How and Why We Should Read the Bible
Salvation through Christ is the center of Scripture.
July 6, 2023
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Salvation through Christ is the center of Scripture.
Once we were no people, but now we are God’s people (1 Peter 2 :10). We are drawn into the life of God, and we are thereby changed.
Reading the Bible can lead to knowledge of God, and knowledge of God can lead to salvation.
All of Scripture is divinely inspired, but what do we do with the parts that challenge us? Rather than ignoring those sections, David Watson proposes that we allow the gospel of Jesus to interpret those texts to us.
The project known as the demythologization of Scripture was a great tragedy in the life of the church. Watch this video from David Watson.
God speaks to us through the Bible and leads us into salvation. David Watson shares how the purpose of biblical revelation is to draw us deeper into the life of God.
Scripture is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness. Read more from David Watson as he writes on the Bible’s inspiration and purpose.
How does Scripture’s authority work? Not only does the Bible make binding claims on our lives, it also has the backing of its divine author behind it—the trinitarian God.
David Watson shares that Bible was given to us so that we might know God and be transformed into the image of Christ as we are caught up into the divine life.
David Watson explains how the creedal teachings of the church provide some helpful parameters for our interpretation of Scripture.
We are pleased to release Scripture and the Life of God by David F. Watson. In its pages, he leads us into a way of reading the Bible that assumes it is God’s gift to the world for the purpose of forming a special people.
How did we get the New Testament canon as we know it today? In today’s Seven Minute Seminary, Dr. David Watson dispels some common myths and illuminates the historical process by which the early church recognized certain books as authoritative.