Message Date: September 1, 2024
Bible
“But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear;”
I Peter 3:15 NKJV
3 Tests of Truth
1. Logical consistency
2. Empirical adequacy(the bible is not self referencing but can be empirically testified to by outside sources history and geography unlike the Quran
3. Experiential relevance(it makes a difference in how you think and feel and act…it works.. It can be experienced)
4 Questions To Be Answered
1. Origin- where do we come from
2. Meaning-what’s the meaning of life, we all need (wonder, truth, love, security)
3. Morality – how do we know right from wrong (naturalism cannot answer how an nonmoral beginning brought about by an amoral process brought about moral reasoning i.e. the emperor has no clothes)
4. Destiny – what is to become of us (what happens when we die?)
The 5 Five Disciplines The Need To Be Understood
1. God – theology
2. Reality – metaphysics
3. Knowledge – epistemology
4. Morality- ethics
5. Human kind – anthropology
•SALT PRINCIPLE•
“You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.
Matthew 5:13 NKJV
Matthew 5:13 NKJV
“The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. “Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.” What profit has a man from all his labor In which he toils under the sun? One generation passes away, and another generation comes; But the earth abides forever. The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, And hastens to the place where it arose. The wind goes toward the south, And turns around to the north; The wind whirls about continually, And comes again on its circuit. All the rivers run into the sea, Yet the sea is not full; To the place from which the rivers come, There they return again. All things are full of labor; Man cannot express it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, Nor the ear filled with hearing. That which has been is what will be, That which is done is what will be done, And there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which it may be said, “See, this is new”? It has already been in ancient times before us. There is no remembrance of former things, Nor will there be any remembrance of things that are to come By those who will come after.”
Ecclesiastes 1:1-11 NKJV
“Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, For this is man’s all. For God will bring every work into judgment, Including every secret thing, Whether good or evil.”
Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 NKJV