Doctrine pages 37-76

This chapter starts off talking about how God reveals himself. God reveals himself through creation, common grace, and conscience. Part of God's common grace is rain, the sunrising every morning, and setting every evening, the air we breath and the moon coming out every night. Everyone is blessed with God's common grace because every human being is subjected to it, and feels and sees these things that God has provided us with. One analogy that this book made that I liked a lot was when it said that Jesus is the Last Adam who passed his test in the garden and this imputed his righteousness to us to overcome the sin imputed to us through the sin of the first Adam. This was an excellent analogy because it paints a good picture for us to understand the relation between Jesus and every part of scripture. This book also taught be what moralizing is, which a lot of people are accused as. Moralizing is reading the Bible to only learn principles for how to live life as a good person instead of learning about Jesus. This kind of approach to Scripture is not Christian because it treats the Bible just like any other book, to learn a lesson. This chapter also talked about believing every single part of scripture. You can't add to or take away any parts of the Bible because it is all God-breathed; therefore, it is all true and trustworthy. You can't believe one thing in the Bible and then not believe another part, it just doesn't work. No part of the Bible can contradict another part. Some people might try to say that the Bible contradicts itself, but those people are just missinterpreting parts of the Bible and using their missinterpretation as a contradicting, false accusation.