3 Commonly Misunderstood Bible Questions Answered | Part 2
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The Bible is God’s word--His mind in print.
The truth found within its pages is simple and beautiful. But that doesn’t mean some passages aren’t hard to understand.
On today’s program we’re going to look at three common Bible questions we receive at Tomorrow’s World, and we’re going to teach you how to answer those questions yourself, straight out of God’s word.
So, join us for a new installment of “Your Questions, the Bible’s Answers!”
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You’ll soon find we’re not like most religious programs you see on television or the Internet.
And, as our regular viewers know well, we don’t ask you to simply take our word for the things we say.
We ask you to believe your Bible, and to measure everything we tell you against the truth of God’s eternal word.
As King David says of God in Psalm 119 and verse 160, “The entirety of Your word is truth, And every one of Your righteous judgments endures forever.”
But that doesn’t mean that we can’t misunderstand it from time to time. As we’ll see, even the Bible testifies of ITSELF that sometimes its meaning is misunderstood or, frankly, twisted by others.
In such cases, the student of the Bible needs to strive to rise to the challenge!
In 2 Timothy 2:15, the Apostle Paul encouraged his young protégé to do so, telling him, “Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”
THAT’S what we want to do. To RIGHTLY divide the word of truth.
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But today, we’re going to focus on three specific Bible questions.
We enjoyed doing our first “question and answer” program so much, we couldn’t help but do another one!
And as we answer the questions, we’ll illustrate the principles you can use in the future to answer Bible questions for yourself.
Our three questions today are…
Was Jesus created?
Did Paul teach that all creatures are good for food?
(And) Is the Kingdom of God in your heart?
Let’s jump right in!
Our first question is a common misunderstanding. Some teach that Jesus is divine, but is not actually God, just as His Father is God.
They say Jesus is a CREATED being, just like the angels.
And one verse that is commonly pointed to for such claims is Revelation 3 and verse 14.
There, in vision, the Apostle John sees the glorified Christ, who reveals messages to the Church of God, intended to span the centuries that would follow.
John writes in Revelation 3:14,
“And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write, ‘These things says the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God…’”
Those words, “the Beginning of the creation of God,” seem to suggest to some that Jesus--even in His divine existence before His life on earth--was CREATED by God.
So, “Was Jesus created?”
One of the principles we’ll use on today’s program to help us answer these questions is a vital tool for biblical understanding.
When trying to find out what the Bible really says about something--in this case, the nature of Christ--it is important to “Examine other scriptures on the same topic.”
After all, the Bible--every word of it--is inspired by the same God, through the same Spirit. It does not contradict itself.
The Son of God, Himself, Jesus Christ, tells us this in John chapter 10 and verse 35, where He says “the Scripture cannot be broken.”
When we want to understand the fullness of God’s mind on a subject, we want to rightly divide His word and look at the WHOLE of that word and what it has to say about that subject.
In this case, what does the Bible have to say in other places about Jesus Christ’s existence with God BEFORE His incarnation in the flesh?
Was He created by God?
Or did He exist eternally with God, with NO beginning?
There are many places in Scripture where we could turn, but since Revelation is Jesus’ revelation to His servant John, let’s turn to John’s own gospel to see how he understood Jesus' pre-incarnate nature. Look at the very beginning of the book of John, starting with the very first verse:
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.
All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.”
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