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[5 Jan 2009 | No Comment | 221 views]
How to understand criticisms of the Bible in the Classroom

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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[5 Jan 2009 | 2 Comments | 279 views]
The Bible in Your Academic Work

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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[2 Jan 2009 | No Comment | 297 views]
Understanding the Scientific Approach

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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[2 Jan 2009 | No Comment | 106 views]

University schools or faculties of social and human sciences may include  departments of sociology and anthropology, social work, economics, business management, politics, government, international relations and psychology. A growing number of schools of social sciences include geography and cross-cutting subjects such as area studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, population sciences and environmental studies.
When you study social sciences, you are concerned with understanding the ways human beings have organized themselves as groups, communities and nations in pursuit of their socioeconomic, cultural and political goals. In the social sciences, you learn how …