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Welcome! Introduce yourself + share your favorite book of the Bible
Let's get to know each other! You can use this simple format: Hey, I'm from _______________________. For fun I like to ___________________________________. My favorite book of the Bible is _________________________________________.
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Drop your favorite bible study tools/commentaries. 👇 Here are 2 of mine 👇
-Logos. Bible study software. They have a free version. Great place to get started and start building resources for study. You can purchase different upgrade packages and/or one time books, commentaries, etc. I use it weekly. -New Bible Commentary edited by Gordon J. Wenham, J Alec Moyer, D.A. Carson and R.T. France and their credentials (this is available in Logos). It's a solid overall commentary (in my opinion). I go to commentaries when I need to get someone way smarter than me's take on a passage.
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Group rules
If you're like me, you're passionate about your views on Theology. It's also easy for me to get defensive or argumentative, especially online, about said theological beliefs. In this group, we want to try our best not to let that happen! We will be guided by 3 passages: #1- 1 Corinthians 8:1 "We know that “We all possess knowledge.” But knowledge puffs up while love builds up." The purpose of this group is to discuss, learn and grow in sound theology, not to argue. Its purpose is to build up, not puff up or put others down. #2- Titus 3:9 "But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels about the law, because these are unprofitable and useless. Warn a divisive person once, and then warn them a second time. After that, have nothing to do with them." Divisive posts or people will not be tolerated after a warning. #3- 2 Timothy 2:23 "Don’t have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful. Opponents must be gently instructed, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth". There WILL be disagreement in this group at times. The mark of a Christian is to be able to disagree while remaining kind. Those rules apply to HOW we will engage. Rule #4 is about WHAT we engage about. The purpose of this group is to grow deeper in sound theology. People will have different ideas about what sound theology is. As a general rule, this group will be guided traditional orthodox Christian teaching and interpretation. That's a fancy way of saying that we will be guided by what the Protestant, Evangelical traditions have taught for thousands of years and traditional methods of interpreting Scripture. We believe the saying "If it's new, it's probably not right" from a doctrinal standpoint. We believe God does new things but He does not do new doctrines. "Doctrine" just means what the Bible collectively says about something that guides are beliefs and practices.
How do we know the Bible is really God's words?
2 Timothy 3:16-17 says: "All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work." At the time it was written, the word for Scripture is the same word used to describe the OT Scriptures. Therefore, the early apostles recognized the divine authorship of the OT. Jesus also recognized the OT as Scripture having divine authorship in several places in the NT: "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished." (Matthew 5:17-18) "Scripture cannot be broken." (John 10:35) “And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.” (Luke‬ ‭24‬:‭27‬) "Have you not read that he who created them... said.." (Matthew 19:4-5). Therefore, both the apostles and Jesus Himself recognized, quoted and taught from the OT as divine authored Scripture. What about the New Testament? "Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual." (1 Corinthians 2:12-13) “And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.” (1 Thessalonians‬ ‭2‬:‭13‬) “And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.” (‭‭2 Peter‬ ‭3‬:‭15‬-‭16‬)
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What does the Bible say about racism?
Here's a couple of key passages with observations I came up with. What else is there? Add to it if you have something you've found! Then God said, “Let us make man in our own image, after our likeness”… So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” Genesis 1:26-27 All people, no matter their race, are created in the image of God. Therefore, our inherently value as image bearers is equal. “The man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.” Genesis 2:20 The Bible affirms that Eve is the “mother of all living”. Therefore, all of the living have the same unifying ancestor. The sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth…These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the people of the whole earth were dispersed. Genesis 9:18-19 After the flood, when God was rebuilding and repopulating the world after destroying a violent, sinister humankind, all of humankind came from the same small number of survivors of the flood. “And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place.” Acts 17:26 The NT affirms that God made every nation of mankind from one man. Further affirming that everyone currently living has joint ancestors in both Adam and Eve. “For as by the one man’s disobedience (Adam) that many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous.” Romans 5:19 All who call on the name of the Lord are made righteous through one Savior: Christ Jesus. All humankind is unified in their need for a Savior and the Church is unified in their faith in Christ. “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood by shed, for God made man in his own image.” God declared murder to be a grave moral evil after the flood because man is made in his own image. He made no distinction between race. All mankind is made in his image, and all mankind should not murder. Therefore, all of mankind should be treated equally under God’s law. There should be no distinction of treatment between races.
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