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WHOSE AUTHORITY?
The epistemic authority of the Bible is contested by most of your lecturers. Depending on your course of study, you are likely to encounter casual critics, higher critics, intellectual hypocrites and others who approach the Bible from a cultural perspective.
CASUAL CRITICS
Direct casual attacks on the Bible usually come from prejudiced scholars, atheists, humanists and others who resent various aspects of your Christian faith. Generally, this group of critics are militant in their opposition to the Lord Jesus Christ. They are open enemies of the gospel. Casual critics of the …
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THE TRUTH
The Bible is the truth. The truth about the Bible is far from the prejudices and misconceptions of many lecturers and intellectuals. We have in the Bible, a miracle of God’s self-disclosure. It is the only true written communication from God to humanity. In the Bible, the supernatural God speaks to human beings in a language we can understand.
The Bible is divinely inspired. Its messages include extraordinary and exclusive truth claims. It is intricately tied to history with hundreds of prophecies that have been fulfilled to the letter. …
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Science is not an all-powerful authority which holds the answer to all questions about life. In a general sense, the term, science, refers to organized knowledge. It is also commonly used in a methodological sense to refer to a systemized inquiry into the nature of things. In the intellectual world, it is widely understood as an activity that uses clearly specified rules to produce knowledge in all disciplines. This general and elementary discussion of the scientific approach highlights several issues from a Christian perspective.
A Product of Worldviews
The worldview that scholars …
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A Christian approach to mathematics is distinguished from others by our primary assumptions about the nature of reality. We investigate the design, order, reliability and relationships that are established by God for His purposes.In your study of mathematics as a Christian, pay attention to concepts such as infinity, unknown quantities and insolvable equations. Also consider abstractions, negatives and relationships that are easy to conceptualize but hard to apply practically in our present reality. Reflect on these concepts in the context of the so-called boundedness of what is considered scientific by …
