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College Campus Interview: Moral Relativism & Gospel

Poster Boys for Moral Relativism——-Part 1

Poster Boys Hear the Law and Gospel——–Part 2

Has The Bible Been Corrupted?

Despite the claims of Mormons, Muslims, Divinci Code lovers, and a multitude of college professors, I believe the Bible stands as the uncorrupted Word of God. As evidence we could talk about the 23,000 or so partial  New Testament manuscripts, which is far more than any ancient text by far. Or we could even talk about how the New Testament could be reconstructed even if every bible on earth was destroyed because the early church fathers quoted the New Testament so extensively (that is very a very strong piece of evidence in my opinion). Instead I would like to take a little simpler approach that cuts right to the core of the Christian message and gives great validity to the core New Testament message.  Please read the following passage, determine in your mind who the passage is speaking about, and then following the passage I will tell you why I think it is a great help to determining the reliability of the Bible.

1 Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.

3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

4 Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted.

5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.

6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

7 He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.

8 By oppression [a] and judgment he was taken away. And who can speak of his descendants? For he was cut off from the land of the living;
for the transgression of my people he was stricken. [b]

9 He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.

10 Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the LORD makes [c] his life a guilt offering,
he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the LORD will prosper in his hand.

11 After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light of life [d] and be satisfied [e] ; by his knowledge [f] my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities.

12 Therefore I will give him a portion among the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong, because he poured out his life unto death,
and was numbered with the transgressors. For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

          I once read about a Jewish man that was given the above passage by a Christian friend.  The Christian asked the Jewish man to read the passage and to figure out the identity of the man spoken of in this passage.  The Jewish man replied that this was obviously speaking about Jesus from a Christian perspective.  The Christian Proceeded to inform his Jewish friend that this passage was actually taken from his Jewish scriptures, Isaiah 53 to be exact.  The Jewish man replied by saying that the Christian had a “Trick Bible”. 

         This passage is obviously speaking about the Death of Jesus Christ and his atonement for the sins His people.  This Gem in the book of Isaiah was actually written about 800 years before Jesus even steped foot on earth and several hundred years before crucifixion was even invented.  Obviously this is a great prophecy of the wrath Jesus would drink down on the Cross, but beyond that you might be wondering way this text is significant in proving that the bible is not corrupted today.  In the latter part of the 1940’s a boy threw a rock into a cave in near the Dead Sea.  That rock struck and shattered a clay pot that was holding ancient texts.  This was the begining of the discovery of thousands of ancient texts over the next ten years.  Arguably the most important text that was discovered in the Dead Sea Scrolls was a full copy of the Book of Isaiah.  This manuscript has been determined to have been copied about 200 years before the birth of Jesus.  The Great thing is that this text proved that the book of Isaiah that we have today is the same as the one Jews used before the birth of Christ and obviously the basic message is still the same as seen in Isaiah 53——–Jesus was “pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities;…by his wounds we are healed. 

You can trust the bible———-You can trust in Jesus for the forgiveness of your sins!  Please Repent and trust in Him today.

 

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Meet Mr. Nice Guy—-Gospel

This may just look like a silly cartoon.  Don’t let it fool you, this video has a powerful message!

Abortion and the Gospel Message

“Wow, I think He (God) really sent you to me.  I say that because I’m pregnant.  I WAS actually considering abortion.”

Listen to the conversation I had with this woman regarding the gospel message… you’ll hear how it eventually led her to keep her baby and NOT have an abortion.

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Contents

1. conversation picks up after I asked her if she would save a baby from drowning or a dog if she only had the chance to save one, and why murder and rape are wrong.

2.  1:45 – I ask why she would get into Heaven and then we proceed to go through the law of God.

3.  11:00 min –  The Gospel presentation begins.

4.  18:00 min –  Awkward silence while she takes in all that was said.

5.  19:15 min — Confession and tears.

6.  20:00 min — I pray for her and her situation.

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For more info on the topic of abortion and the case for the life of the unborn visit a little blog I have up @  www.MommyDontMurderMe.com

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Is Abortion Murder or “Choice”?

Praise God abortion was illegal when my parents were conceived!  My mother was born to a young teenager who had an affair with a older married man.  Instead of aborting my mother in some “back alley”, my grandmother went away to visit relatives, had the baby, and then gave her up for adoption.  My father was also a whoopsie that was conceived out of wedlock in the days that sex outside marriage was still considered by our culture to be sinful.  So for obvious reasons I am glad abortion was not much of an option back then.

     My birth is even a bit of a miracle.  My mother has a autoimmune disease called Lupus.  The doctors told her that she could die if she chose to have me.  She chose life!  Thank you mom.

     Today abortion is considered by many to be just another means of birth control.  In fact, unknown to most women, most birth control pills have an abortive measure that goes into effect if the primary measure (prevention of conception) doesn’t work.  But for the purposes of this article I will consider weather or not elective abortion is an acceptable practice.

  Should abortion be legal?  Despite all the fog thrown up by the pro abortion folks, there is really only one question that needs to be answered—–What is the unborn?  If an unborn child is a human from the point of conception then abortion is an act of murder.  If the unborn are not a human, then have as many abortions as you would like. If abortion is like killing a tomato then there is no need to make abortion “safe and rare” like President Obama says.  From here I would like to make a short case that abortion is never safe because it always kills someone–the baby (not to mention the greatly increased risks of cancer for women who have an abortion).

     I have learned an extremely effective way to prove the human hood of an unborn child from a man named Scott Klusendorf (www.prolifetraining.com) by using an acronym called SLED.  Here is how Scott presents the philosophical argument that the unborn are really human.  He notes that there are really only four differences between the born and the unborn :

Size: True, embryos are smaller than newborns and adults, but why is that relevant?  Do we really want to say that large people are more human than small ones?  Men are generally larger than women, but that doesn’t mean that they deserve more rights.  Size doesn’t equal value. 

Level of development: True, embryos and fetuses are less developed than you and I.  But again, why is this relevant?  Four year-old girls are less developed than 14 year-old ones.  Should older children have more rights than their younger siblings?  Some people say that self-awareness makes one human.  But if that is true, newborns do not qualify as valuable human beings.  Six-week old infants lack the immediate capacity for performing human mental functions, as do the reversibly comatose, the sleeping, and those with Alzheimer’s Disease.

Environment: Where you are has no bearing on who you are.  Does your value change when you cross the street or roll over in bed?  If not, how can a journey of eight inches down the birth-canal suddenly change the essential nature of the unborn from non-human to human?  If the unborn are not already human, merely changing their location can’t make them valuable.  

Degree of Dependency: If viability makes us human, then all those who depend on insulin or kidney medication are not valuable and we may kill them.  Conjoined twins who share blood type and bodily systems also have no right to life.

     We know that humans only reproduce humans and we know that from the point of conception that the human embryo is alive and growing.  What else could the unborn be besides a human?  If the unborn are really human then we don’t just have a few isolated murders on our hands, this is GENOCIDE—–the systematic destruction of a defenseless people group.

 

    Another way to persuade the public that the unborn are human is to show them that they are human by presenting images.  Images of fetal development are persuasive and amazing, http://prolifetraining.com/Prenatal-Pictures.htm http://www.abortionfacts.com/literature/literature_9438MS.asp  but  images of aborted babies really get the point across.  In my opinion only cold, cruel and heartless people can people can look at these images and not be disgusted with the inhumane act of abortion.  Pictures really do say a thousand words.  These images can make arguments that no words ever could.  I encourage you to click on this link and make your heart weep because of the murder of our unborn children ( http://www.abortionno.org/Resources/pictures.html )

     Most importantly there is a biblical case to be made against abortion.  In the Bible God commands us not to kill innocent humanbeings and the bible clearly portrays unborn and born children human beings.  For example, in Luke 1:41, when Mary, the mother of Jesus came to visit her pregnant relative Elizabeth, we are told that the baby leaped in her mothers womb.  The same Greek word used here for baby (brephos) is used in Luke 2:12 and Luke 2:16 to describe the baby Jesus after he was born (also see Lk 18:15, Acts 7:19, 2 Tim 3:15, 1 Pet 2:2).  The following verses also help solidify the biblical pro life case: 

Psa 71:6

By You I have been sustained from {my} birth; You are He who took me from my mother’s womb; My praise is continually of You.

Isa 49:1

Listen to Me, O islands, And pay attention, you peoples from afar. The LORD called Me from the womb; From the body of My mother He named Me.

Gal 1:15

But when God, who had set me apart {even} from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace, was pleased

Jer 1:5

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, And before you were born I consecrated you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

     God has made humans in his image and He reserves the right to determine the life and death of the humans He has created.  Abortion is a tragic result of sinful humans trying to play god.  For a fuller look at the biblical case against abortion see John MacArthur’s sermon on the topic by clicking on this link – http://www.gty.org/Resources/Sermons/80-14 .

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C.J. Mahaney Bio
President
Sovereign Grace Ministries
Gaithersburg, Maryland 

C.J. Mahaney leads Sovereign Grace Ministries in its mission to establish and support local churches. After 27 years of pastoring Covenant Life Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland, C.J. handed the senior pastor role to Joshua Harris on September 18, 2004, allowing C.J. to devote his full attention to Sovereign Grace. He serves on the Council of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals and on the board of The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood.C.J.’s books include Humility: True Greatness; Living the Cross-Centered Life; and Sex, Romance, and the Glory of God. He is the editor of Worldliness and Why Small Groups?, and has coauthored other books in Sovereign Grace Ministries’ Pursuit of Godliness series.

C.J. and his wife, Carolyn, have three married daughters and one son. They make their home in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

 

 

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