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Biblical evidence for a young earth Stay in the battle! Steve

Various ways students interpret Genesis 1: “Young Earth,” “Gap Theory,” “Day-Age,” “Theistic Evolution,” “Allegorical/Symbolic/Mythological/Poetic interpretation.” How Christians have become intimidated by Philosophical Naturalists. Some scientific evidence that points to a young earth. Stay in the battle! Steve Stay in the battle! Steve

Romans 7:14-25 has been a controversial passage for many centuries. This is part 2 of a two-part study, in which I attempt to clarify why I am convinced that the “minority” is the correct one. If you adhere to the “majority” interpretation, […]

Romans 7:14-25 has been a controversial passage for many centuries. In this two-part study, I attempt to clarify why I am convinced that the “minority” is the correct one. If you adhere to the “majority” interpretation, please don’t see this study so […]

10 and this commandment, which was to result in life, proved to result in death for me; 11 for sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. 12 So then, the Law is holy, and the […]

7 What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not […]

But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter. (Romans 7:6) Stay in the battle! Steve

4 Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for […]

1 Or do you not know, brethren (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives? 2 For the married woman is bound by law to her husband […]

This is a brief (~ 6-minute) excerpt from Steve’s introduction to Romans 7. It encourages Christians to be gracious when they find themselves disagreeing with other believers about secondary or tertiary issues.

1 Or do you not know, brethren (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives? 2 For the married woman is bound by law to her husband […]

20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 Therefore what benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death. 22 But […]

I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, resulting in […]

And having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. (Romans 6:18) Stay in the battle! Steve

But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed (Romans 6:17) Stay in the battle! Steve

15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be! 16 Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom […]

For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace. (Romans 6:14) Stay in the Battle! Steve

And do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. Stay in the Battle! Steve

This is the seventh video designed to help Christians get better equipped to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with others, as God gives us opportunities. This video focusses on the fifth outline topic, FAITH.

This is the Sixth video designed to help Christians get better equipped to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with others, as God gives us opportunities. This video focusses on the fourth outline topic, CHRIST. Stay in the Battle! Steve

This is the fifth video designed to help Christians get better equipped to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with others, as God gives us opportunities. This video focuses on the third outline topic, GOD. Stay in the Battle! Steve

This is the fourth video designed to help Christians get better equipped to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with others, as God gives us opportunities. This video focusses on the second outline topic, MAN.

This is the third video designed to help Christians get a little better equipped to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with others, as God gives us opportunities. This video focusses the Evangelism Explosion (EE) outline and the first outline topic, GRACE. […]

This is the second video designed to help Christians get a little better equipped to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with others, as God gives us opportunities. This video focusses on the use and value of the two diagnostic questions as […]

This is the first in a series of Standing Firm Bible Study Class videos about how we can use the Evangelism Explosion method to get better equipped to share the Gospel when God gives us opportunities to do that. Stay in the […]