faith & human reasoning: can they work together?
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“Reasoned with Them” “Then Paul, as his custom was, went in to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures.” –(Acts 17:2) Acts 17:3TRANSCRIPT
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Faith & Human Reasoning:
Can They Work Together?
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REASON• “The ability to think,
form judgments, and draw conclusions.”
•Bible faith is a faith based on reasoning, based on what God has revealed.
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“Reasoned with Them”
•“Then Paul, as his custom was, went in to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures.” – (Acts 17:2)
•Acts 17:3
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“Great Faith”Luke 7:1-10
• Centurion over men• Loved the Jewish
nation• Heard about Jesus• Felt unworthy• Reasoned based on
his own circumstances
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UnbeliefMark 6:1-6
• Heard His teaching and were “astonished.”
• Jesus marveled at their “unbelief.”
• He was rejected in His own country!
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“Slow to Believe”
Luke 24:13-35• Two men on the road
to Emmaus.• They talked about
recent events.• He “opened the
scriptures” for them.
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God Wants Us To:
•Think— Matthew 22:42
• Judge— John 7:24
•Conclude— 1 Kings 18:21
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Reasoning—No Faith
•There is no faith when human reasoning becomes the standard in place of the revelation of God.
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Hell•“My disbelief in eternal torture is stronger than my belief in God.” (Nearer My God, pg.71—William Buckley Jr.)
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Hell—The Truth
• Matthew 25:46• Mark 9:47,48• Revelation 14:10,11• 2 Thessalonians 1:7-
9• Jesus taught more
about Hell than any other person!
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Jonah and the Great Fish
•“I just can’t accept the story of Jonah and the great fish swallowing Jonah as historical fact.”– Jonah 1,2– Matthew 12:38-41
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Church vs. Individual
•“I’m convinced that whatever the individual Christian can do—the church can also do.”– 1 Timothy 5:16
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Water Baptism•“I just can’t
believe the concept that one must be baptized in water in order to be saved.”– Mark 16:16– 1 Peter 3:21– Acts 2:41-47
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Baptized
Into Christ—Galatians 3:27
Into one body— 1 Corinthians
12:13
Wash away sins— Acts 22:16
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Be a Christian•Believe—
John 8:24•Confess—
Romans 10:9,10•Repent—
Acts 17:30,31•Be baptized—
Acts 2:38