Complete Bible Framework

A quick review of the previous years teaching. The Bible’s two-level view of reality versus the pagan one-level view of reality. Jesus Christ poses this question to every human being: “Who do you say that I am?” The necessity for the virgin birth. The virgin birth offends unbelieving man. What unbelieving man has done with the life of Christ.

Thinking scripturally or not. The battle for the mind of the believer. Heaven and hell is the biblical solution to evil. When God created the universe, there was no evil in it. All evil originated because of creature rebellion against the Creator. Unbelief is fragile and has inherent problems (Romans Chapter 1). Sin effects how we think. Questions and answers.

The infallibility of Christ. Can a perfect person make technical errors? The testing criteria for evaluating a prophet. The inerrancy of Scripture. Critics of the Scripture’s inerrancy relocate inerrancy to concepts, things, men, or institutions. Questions and answers.

Having a correct image of Who Christ was and how He acted. Jesus Christ was humble toward God, but, in His life, His will was anything but weak. Being “Christ like” does not conform to modern standards of a “healthy personality.” The implications of Christ’s impeccability. In eternity there will be an infinite number of lessons to learn about God. The doctrine of infallibility. Jesus’ historical and scientific claims. Questions and answers.

Review of the three major implications of kenosis. Jesus Christ is a pure Judge and an empathetic Priest. It is Jesus Christ Who commends people to hell for all eternity. Jesus is the standard for behavior. If our standards for behavior negatively judge His behavior, then our standards must be wrong! The doctrine of impeccability. Questions and answers.

The implications of kenosis. The cardinal virtue of Christianity is humility before God. Christ, in His kenosis, modeled what this humility ought to look like. Christ is eternally subjected to the Father in role, but not essence. This relationship in no way demeans Him. Questions and answers.

Every Christian should know the doctrine of kenosis. Jesus Christ is the model for living the Christian way of life, proving it works. Kenosis disproves that the Christian life was different for Jesus than it is for us. The progressive sanctification of Jesus Christ. The issue of sanctification precedes the issue of sin and suffering. Examples of kenosis as it relates to Christ’s sanctification. Jesus Christ did not cheat, during times of testing, by using His omniscience or omnipotence. Questions and answers.

How unbelief handles Jesus Christ (continued). The modern response to the King. How the fallen intellect always distorts and suppresses revelation to avoid accountability to God. Implicit in our hearts, we know our Creator’s voice and don’t require a reason to believe. Unbelief rejects the existence of miracles because miracles violate the certainty of human knowledge, man being the supposed source of that certainty, not God. The agenda of unbelief is to make the world safe for sinners. The Word of God both hardens and softens hearts! The pagan worldview denies there can be any revelation from God. Questions and answers.

How unbelief handles Jesus Christ (God’s greatest revelation to man). The ancient response to the King. Jesus said that the traditions of His time were obscuring the power of the original Word of God. Jesus Christ claimed to fulfill the whole sweep of Old Testament ideas in Himself and in His work. Jesus’ personal life made people uncomfortable. Jesus Christ was self-authenticating and did not appeal to a standard outside of Him. Questions and answers.

Solitary monotheism is totally incompatible with the God of the Scripture. Implications of the hypostatic union. God cannot be revealed any more clearly than He is in the Person of Jesus Christ. Ultimately, all murder is a sinful response toward God Himself. The doctrine of the Trinity. The implications of the Trinity. Divine institutions. Questions and answers.

We can know God, but cannot comprehend Him. The Creator-creature distinction as it relates to knowledge. The tools of reasoning we use are derivatives of God’s attributes. God’s threeness relates to modes of being, not merely roles. Questions and answers.

The deity of Jesus Christ. New Testament supporting data for the full deity and the full personhood of God the Holy Spirit. Man’s sense of absolutes is derived from God’s character. God is all of His attributes. All of God is righteousness; all of God is justice, etc. Questions and answers.

The Trinity. All men know that God exists. Unbelief is self-deception. The unbeliever has to utilize the absolutes of God (create universals) in order to attack God. The one and the many in creation is derivative of the one and the many of the Creator. Old Testament Scripture where plurality in God exists and the Trinity is or may be present. Moses and the prophets saw plurality inside God. Questions and answers.

The Trinity. The issue of the one and the many. Without the Trinity there is no language or logic. Man operates everyday as if the one and the many are in harmony. Therefore, the doctrine of the Trinity is no stranger than the one and the many in our everyday lives. God is as much one as He is three. Questions and answers.

Review of the evidences for Christ’s deity. Implications of the hypostatic union. Jesus Christ is the final and most complete revelation of God. Our personal history has eternal consequences. Questions and answers.

False views of Jesus Christ’s humanity, throughout church history, compared to the biblical doctrine of the hypostatic union. If Christ is not God, worshiping Him is blasphemy. Questions and answers.

New Testament passages that speak of the full deity of Jesus Christ. God is not dependent on His creation for anything. False models for God, throughout Church history, compared to the biblical Trinitarian model. Questions and answers.

We should not study the Bible from the New Testament backwards, but instead, from the Old Testament forward. Three categories of evidence for the person of Christ. (1) Two categories of prophecy converge in human history. (2) Jesus Christ substituted for God in Old Testament passages, quoted in the New Testament. (3) Jesus Christ does the same things God is said to do. Questions and answers.

The pathological nature of unbelief. Rejecting God’s revelation begins a self-destructive process. Man is held accountable for the knowledge of God in the creation. A history of modern Gentile unbelief and the rejection of the virgin birth. God doesn’t move in history without Satan making a countermove. The “modernist” versus the “fundamentalists.” Questions and answers.

Because Jesus Christ is God’s highest revelation to man, man is measured by his response to Christ. Linking the virgin birth of Jesus Christ to the doctrine of the hypostatic union. The legal and moral necessity for the virgin birth of Christ. The spiritual necessity for the virgin birth of Christ. The virgin birth of Jesus Christ resolves the issues of imputed sin and inherent sin. The ancient Jewish reaction to the virgin birth claim.