You Can Trust the Bible by John MacArthur
We live in a world that, for the most part, has no absolute standard for life and behavior. We are under a system of morality by majority vote--in other words, whatever feels right sets the standard for behavior.
That philosophy, however, runs contrary to everything we know about our world. For example, in science there are absolutes. Our entire universe is built on fixed laws. We can send satellites and other spacecraft into space and accurately predict their behavior. Science--whether biology, botany, physiology, astronomy, mathematics, or engineering--is controlled by unalterable and inviolable laws.
Yet in the moral world many people want to live without laws or absolutes. They try to determine their points of reference from their own minds. However, that is impossible. When we move from the physical to the spiritual realm, fixed laws still exist. We cannot exist without laws in the moral and spiritual dimensions of life any more than we can do so in the physical dimension. Our Creator built morality into life. Just as there are physical laws, so there are spiritual laws. Let me give you an example. [...]
Read more: https://www.gty.org/library/articles/45TRUST/you-can-trust-the-bible
We live in a world that, for the most part, has no absolute standard for life and behavior. We are under a system of morality by majority vote--in other words, whatever feels right sets the standard for behavior.
That philosophy, however, runs contrary to everything we know about our world. For example, in science there are absolutes. Our entire universe is built on fixed laws. We can send satellites and other spacecraft into space and accurately predict their behavior. Science--whether biology, botany, physiology, astronomy, mathematics, or engineering--is controlled by unalterable and inviolable laws.
Yet in the moral world many people want to live without laws or absolutes. They try to determine their points of reference from their own minds. However, that is impossible. When we move from the physical to the spiritual realm, fixed laws still exist. We cannot exist without laws in the moral and spiritual dimensions of life any more than we can do so in the physical dimension. Our Creator built morality into life. Just as there are physical laws, so there are spiritual laws. Let me give you an example. [...]
Read more: https://www.gty.org/library/articles/45TRUST/you-can-trust-the-bible
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Making a Case for the Bible - John MacArthur
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The Bible is under attack.
We live in an age when the very idea of clear, objective, knowable truth is being assaulted—even from within the visible church. A growing number of pastors claim it’s impossible to know exactly what Scripture means by what it says. They say the Bible is simply not clear—rather, it’s filled with mystery and ambiguity.
Does that mean every doctrine you and I find precious is subject to new interpretation, doubt, and even wholesale rejection? Is the Bible really infallible and inerrant? Can we really know what God’s Word means?
In Making a Case for the Bible, John MacArthur shows you that God’s truth hasn’t changed. It isn’t mysterious or veiled—He revealed it with sufficient clarity. This study will help you know why you believe what you believe, and instill in you a deeper confidence in the truth of God as revealed in His Word.
Description:
The Bible is under attack.
We live in an age when the very idea of clear, objective, knowable truth is being assaulted—even from within the visible church. A growing number of pastors claim it’s impossible to know exactly what Scripture means by what it says. They say the Bible is simply not clear—rather, it’s filled with mystery and ambiguity.
Does that mean every doctrine you and I find precious is subject to new interpretation, doubt, and even wholesale rejection? Is the Bible really infallible and inerrant? Can we really know what God’s Word means?
In Making a Case for the Bible, John MacArthur shows you that God’s truth hasn’t changed. It isn’t mysterious or veiled—He revealed it with sufficient clarity. This study will help you know why you believe what you believe, and instill in you a deeper confidence in the truth of God as revealed in His Word.
This sermon series includes the following 5 messages:
- Assorted Attacks on the Bible
- Why We Believe the Bible Is True
- Why We Believe While Others Reject
- The Bible Is God's Word
- Understanding the Doctrine of Inspiration
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Scripture Is Sufficient - John MacArthur
I have been prevailed upon rather easily to take a look at Psalm 19 this morning, so open your Bible if you will to Psalm 19. It was many years ago that the Lord introduced me with some measure of depth to this particular psalm. Because I have such a firm commitment to the Word of God, I was attracted to this psalm. It really is Psalm 119 in miniature. It is a profound testimony to Scripture, to the Word of God. And very early on in my ministry, thankfully the Lord allowed me to bury myself in this psalm. And perhaps more than any other specific text of Scripture, this put in the final bolts, locking me down to my commitment to the Word of God. That has been an unwavering life commitment.
It is a strange time in which we live when it comes to Scripture. Through the history of the Jews until the Modern Era, the Jews never questioned the inerrancy of their Old Testament. But it was in the 18th century post-Reformation in the enlightenment, the ascendancy of human reason, the German skeptics and European critics began to attack the Bible.
And here we are a few centuries later trying to live through the devastating accumulated destruction of a low view of Scripture. But it’s new to the history of the church. Without being able to find a passage in the Bible in which the Bible gives a defense of itself, the church still through its entire history to the 18th century affirmed the inerrancy of Scripture. It wasn’t until that assault against the foundations of Scripture that the church began to crumble in tragic reality. That battle was fought and won by great scholars.
The final declaration came in 1978 in the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy, a great statement. But we have a generation now of people who haven’t fought that battle, and we need to raise the flag and declare there is a battle against the Word of God. And that’s why we’re having the conference. There is no brief section of Scripture that gives a clearer testimony to Scripture’s veracity than the psalm before us, Psalm 19. Let me read it to you.
Read more: https://www.gty.org/library/sermons-library/80-420
I have been prevailed upon rather easily to take a look at Psalm 19 this morning, so open your Bible if you will to Psalm 19. It was many years ago that the Lord introduced me with some measure of depth to this particular psalm. Because I have such a firm commitment to the Word of God, I was attracted to this psalm. It really is Psalm 119 in miniature. It is a profound testimony to Scripture, to the Word of God. And very early on in my ministry, thankfully the Lord allowed me to bury myself in this psalm. And perhaps more than any other specific text of Scripture, this put in the final bolts, locking me down to my commitment to the Word of God. That has been an unwavering life commitment.
It is a strange time in which we live when it comes to Scripture. Through the history of the Jews until the Modern Era, the Jews never questioned the inerrancy of their Old Testament. But it was in the 18th century post-Reformation in the enlightenment, the ascendancy of human reason, the German skeptics and European critics began to attack the Bible.
And here we are a few centuries later trying to live through the devastating accumulated destruction of a low view of Scripture. But it’s new to the history of the church. Without being able to find a passage in the Bible in which the Bible gives a defense of itself, the church still through its entire history to the 18th century affirmed the inerrancy of Scripture. It wasn’t until that assault against the foundations of Scripture that the church began to crumble in tragic reality. That battle was fought and won by great scholars.
The final declaration came in 1978 in the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy, a great statement. But we have a generation now of people who haven’t fought that battle, and we need to raise the flag and declare there is a battle against the Word of God. And that’s why we’re having the conference. There is no brief section of Scripture that gives a clearer testimony to Scripture’s veracity than the psalm before us, Psalm 19. Let me read it to you.
Read more: https://www.gty.org/library/sermons-library/80-420
See: Truth Matters Conference - The Sufficiency of Scripture - Grace To You Video Blog
See: The Bible Is Truth by John MacArthur - (True in Every Way series) Grace To You Blog
See: The Bible Is Truth by John MacArthur - (True in Every Way series) Grace To You Blog