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Jan 14, 2024 · Whether through cosmically fine-tuned laws like gravity, physics and thermodynamics, or miraculously overriding these very laws, God’s handiwork paints a stunning portrait of His unlimited power and supreme authority over all creation. Submitting to God’s Authority Obedience to God’s Commands
- How Do We Determine Scripture's Authority?
- Is The Bible Inerrant?
- Why Do So Many People Push Back Against The Inerrancy of Scripture?
- Does The Bible Contain Contradictions?
- Why Is The Authority of Scripture So Important to The Christian Faith?
To ascribe supreme authority to Scripture naturally begs the question of how we determine that it possesses this declared authority. Where is the evidence? There are at least seven types of evidence we can examine to determine Scripture’s authority. 1. Internal Evidence: Scripture’s Self-Attestation The first place we look to determine Scripture’s ...
God is perfect in His character, nature, and ways. He can’t make a mistake or misspeak. Therefore, His Word as He gave it to His chosen authors in the original language is inerrant—it’s free of error in everything it teaches. The Bible doesn’t just contain inerrant words from God. It isGod’s inerrant Word. We, humans, are fallible, but God’s power ...
Since God created the world, people have pushed back against His words by asking, “Did God really say?” When Satan tempted Adam and Eve to rebel against God’s authority, he posed this same question to Eve. “And he [Satan disguised as a serpent] said to the woman [Eve], ‘Has God really said, “You shall not eat from any tree of the garden”?’” (Genesi...
“We all make mistakes.” Who hasn’t uttered this statement? More than 40 men from three different continents over a span of 1500+ years wrote God’s words into 66 books, which we now call the Bible or Scripture. Surely such a book contradicts itself somewhere. This reasoning, however, denies God’s ability to guide the writers and preserve His Word. T...
Before Christ went to the cross, He prayed for His disciples and all believers, saying, “Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth” (John 17:17NASB). Christ was saying, “Your word [Scripture] is truth [divine, authoritative, absolute, and inerrant.]” If it were not divine, authoritative, and inerrant, it couldn’t be truth. If we can’t trust Sc...
#1. Divine Authority. God’s authority is supreme and unquestionable. In Genesis 1:1, it says, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” This act of creation demonstrates His authority over all things. God’s authority is not limited by time or space, as He is the ultimate Creator and sustainer of the universe. #2.
- Romans 13:1 ESV / 167 helpful votes. Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.
- Matthew 28:18 ESV / 118 helpful votes. And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
- Luke 10:19 ESV / 90 helpful votes. Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you.
- Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 86 helpful votes. Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account.
Apr 11, 2013 · The chapter emphasizes (Dan. 4:17, 25) “that the Most High is ruler over the realm of mankind, and bestows it on whom He wishes.” All authority is delegated from God and those in authority are accountable to God. This means that no person, no matter what office he holds, is above rebuke if he strays from the ultimate authority of God’s Word.
- All authority on earth comes from the Sovereign of the universe. Note Romans 13:1-2: “Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorit...
- We examined this when we studied Titus 1:5, so I will only mention it in passing here. Whenever the New Testament refers to the elders of a particu...
- When authority is abused, it hurts those under authority. In such cases, God ultimately will judge the abuser. But when it is exercised properly, a...
- Feminists who bristle at the thought of a wife submitting to her husband contend that to submit implies inferiority. But note 1 Corinthians 11:3: “...
- We often see authority as a perk, but not as a serious responsibility. When my brother was a boy, he started a club with his friends. He announced...
- In the world and, sadly, often in the church, these get reversed. A man seeks the position of authority, but he lacks the character to lead. Once h...
- Sometimes (hopefully, rarely) the elders must take correction to the level of public church discipline (I will deal with this further when we come...
May 30, 2024 · We disobey, first of all, the law of God. The root problem in all of creation is disobedience to law, defiance of authority. And the ultimate authority of the universe is God Himself. But God delegates authority as He reigns and rules over His creation. God raises up human governments. It is God who instituted government in the first place (Rom ...
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God’s protection of society 1. The enemy of liberty is tyranny, or the use of power to exercise someone else’s authority, contrary to God’s authority framework 2. The best protection against tyranny is for each person to teach, and observe, God’s plan for society and its basic institutions. THE INDIVIDUAL AS AN INSTITUTION. Created by God
