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Taking God at His Word by Kevin DeYoung - Coggle Diagram
Taking God at His Word by Kevin DeYoung
Chapter One: Believing, Feeling, Doing
Three essential characteristics about the word of God (pg. 17-18)
God's word demands what is right
God's word provides what is good
God's word says what is true
Three reactions to Psalm 119
Ho, hum.
Yes! Yes! Yes!
Yeah, right.
The purpose of the book is to fully, sincerely, and consistently embrace the third response (pg. 16)
The goal of this book is to get us... (pg. 22)
feeling what we should about the Bible
doing what we ought to do with the Bible
believing what we should about the Bible
Chapter 4: God's word is clear
Clarity: God's word is understandable.
The saving message of Jesus Christ is plainly taught in the Scriptures and can be understood by all who have ears to hear it. We don't need an official magisterium to tell us what the Bible means. (pg. 44)
There is a lot at stake with the doctrine of the clarity of Scripture... (pg. 65-68)
The gift of human freedom is at stake
What God is like is at stake (is God willing to effectively communicate with his creatures? Is he able to, or is he gagged?)
The gift of human language is at stake
Chapter 2: Something More Sure
Every one of us can hear from God today, right now, at this very moment. God still speaks, and he has a word for us that is sure, steady, and unerring. (pg. 28)
2 Peter 1:16-21
Exhortation: ignore false teachers and pursue holiness (pg. 29)
Two pieces of support (pg. 29-30)
Eyewitness Testimony (1:16-18)
Authoritative documents (1:19-21)
Three truths 2 Peter 1 teaches about the nature of Scripture (pg. 34-38)
Scripture is the word of God
The word of God is no less divine because it is given through human instrumentality
The Bible is without error
Christianity is tied to history. The most important claims of Christianity are historical claims (pg. 32)
Chapter 5: God's word is final
Authority: God's word is final.
The last word always goes to the word of God. We must never allow the teachings of science, of human experience, or of church councils to take precedence over Scripture. (pg. 44)
We are quick to find reasons to reject the word of God (pg. 73)
"The music is too loud / old!"
"The church is too small / big!"
"The pastor dresses funny!"
"I knew a mean Christian once."
"I'm not interested in doing what He says."
The three branches of Christianity in the West do not agree on how on the question, "What is our ultimate authority?" pg. 76-77)
Liberal protestant: Scripture must align with reason and experience
Evangelical: The word of God stands outside and over and above all
Roman Catholic: Church tradition is the final authority, alongside Scripture
General Revelation:
Through Creation
Special Revelation:
Through Scripture
God reveals himself in two ways... (pg 78)
Chapter 3: God's Word is Enough
The Writer of Hebrews makes seven affirmations... (pg. 47-48)
The Son is the heir of all things
The Son is the creator of all things
The Son is the sustainer of all things
The Son is the revelation of God
The Son made purifications for our sins
The Son sat down (at the right hand of God)
The Son has become much superior to angels
Four ways the sufficiency of Scripture makes a difference (pg. 52-55)
With the sufficiency of Scripture, we keep tradition in its place
Because Scripture is sufficient, we will not add to or subtract from the word of God
Since the Bible is sufficient, we can expect the word of God to be relevant to all of life
The doctrine of sufficiency of Scripture invites us to open our Bibles and hear the voice of God
Sufficiency: God's word is enough.
The Scriptures contain everything we need for knowledge of salvation and godly living. We don't need any new revelation from heaven. (pg. 44)
Chapter 6: God's word is necessary
Necessity: God's word is necessary.
General Revelation is not enough to save us. We cannot know God savingly by means of personal experience and human reason. We need God's word to tell us how to live, who Christ is, and how to be saved. (pg. 44)
The Doctrine of the necessity of Scripture:
the One we need to know most cannot be discovered on our own (pg. 86)
The reason for revelation is that we might know God's mercy and be saved (pg. 91)
Chapter 8: stick with the Scriptures
2 Timothy 3:16- All Scripture is God breathed... there is no more important verse about for developing a proper understanding of Scripture (pg. 111)
"The message of 2 Timothy 3:14 through 17- we will be tempted and tried. We will get tired. We will know many pressures. We will be prosecuted if we desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus. But this is God's never-changing instruction to us: stic with the Scriptures, and steady as she goes." (pg. 113)
Four reasons we should stick with the Scriptures
Scripture's ability
Scripture's originality
Our history
Scripture's practicality
We trust the Bible because it is God's Bible. And God being God, we have every reason to take him at his word. (pg. 124)
Chapter 7: Christ's Unbreakable Bible
Whatever the perfect son of God believed about his Bible, we should believe the same (pg. 96)
John 10:35- Scripture cannot be broken- Jesus' way of saying that no word of Scripture can be falsified (pg. 97-98)
Christ never corrects a verse of Scripture that was rightly interpreted (pg. 99)
Jesus does not correct Scripture, only the misapplication of it (pg. 100)
Christ does not judge Scripture; He obeys and fulfills it. By word and deed He endorses the authority of the whole if it. (pg. 106)
For Jesus, what Scripture says = what God says (pg. 107)
"Jesus held Scripture n the highest possible esteem. He knew his Bible intimately and loved it deeply. He often spoke with the language of Scripture. He easily alluded to Scripture. And in his moments of greatest trial and weakness, he quoted scripture." (pg. 109)
Jesus' mission: to fulfill scripture (pg, 109)
What does Jesus say / think about the Bible?