STUDY QUESTIONS FOR Bible Authority (Lesson 1)

1. What is the definition of “authority”?

2. What did Jesus have to say in Matthew 28:18 about authority?

3. What, according to John 12:48, is to be the source of authority by which all accountable people will be judged at the Last Day?

4. What does Matthew 7:21 have to say about our attitude toward God’s Word as our final authority?

5. What does Colossians 3:17 admonish us to do?

6. What does Proverbs 3:5-6 admonish us to do, and not to do?

7. According to John 17:17, what is God’s Word?

8. What important point is contained in Acts 5:29?

9. How, according to 2 Timothy 3:16-17, was “all Scripture” given to humankind?

 10. Using 2 Timothy 3:16-17 as your point of reference, name four things for which the Scrip­tures are to be used.

 11. According to the last section of 2 Timothy 3:17, for what purpose did God give us the Scriptures?

 12. What does 1 John 4:1 admonish us to do?

 13. In Acts 17:11, for what were the Christians in Berea commended?

 14. What statements is found in Revelation 2:7 that still applies to people today?

 15. In 1 Thessalonians 2:13, the apostle Paul offered a comparison between two different kinds of “words.” What were they?

 16. How, according to Paul’s statements in 2 Corinthians 5:7, are Christians to carry out their lives?

 17. What, according to Romans 10:17, is the source of the type of genuine faith that is ac­ceptable to God?

 18. What does Psalm 119:105 tell us about God’s Word?

 19. What important point is contained in Isaiah 55:8-9?

 20. According to Romans 10:2, what was wrong with the zeal possessed by the people of whom Paul was speaking in that passage?

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