply to us as believers today?”

Apparently, my students can’t get enough of this topic.

Unfortunately, there are no simple, clear-cut verses in the Bible to which we can turn that will spoon-feed us the answer—there is no “Romans 10:9, 10 for babies.” But that’s not to say that Scripture is completely silent on the matter—the Bible touches on the subject in seven different ways.

If you’re asking this question, you don’t understand the real issue.

Context is everything.

Wherein we discuss Noah’s progeny before the flood.

We’re commanded to follow Paul in the way he followed Christ, so let’s see how he “did apologetics” so that we can how how we’re supposed to do the same.

Paul didn’t reason to the Bible, he reasoned from it.

Wherein we ask the “Five W’s” and try to figure out what Paul is doing in Athens and why he said what he said.

Understanding what Peter is getting at in 1 Peter 3:15 requires examining the context of the verse. In this installment, we look at the rest of the epistle to see what light it sheds on this verse.