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- Week 4
Study
Why are you at Uni?
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Why bother to study?
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• Couldn’t think of anything else to do
• You want a degree• You want a decent job• It honours God (worship)
- Prov 23:12 & 23• You want to learn to think• It is OK to think!!!!
Knowledge is NOT evil!
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• Genesis 3 - the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
• Deciding for ourselves what is right and wrong
• The product is the book of Judges, “everyone did what was right in their own eyes”
• No absolutes
Answering the real questions?
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How can there be a God when there is so much evil in the world?
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What about Science versus Religion?
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Jesus is just a myth and the Bible is fiction!
Flavius Josephus
Be able to speak authoritatively on current issues
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Abortion
Euthanasia
Marriage
Finance
Use your brains to study the Bible in depth
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• John 4:22 - Jesus said, ”we worship what we know”
• Read your Bible everyday- read great chunks of it
• Get some decent study aids- Everyday with Jesus is nice, but it
just does not cut it with the serious student
We have a relationship withThe One who has the answers
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• Develop your relationship with God- Read your Bible everyday- Pray and talk to God all the time- Be “God Aware”- Worship & experience His Presence- Spend time with His people
• Out of that relationship learn to think
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