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3	Outline What is compromise? What is the source of authority? What does this authority say? Where did compromise begin? What are the consequences? How can I help defeat compromise?
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8	Jesus: ‘Scripture cannot be broken’ (John 10:35)
9	The ‘Noble Bereans’
10	The ‘Noble Bereans’
11	2 Timothy 3:16–17
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16	Demolish arguments: 2 Cor. 10:5
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21	Genesis 1 and Numbers 7 Numbered sequence of days
22	Hebrew Poetry Proverbs 28:1, 7 (antithetical parallelism) The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. He who keeps the law is a wise son, but a companion of gluttons shames his father.
23	Hebrew narrative
24	Structured narrative
25	Sabbath and Creation Week
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28	The importance of history
29	Hugh Ross on the Church Fathers
30	St Basil the Great on Creation Days
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32	Irenaeus, 2^nd Century
33	Augustine of Hippo (AD 354–430) Believed in a ‘Young’ Earth!
34	Lactantius (4^th century)
35	Martin Luther, Reformer (1483–1546) We know from Moses that the world was not in existence before 6,000 years ago. We assert that Moses spoke in the literal sense, not allegorically or figuratively, i.e., that the world, with all its creatures, was created within six days, as the words read. If we do not comprehend the reason for this, let us remain pupils and leave the job of teacher to the Holy Spirit.
36	Some God of Love?!
37	Deadly Australian Fauna
38	Deadly Australian Fauna
39	World’s deadliest snakes
40	Deadly Australian Flora
41	All things bright and beautiful
42	Death according to Scripture Human death: Romans 5:12–19, 1 Corinthians 15:21–22 Homo sapiens ‘dated’ at 160,000 years ago with evidence of intelligent cultural activity Animal death: Genesis 1:30, Isaiah chs. 11, 65, Romans 8:18–25 referring to Genesis 3:17–19 Plant death Not hYj vpn (nephesh chayyāh) = living creature Bible never talks about plants actually dying as opposed to ‘withering’
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46	John Wesley (1703–1791) ‘When God created the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, at the conclusion of each day’s work it is said, “And God saw that it was good.” Whatever was created was good in its kind; suited to the end for which it was designed; adapted to promote the good of the whole and the glory of the great Creator. … ‘For as the human body, though not liable to death or pain, yet needed continual sustenance by food; so, although it was not liable to weariness, yet it needed continual reparation by sleep.
47	John Calvin, Reformer (1509–1564) ‘On each of the days, simple approbation was given. But now, after the workmanship of the world was complete in all its parts, and had received, if I may so speak, the last finishing touch, he pronounces it perfectly good; that we may know that there is in the symmetry of God’s works the highest perfection, to which nothing can be added.’
48	Death: The Last Enemy
49	Basil the Great v pre-fall animal death
50	Basil the Great v pre-fall animal death
51	Basil the Great v pre-fall animal death
52	Basil the Great v pre-fall animal death
53	Basil the Great v pre-fall animal death
54	John Wesley (1703–1791) ‘Why is there pain in the world; seeing God is ‘loving to every man, and his mercy is over all his works?’ Because there is sin: Had there been no sin, there would have been no pain. But pain (supposing God to be just) is the necessary effect of sin. But why is there sin in the world? Because man was created in the image of God: … And having this power, a power of choosing good or evil, he chose the latter: He chose evil. Thus “sin entered into the world”, and pain of every kind, preparatory to death.’
55	"‘However" ‘However, none of these [animals] then attempted to devour, or in anyway hurt, one another. All were peaceful and quiet, as were the watery fields wherein they ranged at pleasure. … ‘Meantime, the reptiles of every kind were equally harmless … ‘But …there were no birds or beasts of prey; none that destroyed or molested another; but all the creatures breathed, in their several kinds, the benevolence of their great Creator.’
56	John Calvin, Reformer (1509–1564) ‘Therefore, we may know, that whatever unwholesome things may be produced, are not natural fruits of the earth, but are corruptions which originate from sin.’ ‘And therefore some understand what was before said. “Thou shalt die”, in a spiritual sense; thinking that, even if Adam had not sinned, his body must still have been separated from his soul. But since the declaration of Paul is clear, that “all die in Adam, as they shall rise again in Christ” (1 Cor. xv. 22), this wound was inflicted by sin. …Truly the first man would have passed to a better life, had he remained upright; but there would have been no separation of the soul from the body, no corruption, no kind of destruction, and, in short, no violent change.’
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59	Why don’t most Christians believe Genesis? is that God created the heavens and the earth in six solar days, that man was created on the sixth day, and that death and chaos entered the world after the fall of Adam and Eve, and that [almost] all fossils were the result of the catastrophic deluge that spared only Noah’s family and the animals therewith. Pattle P.T. Pun, Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation 39:14, 1987.
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64	If we can’t trust the Bible on earthly things …!
65	Jesus is also fully human
66	Adam to Christ
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68	Demolish arguments: 2 Cor. 10:5
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71	Flood scoffers
72	Demolish arguments: 2 Cor. 10:5
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