Knowing and Growing in the Basics of the Bible

On today’s Equipping You in Grace show, Dave Jenkins and Matt Perman discuss how a proper view of the Bible affects how we approach reading and studying the Bible and respond to challenges and attacks to the Bible.

What you’ll hear in this episode

• The importance of foundational issues for a basis for a Christian worldview.
• The reliability of Scripture.
• The natural man and the spiritual man and the illumination of the Holy Spirit.
• The importance of the Old Testament to the Christian life.
• The character of God and the Scriptures.
• Responding to challenges to the first few chapters of Genesis.
• Responding to challenges to the historicity of Adam.
• The meaning of inerrancy, and infallibility.
• The dual authorship of Scripture.
• Scripture, church history, and responding to challenges to Scripture.
• The importance of getting doctrine from the Bible to contend and defend the faith once and for all delivered to the saints.
• How our convictions about the Bible affect how we interpret the Bible.
• The grammatical-historical method of biblical interpretation and expository preaching.
• The importance of Bible reading as a dutiful delight.

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