{"id":45568,"date":"2022-10-01T01:54:48","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/would-you-put-your-life-between-the-covers-of-a-book-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T01:54:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T06:54:48","slug":"would-you-put-your-life-between-the-covers-of-a-book-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/would-you-put-your-life-between-the-covers-of-a-book-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"“Would You Put Your Life Between The Covers Of A Book?” – Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the April issue of The Sword and Staff publication, volume 48, No. 1, pg. 5, editor James Gibbons records a personal testimony of a discussion he once had with a Methodist minister. Brother Gibbons was once a member of the Methodist church, but found, through a diligent study of the Scriptures (2 Timothy 2:15 ASV), that their teachings regarding the mode of baptism and the baptism of babies were contrary to the teachings of the Bible.<\/p>\n

When Brother Gibbons confronted the Methodist preacher with questions regarding the above unscriptural practices, the preacher replied with the following retort:<\/p>\n

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Would you put your life between the covers of a book?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Obviously, the Methodist preacher didnt have much regard for the validity or the authoritative teaching of the Bible, for the Bible never mentions sprinkling as a mode of baptism, nor does it promote the baptism of babies. Unfortunately, this ministers view of the Bible was the same view as many folks in the so-called “religious” world view it as just another secular book authored by man.<\/p>\n

Dear reader, we dare not view the Bible as just another secular book! (cf. John 12:48; 2 Corinthians 5:10-11). We must view it as the inspired Word of God coming directly from the mind of God<\/strong> to man through Holy Spirit inspired authors (2 Timothy 3:16 ASV; 2 Peter 1:16-21; cf. Gal. 1:11-12; Ephesians 3:1-6).<\/p>\n

Thus, the Methodist ministers question posed to Brother Gibbons can be quickly answered by true followers of Christ:<\/p>\n

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Yes, I would put my life between the covers of a book, if the book is the Bible Gods revealed and inspired word to man<\/strong>” (Ephesians 3:1-6; 2 Timothy 3:16 ASV).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Like Brother Gibbons, let us be willing to test all religious teachings<\/strong> we receive by the inspired Word of God, searching the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things are so (1 John 4:1-6; 2 Timothy 3:16 ASV; Acts 17:11).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the April issue of The Sword and Staff publication, volume 48, No. 1, pg. 5, editor James Gibbons records a personal testimony of a discussion he once had with a Methodist minister. Brother Gibbons was once a member of the Methodist church, but found, through a diligent study of the Scriptures (2 Timothy 2:15 … Continue reading ““Would You Put Your Life Between The Covers Of A Book?” – Bible study”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}