very semester I kick off my theology class with a series of talks about the authority and sufficiency of Scripture. I try to impress upon my students that proper theology begins with God’s revelation of himself and not with our experiences or even with philosophical arguments for God. Theology must begin with the Bible.
The Greek poet Homer was thought to be blind. He lived about seven or eight hundred years before Jesus. His writings the Iliad and the Odyssey have more ancient copies than any other piece of literature from the distant past. Except, that is, for the Bible. But no one is praying to Homer or basing their lives on the Odyssey.
Do you really think you are more clever than the Apostle Paul? More in step with God’s ways than John? More discerning than Moses?
We don’t need the Bible to know that God exists. That’s what Paul explains in the first chapter of Romans. God has made the world in such a way that we can perceive his eternal power and divine nature.
Have you ever just hit a brick wall in trying to understand something in the Bible? Me too. Here’s some things to do when you get stuck.
