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Prepared by Dave Smith, D.Min. Spring, TX

Prepared by Dave Smith, D.Min. Spring, TX. “Stairway to Paradise” as we wait for the happy fulfillment of our hope in the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ Titus 2:13. "Relevant Answers to Tough Bible Questions” ( TH 325 ).

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Prepared by Dave Smith, D.Min. Spring, TX

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  1. Prepared by Dave Smith, D.Min. Spring, TX

  2. “Stairway to Paradise”as we wait for the happy fulfillment of our hope in the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ Titus 2:13

  3. "Relevant Answers to Tough Bible Questions”( TH 325 ) • 2 Main Groupings : Theological and Life's Applications • Theological Topics : God, Christ, the Holy Spirit, salvation, sin, man, church, Bible interpretation, end times, etc. • Life’s Applications Topics : God’s will, marriage, suffering, etc.

  4. Delighting in His Word Ps 111:2 • Great are the works of the LORD; they are studied by all who delight in them.

  5. Delighting in His Word Ps 111:7, 10 • The works of His hands are truth and justice; all His precepts are sure. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; a good understanding have all those who do His commandments; His praise endures forever.

  6. Delighting in His Word 1 Pet 3:15 • but sanctify ( aor. imper. ) Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence;

  7. Delighting in His Word 2 Tim 2:15 • Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, handling accurately the word of truth. Acts 17:11 • Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily, to see whether these things were so.

  8. Some Principles Of Bible Interpretation • When the normal sense makes good sense, seek no other sense. • Remember that the context is most important - both near and far. • Always interpret a seemingly vague passage in light of a clear passage related to it.

  9. Some Principles Of Bible Interpretation • Interpret the passage in light of the grammatical-historical and theological context. • Israel and the Church are not the same • Take the words of prophecy in their normal literal, grammatical sense.

  10. Some Principles Of Bible Interpretation • Recognize the importance of the biblical covenants : Ex. The Abrahamic Covenant is unconditional, eternal, unilateral, literal. • Be aware of time gaps.

  11. THEOLOGICALGOD - His Immutability • Mal. 3:6; Jas. 1:17 Compare : • Jonah 3:10 Does God repent? See Gen 6:6 - God's mind - an anthropomorphism ( a human term to refer to something about the person of God, ex. emotion in reference to God's wrath Dt. 6:15; Ps 119:13 ) God's purposes & plans do not change 1 Sam. 15:11

  12. GOD - His Immutability • In the original language, the word that is translated as “repent” ( nacham - be sorry ) is the same in both verses ( Gen. 6:6; Jonah 3:10 ). The word is the Hebrew expression of “to be sorry for.” Being sorry for something does not mean that a change has occurred in a person, it simply means that there is regret on their part for something having taken place.

  13. GOD - His Immutability • Consider in Genesis 6:6, that “…it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth,” This verse even goes on to say “…it grieved him at his heart.” This verse comes right out and says that God had regret for creating man. However, obviously He did not reverse his decision; instead, through Noah, he allows man to continue to exist.

  14. Trinity - Definition Is There 3 Gods? • There is only one God, but in the unity of the Godhead there are three eternal and coequal Persons, the same in substance but distinct in subsistence. Each has a different role or function. • Jesus Cries : My God, My God ...........Mt. 27:46 • Jesus Cries : Father, into Thy hands..... Lk. 23:46

  15. Trinity - Definition a. The Father is God (John 6:27; Eph. 4:6). b. Jesus Christ is God (Heb. 1:8). c. The Spirit is God (Acts 5:3-4). d. The three Persons are associated equally and as one (Matt. 28:19, "name''; 2 Cor. 13:14).

  16. CHRIST Is Christ God • He is God in flesh ( Cf. John 1:1, 14; 8:58 with Exodus 3:14; Col. 2:9; Phil. 2:5-8; Heb. 1:8 ). Speaks of His Incarnation and His Deity

  17. Christ Hypostatic Union • Jesus has two natures in one person. He was not half God and half man. He is both Human and Divine. He was completely God and completely man. This is the correct position concerning His two natures. See Col. 2:9; Phil. 2:5-8; John 8:58 and Exodus 3:14.

  18. Is The Father Greater than The Son? • Explain : You heard that I said to you, `I go away, and I will come to you.' If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced because I go to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. Jn 14:28 • Compare 10:30. Not a distinction in nature or essence but in rank in the Trinity. Speaking of His position while on earth, in his humanity.

  19. The Impeccability of Christ • Which is correct : Christ was not able to sin OR Christ was able not to sin? ( Answer = 1st one ) • Consider : The sinless nature of the whole person of Christ

  20. The Impeccability of Christ Heb 1:3 • And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature ( hupostaseos-speaks of the unique union of Christ's deity & humanity in one person - both undiminished deity and perfect humanity united in one person forever), and upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high;

  21. The Impeccability of Christ • He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. 2 Cor 5:21 • And you know that He appeared in order to take away sins; and in Him there is no sin. 1 Jn 3:5 • who committed no sin, nor was any deceit found in His mouth; 1 Pet 2:22

  22. Christ's temptation was totally apart from sin. • Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace to help in time of need. Heb 4:14-16

  23. Christ's temptation was totally apart from sin. • V. 15 - "who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses "-- Greek, "cannot sympathize with our infirmities": our weaknesses, physical and moral (not sin, but liability to its assaults). He, though sinless, can sympathize with us sinners; His understanding more acutely perceived the forms of temptation than we who are weak can; His will repelled them as instantaneously as the fire does the drop of water cast into it.

  24. V. 15 Cont’d. • He, therefore, experimentally knew what power was needed to overcome temptations. He is capable of sympathizing, for He was at the same time tempted without sin, and yet truly tempted . • In Him alone we have an example suited to men of every character and under all circumstances. In sympathy He adapts himself to each, as if He had not merely taken on Him man's nature in general, but also the peculiar nature of that single individual.

  25. Christ's temptation was totally apart from sin. • without sin--Greek, "choris," "totally, wholly, apart & separate from sin" (Heb 7:26). If the Greek "aneu" had been used, sin would have been regarded as the object absent from Christ the subject; but “choris” here implies that Christ, the subject, is regarded as separated from sin the object. Thus, throughout His temptations in their origin, process, and result, sin had nothing in Him; He was apart and separate from it.

  26. Christ's temptation was totally apart from sin. Compare : • For since He Himself was tempted in that which He has suffered, He is able to come to the aid of those who are tempted. Heb 2:18 • Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am being tempted by God"; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone. But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust. James 1:13-14

  27. James 1 • V. 13. when . . . tempted--tried by solicitation to evil. Previously in this chapter the "temptation" meant was that of trial by afflictions. Let no one think that God lays upon him an inevitable necessity of sinning. God does not send trials on us in order to make us worse, but to make us better (Jas 1:16, 17). We need not sink under the pressure of evil (1Co 10:13).

  28. James 1 • by God--by agency proceeding from God. The Greek is not "tempted by," but, "from," implying indirect agency. • cannot be tempted with evil, --"Neither do any of our sins tempt God to entice us to worse things, nor does He tempt any of His own accord" (literally, "of Himself"; compare the antithesis, Jas 1:18,

  29. James 1 • "Of His own will He begot us" to holiness, so far is He from tempting us of His own will). Jas 1:18 • God is said in Gen. 22:1 to have "tempted Abraham"; but there the tempting meant is that of trying or proving, not that of seducing. This can be translated according to the ordinary sense of the Greek, "God is totally unversed in evil".

  30. CHRIST - THE VIRGIN BIRTH Is the virgin birth of Christ taught in the Bible? Matt 1:16 • and to Jacob was born ( gennavw (gennaw) Joseph the husband of Mary, by whom ( feminine - clearly stating Christ was born of Mary only, Not Mary & Joseph ) was born Jesus, who is called Christ.

  31. CHRIST - THE VIRGIN BIRTH • This all happened so that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet would be fulfilled: 1:23 “Look! The virgin will conceive and bear a son, and they will call him Emmanuel,” which means “God with us.” • parqevno" = virgin ( Gk.)

  32. Was Christ a created being? First-born, not first-created - Col 1:15 • prwtovtoko" ; Not prwtoktisis • Speaks of His Pre-eminence

  33. Did Christ go to Hell after His death? • but made alive in the spirit; in which also He went and made proclamation to the spirits now in prison 1 Pet 3:18-19 • V. 18 : made alive by the Spirit - refers most likely to the HS, the agent of His resurrection

  34. Did Christ go to Hell after His death? • V. 19 Two Views Regarding : #1) Probably the best view : The Pre-incarnate Christ Preached Through Noah To Those Who Are Now Spirits In Prison ( Hades ) awaiting final judgment after the millennium at the Great White Throne judgment. 1 Peter 1:11 supports this view when it speaks of the Spirit of Christ which was within the prophets. Also note that Christ's spirit was in Heaven when his body was in the grave. ( Lk. 23:43,46 )

  35. Did Christ go to Hell after His death? • #2) A POSSIBLE VIEW : Christ announced to fallen angels in Hades : 1)His victory via His pending bodily resurrection, 2) His judgment on them which he accomplished & sealed at the cross. He did this in the interim between His death & resurrection.

  36. Did Christ go to Hell after His death? • Compare : Eph. 4:7-12 • On Eph. 4:8 : Paul's paraphrase of Psalm 68:18 confirms his statement that God gives gifts to people. A military victor has the right to give gifts to those identified with him. Christ, the victor over sinful people, i.e., having captivated them by redeeming them, has the right to give those people to the church as gifts.

  37. Did Christ go to Hell after His death? • In Romans 12 and 1 Corinthians 12 Paul spoke of gifts given to people (cf. v. 7), but here he spoke of people given to the church as gifts. So in His death Jesus Christ gained the victory over sin, and He redeemed those whom He would give as gifts to the church.

  38. Did Christ go to Hell after His death? • In Eph. 4:9 "0f the earth" is an appositional phrase-Christ descended to the lower parts of his creation,i.e.,the earth.....speaking of His Incarnation. He came to earth to die for sinful mankind.

  39. Did Christ go to Hell after His death? • Also in Lk.16 Abr. bosom is not said to be in Hades but instead far from it. Remember the repentant thief at Calvary. He went to Paradise.See Lk.23:43,46. this is the same Gk. word used by Paul who was caught up into Paradise(2 Cor. 12:4).

  40. Christ emptied Himself Phil 2:7 • but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant • He limited himself to the voluntary non-use of the attributes of deity. ( Walvoord )

  41. Christ emptied Himself • Christ voluntarily set aside the use of some of his attributes of deity. His preincarnate glory was veiled while on earth. His non-moral attributes were not set aside or surrendered, just suspended. He did not stop being God or surrender any of His divine attributes at any time while on earth. His Divine attributes were "concealed under a veil of flesh." (Calvin)

  42. Christ emptied Himself • Christ Did no sin ( 1 Pet. 2:22 ); Knew no sin ( 2 Cor. 5:21 ); in Him there is No sin ( 1 Jn. 3:5 ). He was the perfect , sinless Lamb of God. Christ is no less God because He is man and no less man because He is God. Christ is undiminished deity united with true humanity in one person forever ( This is known as the hypostatic union of Christ. ).

  43. Christ crucifixion day • If Christ was in the grave for three days and three nights, how did He rise on the third day? • In the Jewish culture any part of a day was typically seen as the whole day. • To us, three days and three nights generally means 72 hours, but we must understand the Bible historically and culturally. For the Jewish mind, this could mean any part of the first day, all of the second day, and any part of the third day.

  44. Christ crucifixion day • This is obvious by comparing Esther 4:16 and 5:1. Esther mentioned fasting for three days and nights and said that she would then go into the king, which she did, but 5:1 tells us clearly that it was on the third day that she went into the king, not after three days or on the fourth. This simply illustrates the way the Jews reckoned time.

  45. Christ crucifixion day • Further, the statement “after three days” could mean to the Jewish mind “on the third day” since any part of that day was considered the third day (cf. Matt. 27:63-64). Note the statements, “after three days” and securing the tomb until the third day.

  46. THE HOLY SPIRIT On the tongues and healing gifts : • I believe the gifts of tongues and healing as used in the early church from Pentecost to about 70 A.D. as normal and common then are no longer normal and common today. Then they were used to confirm His message and His messenger. I think these gifts ceased 70 A.D. They had their purpose at that time, (I Cor. 14:20-23).

  47. THE HOLY SPIRIT - Tongues • The Greek grammar makes it clear in I Cor. 13:8-10 that tongues is one of the gifts that ceased in and of itself when its purpose was fulfilled. These gifts were abused even in the early church. We can appreciate Paul's response in I Cor. l4:12,l8,19. The Charismatic movement is divisive and unscriptural.

  48. THE HOLY SPIRIT - Tongues • It even borders on the blasphemous,i.e, they say there is still further revelation from God. To the extreme it marries itself with some of the New Age thinking I believe !

  49. The Unpardonable Sin Matt 12:31 see v. 23 unpardonable sin • "Therefore I say to you, any sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven men, but blasphemy against the Spirit shall not be forgiven. • It is a attributing some evil to God, or denying Him some good that we should attribute to Him. This case of blasphemy however is a specific one, called "the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost" in Matthew 12:31.

  50. The Unpardonable Sin • In Matthew 12:31-32 the Pharisees, having witnessed irrefutable proof that Jesus was working miracles in the power of the Holy Spirit, claimed instead that the Lord was possessed by the demon "Beelzebub" (Matthew 12:24).

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