Man’s Word Or God’s Word?
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God’s Word Or Man’s Word
Eastern Mysticism
Moralistic and mythological
Secular / Atheistic
Counterfeits of Christianity
66 books revealed the Word omnipresent, omnipotent,
The personal revelation of the God who reveals truth and who created everything
the Bible
Jesus is the creator God John 1
Jesus is the intimate Creator God
Jesus became man but has always existed
39 books in the Old Testament - 22 by count in Judaism
OT
1. Law
2. Prophets
3. Psalms (writings) Poetry
Luk 24:44 And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
Apocrypha - useful but not scripture
NT - The Gospel
The good news of Jesus death, burial, and resurrection is the Gospel
New Testament
1. History
Matthew, Mark. Luke, John, Acts
2. Epistles an letters
Romans - Revelation
Ephesians 2:19-20
Eph 2:19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
Eph 2:20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
Eph 2:21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
Jesus is the cornerstone of the Local Church
The prophets and apostles laid the foundation of the church
1Co 3:10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.
1Co 3:11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
1. Oriental Church Split - ad 450
2. East-West Split (Great Schism) - ad 1000
3. Reformation AD 1500
Many think they can just pick a so-called holy book or religion and just be fine - live their life and everything will work out in the end
Eastern Mysticism
Hinduism / Vedism
Hare Krishna
Taoism
Sihkism
Hubbardism
Jainism
New Age
These books are suggestions and personal thoughts about religion
Arbitrary - it’s meaningless
Ancient sages
Hinduism - 1 God that manifests in other Gods
Braman and Sarawati is a corrupted view of Abraham and Sarah
River “Ghaggar/Hakra - Abraham, Sarah, Haggar
Braman’s son Daksha looks like Jokshan
Genesis 25:6
Ancestor Worship
Man’s Ideas and suggestions
Moralistic and Mythological
Baal Worship
Greek
Roman
Egyptian
Norse
Shinto
Wicca
Witchcraft
Druidism
Confucianism
Buddism
Are merely suggestions about ancestors, alleged god(s), moral, spiritual, and political issues from people. They were not inspired by their gods. They do not claim to be the revealed word of their god.
Atheism / Secularism
Just man’s opinions. They claim there is no God which makes their claim not athoratative and arbitrary.
Counterfeits of Christianity
Islam
Mormonism
Jehovahs Witnesses
They generally agree the Bible is true
Koran
Muhammad agreed the Bible was true
Sura 4:136
They presuppose the availability of the Word of God
Book of Mormon
Watchtower
Studies in the Scriptures
Mormons add to and take away from the Bible - they changed it
Jehovahs witnesses - Made changes - NWT
Judaism - They say they believe the Bible
The Talmud is commentary on the OT - Cometary upon Commentary
“In light of our New Inspiration”
They
Yes the Bible is true but…
Previous Revelation should Judge Latter Revelation
The OT points to the NT
Act 18:28 For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publickly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ.
1. Arbitrariness
2. Inconsistency
3. Preconditions - Where they barrow from the Bible
Inconsistencies
The Koran
Sura 6:34
Because the Qur’an didn’t match with the Bible’s text, the Qur’an then said that the Bible had been changed. Sura 3:70, 78
They claim the Bible has been changed and polluted.
The Father, the mother, and the Son
The Father, The Son, The Holy Spirit
Miriam and Mary are confused
In the Qur’an
Jesus is not God
Jesus was not crucified
Salvation is not guaranteed
They say Islam is the newest and best
The infinite Son to our
That’s what makes salvation possible
The Doctrine of Tawid - Allah is unknowable - impersonal and unknowable
How can someone know about an impersonal and unknowable God
The Good news of the Gospel teaches us we can love those who believe differently
They need to be saved
The book of Morman
Teaches grace and works (2 Nephi 25:23)
They want a planet of their own
Salvation is by grace through faith (Ephesians 2:8-9)
We can’t earn what is given by faith
We are expected to be perfect to enter heaven
Isa 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
The only work that allows into heaven in
Morman teach Jesus became a god
Teaches you can become a God
The watchtower - Jehovah’s witness
Jesus is the created angel, Michael
Jesus is Creator God
Jn 1:1-3
Joh 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Joh 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God.
Joh 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Hebrews 1:1-9
Col 1:15-19
Hebrews 1:4-8
The word was a god - New World Translation
Contradiction
Daniel 12:2
John 3;36
Matthew 25:41
Revelation 14:9-11
Start with the Bible and test the Other Religions
The Later prophets are better?
There is no need to more prophets now
400 B.C. the Old Testament
Joel, Acts 2
Jude 1:3
We have all we need in the Word, the completed cannon of Scripture
Prophecy will cease and no prophets will exist when the Temple Is destroyed.
Dan 9:24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
Dan 9:25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
Dan 9:26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Dan 9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Psa 74:3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
Psa 74:4 Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.
Psa 74:5 A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
Psa 74:6 But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
Psa 74:7 They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
Psa 74:8 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
Psa 74:9 We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.