Dealing with Doubts - Why I Believe in the God of the Bible, Part 1
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 20 May 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever been told, “All roads lead to heaven”? Or had someone tell you, “As long as you’re SINCERE about what you believe, it doesn’t really matter WHAT you believe”? If you hold to one of those positions or you’d like some insight about how to respond to those viewpoints, what Chip has to share will be super helpful.
Main Points
- Presupposition #1: Aren’t all religions essentially the same?• Answer: No, not all religions lead to the living God.
- Presupposition #2: Does it really matter what a person believes as long as he or she is sincere and practices those beliefs?• Matthew 7:13-147
- Reasons I believe the God of the Bible is the one true God
- The HISTORICAL evidence
- The PROPHETIC evidence
- The PHILOSOPHICAL evidence
- The evidence of IMPACT
- The PRAGMATIC evidence
- The evidence of UNIQUENESS
- The EXISTENTIAL evidence
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About Chip Ingram: Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.
About Living on the Edge: Living on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown it into a global discipleship ministry. Living on the Edge provides Biblical teaching and discipleship resources that challenge and equip spiritually hungry Christians all over the world to become mature disciples of Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | You know, something we hear all the time is that Christianity is so narrow-minded. |
| 0:06.0 | I mean, how can you say that there's only one God? |
| 0:09.0 | I mean, as long as a person is sincere in their belief, does it really matter? |
| 0:13.0 | Well, today I want to tell you, it really does, and I'll tell you why. |
| 0:17.0 | Stay with me. |
| 0:18.0 | Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. Our mission |
| 0:26.6 | is to inspire Christians to be genuine followers of Jesus and to empower them to be active |
| 0:31.8 | disciple makers in our world. Today we're continuing our series dealing with doubts, reaffirming |
| 0:37.3 | your personal faith. |
| 0:38.9 | Over the next two programs, Chip will challenge us to think about God in a different way. |
| 0:43.4 | That'll cause us to worship him more intentionally and remind us why we can trust his promises. |
| 0:49.0 | But before he dives in, let me encourage you to use Chip's message notes while you listen. |
| 0:53.8 | They include his brief |
| 0:55.0 | outline and all the supporting scripture he references. To download these message notes, |
| 0:59.7 | go to the broadcasts tab at Livingontheedge.org, app listeners tap fill in notes. Well, if you're |
| 1:06.5 | ready, here's Chip with this talk, why I believe in the God of the Bible. |
| 1:17.0 | I was recently walking through the hallways of our church in between services, and I mean, it was chaotic. |
| 1:23.4 | You know, one service was coming in, and another was leaving, and people had their kids, and the place was super crowded. |
| 1:27.8 | And I was walking. I saw an Asian couple that were just kind of standing there, |
| 1:33.6 | and I couldn't tell whether they were lost or needed help with their child or were a multicultural church, so lots of people from all kind of backgrounds. |
| 1:36.1 | And so I just was prompted. |
| 1:37.4 | I said, excuse me, can I help you all? |
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