Last time we looked at a common objection to the truth that God has made His will clear to us in the Bible; the religious objection. We also briefly touched on a second objection, what we could term the ‘mystical objection’. Today I want us to delve into this a little deeper as one hears it a lot in some circles. Usually it is presented to us in the following manner- God is so great and beyond our comprehension that we simply can’t say anything very definite about him (see my

During our last post we underlined the fact that the Bible is a clear message from God. It is not an abstract, theological, philosophical gobbledy gook tome worthy of the European Union. No, the main message of the Bible is simple and straight forward. This does not mean that there are not some difficult parts of Scripture. As we saw last time sections of the Bible are harder to read than others. However, this truth does mean that the main scriptural doctrines, ‘the big pictu

So far we have spend a good bit of time looking at how the Bible presents itself as God’s sufficient revelation of all that we need to know for life in this world and for our entrance into the next. However, this does raise a question; is the Bible clear in its teaching?After all haven’t some of the stupidest ideas from some of the craziest people been introduced as coming from the Bible? Probably many of us have been engaged by Jehovah’s Witnesses on the doorstep who were ov

Today I want to kick off with a passage from the book of Acts in the New Testament; “Then the brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea. When they arrived, they went into the synagogue of the Jews.11 These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so. 12 Therefore many of them believed, and also not a few of the Greeks, promi