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Questions for Reflection and Discussion
1. Why must God be self-existent? What if God had been created?
2. What if God had not given Adam and Eve a free will, and they had no choice but to obey God? Would that change the way we relate to God? If so, how?
3. Even though God chose the Jews to be his people, they rarely acted like it. Why did they have such a hard time obeying God? Why would anyone -- including people living today -- rebel against the loving, caring, all-knowing, all-powerful God?
4. In what way are you a character in God's story? Is the story still being written? How?
5. After reading through the entire Bible summary, what do you consider to be the major theme of the Bible? How does this affect your Bible reading?
6. Discuss the characteristics and personality of God as revealed in the Bible. Give specific examples.
7. How does the Bible impact your thinking about sin? Life? Death? Jesus?
In preparation for tonight's group discussion on Knowing the Bible101, I re-read Chapter 3. Yes, my plans posted back in May states we should be discussing Chapter 5 on August 7th , but obviously my story is still being written and I am not all knowing, or all powerful, like God; so I'll keep pressing forward with a new plan to discuss two or more chapters in hopes to complete this study in time for Advent.
Thankfully as I read through the Bible summary in Chapter 3 I knew all the key points and have been taught over my 30 plus years of attending a Bible teaching church that Jesus is the major theme of the Bible. I find grea…
I am excited to be back in Quartz Hill and able to attend tonight's (Wednesdays) Bible Study at Christ Our Savior Church. I'm planning to see Rene, Marcia, and Mary Alice at 6:30PM. If you are just now stumbling across our blog and you are curious about Knowing the Bible 101, you can jump into this study anytime. Time is a dimension unique to mankind. God is outside of time which explains how God is self-existent and not created. Question #1 of Chapter 3 instantly caused me to think of the question, "Which came first? The chicken or the egg?" It is the linear timeline, which humans are governed by, that makes the chicken and egg scenario a riddle.
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