Today's passage of Scripture is Deuteronomy 3:24 which reads: "O Lord God, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might?"

Today's words from a theologian are from Robert McAfee Brown. He said: "The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture."

Our first topic for today is titled "How Do We Know the Bible Is the Word of God? (Part 1)" from the book, “Understanding Theology in 15 Minutes a Day" by Dr. Daryl Aaron.

Dr. Daryl Aaron writes:

We have seen that God’s specific or special revelation to us is the Bible. This is the primary (though not exclusive) source for what we know about God and the various subjects of theology. So it is absolutely vital that we understand what the Bible claims about itself, and the implications that follow.

Christians refer to the Bible as the Word of God, but why? One of the main reasons we know this is true is that it makes this claim for itself. Is the assertion invalid because Scripture makes it? Not necessarily. And there is a lot of supporting evidence.

There is extra-biblical (“outside the Bibleâ€) evidence that the Bible is God’s Word. For example, prophecies recorded in Scripture happened in history. The Messiah’s birth was foretold to be in Bethlehem; the birth of Jesus fulfilled that prophecy. Isaiah mentioned the name of a Persian king, Cyrus, more than 150 years before he reigned. Daniel 11 is an amazingly detailed prophecy of a series of Greek kings who reigned between the Old and New Testament periods.

Who knows the future well enough to reveal it before it happens? Only God.

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Our second topic for today is titled "The Methodology of Old Testament Theology, Part 3" from "The Moody Handbook of Theology" by Dr. Paul Enns.

First, today, we will address New Biblical Theology Method

Brevard Childs has called for a "new biblical theology" that moves beyond the historical-critical method (which exalted human reason as the ultimate authority and treated the Bible like any other book) that underlies most Old Testament theologies. He suggests the abandonment of the historical-critical method (rejecting the history of religions school) and proposes as his thesis the canon of the New Testament church. He suggests dealing with the biblical text in its final form as the normal method of doing Old Testament theology.

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