The Bible

• Truth
• More manuscripts than any other historical text
• Red Sea Scrolls

EPISTEMOLOGY

• Acquire knowledge though:
• Experience
• What we are taught/investigate

THEOLOGY

• God is eternally existent,holy, just, good, sovereign
• Made up of three persons in one God, Father,Son Holy Spirit
• Christ is the 2nd person of the Trinity, taking the sins of man, and
• giving man His righteousness
• God is within and working in His creation

Cosmology

• Everything that is, was made by a Divine Creator
• God started what we see in nature, and sustains it

ONTOLOGY

• Belief in physical and Spiritual life
• We are made up of both
• The world has both physical and spiritual things to make it up
• God is not cut off from His creation

ETHICS

• We have a basis for right and wrong on our conscious (written on our heart, Heb.10:!6)

ANTHROPOLOGY

• Man is made in the image of God
• Willingly disobeyed God
• Eternally separated from God without Christ

HISTORY

• History is teach us what we have done good or bad and learn
• What we have accomplished
• What we need to change
• What we never need to do again

DEATH

• At death your soul goes to one of two places
• Heaven or Hell
• You are eternally in the presence of God or
• eternally in His wrath

CRITICAL ISSUES

ABORTION

• Murder of a child
• SLED
• Less than 1/2 are due to:
• Incest, rape, or danger to the mother

EUTHANASIA

• Wrong, unless only being kept alive by machines

EUGENICS & HUMAN CLONING

• Generally wrong
• Unsure fully what it is

TRADITIONAL FAMILY

• Ideal Family is Mom,Dad and kids
• This is not necessary for functional family, but the best fit for it

EVIL & SUFFERING

• God allows suffering to push us toward Him
• Evil shows us how much more good there is in Christ