Wondering What to Believe?
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Does Nature Give Proof of God?8 Digging Deeper
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Can I Hear God's Voice?8 Digging Deeper
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Digging Deeper
- Does God Care About My Concerns?
- Best practices for a thriving relationship.
- God wants us to know Him
- Ways that God communicates to us today.
- God gives us scriptures through men.
- Life changing love letter from God.
- God provides us a way for a relationship with Him through Jesus.
- Are you too busy for God?
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Who is God?8 Digging Deeper
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Digging Deeper
- God reveals himself throughout time so that people can worship the one true God.
- Evidences of the Existence of God.
- A God that always keeps his word.
- God’s ways above our ways.
- The Truth of God’s Nature.
- God is a loving, caring, beneficent God.
- A God that is God is long-suffering and forgiving.
- Striving to become more like God.
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Who Wrote the Bible?8 Digging Deeper
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Digging Deeper
- The Truth in the Bible.
- The Origin of the Bible
- The single author behind the many writers in the Bible.
- God foreshadowing discoveries made in today’s world.
- Why people downplay the evidences in the Bible.
- Foreshadowing of Jesus in the Old Testament
- Using doubt as an excuse to not change.
- What it means to have faith in the Bible.
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Can I Trust the Bible?7 Digging Deeper
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Digging Deeper
- Is it possible for us to know if the Bible is true?
- The differences and similarities between faith and trust.
- The significance in the magnitude of New Testament manuscripts compared to other ancient manuscripts.
- How large numbers of discovered manuscripts support the authenticity of the Bible.
- Why do you think about the very small (.001) part of critical textual variations found in the New Testament?
- How has the Bible impacted your life?
- Do you trust the Bible?
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Is there a Right and Wrong?7 Digging Deeper
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Digging Deeper
- The different standards for determining what is right and what is wrong.
- Is it in our nature to know what is right and wrong?
- Is right and wrong discerned by each person for themselves or is it ultimately determined by a higher authority?
- What to do in a situation where two people have different beliefs on what is right and wrong?
- Is there a standard when determining what is right and wrong?
- Is the Bible is our absolute moral standard for topics such as honesty, sexuality, the value of human life?
- Do you believe you can determine with absolute certainly what is right and wrong?
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Why Does God Allow Evil?9 Digging Deeper
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Who Am I?7 Digging Deeper
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What is the Meaning of Life?7 Digging Deeper
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Digging Deeper
- What is the meaning of your life? What is your purpose?
- How Jesus brings meaning to our lives.
- How does knowing Jesus will judge both the good and the bad in our lives impact the way we live?
- What do you make of the reading from Ecclesiastes 5:15?
- What do you want to be said about your life when you’re gone?
- How our understanding of the meaning of our life impact the way we live.
- What would you say was the meaning of the life you’ve lived so far?
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Does God Love Me?5 Digging Deeper
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Group Progress
Group Progress
What to do in a situation where two people have different beliefs on what is right and wrong?
The first thing we must do is to make sure we understand what the other person is saying. This will take some questioning and clarifying. Once we understand what they saying, we then need to know why they are saying that, i.e., what reasons do they have for holding to those positions? Then we can discuss amicably and politely the differences. This would include careful listening to each other, valuing each other and speaking without anger or accusations. We can be “soft on the edges but hard (for truth) on the inside.”
A person who disagrees with us is not our enemy, nor are they dishonest or evil just because they have a different view. They are what they are because of their background, upbringing and teaching. We might be the same if we had the same heritage, environment and training. We must be respectful of each other, give each other the benefit of the doubt and treat the other person the way we would like to be treated. Isn’t that what Jesus said in Matthew 7:12: “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets”?
We would need to allow each person to explain what he or she believes without interruption and insure that each person has equal time and opportunity to speak. We would need those in disagreement to ask questions of each other, be accountable to answer the other’s questions and honestly face the implications of their beliefs.
We could ask each to read and evaluate articles or books that discuss these differences and then meet to continue the discussions. We would prayerfully seek to discover truth and ask each to accept it as it is uncovered.
We should seek to find the key issues and differences and make those the focus of our discussions.