The Bible teaching ministry of John Brand
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John 17:12-13 “While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.” I have pointed out previously that there are actually just two very specific requests…
HT: Tim Challies How can we know that the Bible that God breathed out and that men recorded has been accurately preserved for us? How can we be sure that God’s Word has remained God’s Word from the time it was first written to this present day? THE PRESERVATION OF THE OLD TESTAMENT While recent scholarship…
For the first time in over three years, Pastor John is going to present his The Bible in a Day seminar on Saturday 11th March. Several hundred people have attended previous seminars which have been held at Edinburgh Bible College and several churches around the UK and also in Warsaw, Poland. 6,000 years in 66 books in…
So far in this short series of posts we have looked at the TEXTUAL, HERMENEUTICAL and THEOLOGICAL reasons why we need to take the opening chapters of Genesis literally. Today we look at some HISTORICAL reasons. It may be the least important of the four arguments, but it is certainly not unimportant. While it may well be…
So far in this short series of posts we have looked at the TEXTUAL and HERMENEUTICAL reasons why we need to take the opening chapters of Genesis literally. Now we need to, very briefly, look at the THEOLOGICAL reasons. This is a massive subject and worthy of a much more exhaustive treatment, but this is…
In the first post in this series we considered the TEXTUAL reason by we need to take a literal view of the opening chapters of Genesis. Now we look at the hermeneutical reasons for doing so. 2. HERMENEUTICAL It is amazing how experienced and gifted Christian teachers and preachers inconsistently apply basic rules of interpretation…