{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Hope Community Church","title":"Did God Really Say...?","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2132,"description":"Deconstruction\nWeek 2 - Did God Really Say…?\n\nThe Bible is one of the first things people begin to doubt in the process of deconstruction. Did God really say…? Are certain parts of the Bible more true than others? Is it a God-breathed, God-inspired story or humanity’s best attempt at explaining God? Some even ask what Jesus thought or said about the Bible. In week 2, Chase Gardner helps tackle these questions and more.\n—\nMessage Notes\n\nWhat does Jesus say about the Bible? Can we believe the Bible and base our lives on it?  \n\nOrthodox View: The authors received more and more truths over time.\n\nProgressive View: What the authors wrote got truer and truer over time.\n\nWhat does Jesus say about the Bible?\nLuke 4:3-4 (NLT)\nLuke 4:5-8 (NLT)\nLuke 4:9-12 (NLT)\nJesus used Scripture to counter Satan.\nJesus thought the words of the Old Testament were vital, authoritative and coherent.\n\nA lot of what the Bible says is descriptive not prescriptive. (It describes how people lived, not necessarily saying we need to live that way ourselves.)\n\nOften, people use the Bible out of context to prove their points or justify their actions.\nMatthew 24:17 (KJV)\n\n“I must recognize that we essentially have human rights in our world because of Christianity. It is quite clear in this Christian reevaluation of the human person that the philosophy of human rights, of which we subscribe to today, would have never established itself.” - Luke Ferry (atheist author)\n\nIf you want to root yourself in the teachings and traditions of Jesus, you should have a high view of the Bible as well.\n\nJesus points out that the Bible is the inspired Word of God.\nMatthew 22:41-46 (NLT)\n\nThe writers of the Bible are like the instruments of revelation.\n2 Peter 1:20-21 (NLT)\n2 Timothy 3:16a (NLT)\n\nJesus did not come to end the laws of the Old Testament. He came to fulfill them.\nMatthew 5:17-19 (NLT)\nJesus is saying that the entire Bible is purposeful. \n\nJesus taught the Bible we have today is canon, actual books...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/uIknl95K8nsizSpDgj3alnQLSEl2Cb8_jelQ0immGpA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8yZDA4/ODBiZWNiMzBmOWEz/Mzc0Y2RjMWVlMDBj/NGI2NS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}