Hey guys, my name is Johnny Artivannis and this is dial in.

In this episode, I sit down with pastor and professor Eric Tannis and ask him,

what are some of the attitudes and heart postures that we should have as we approach God's word?

Let's dial in.

Eric, thanks for sitting down.

I wanted to ask you so much as said about how we need to devote our life to the scripture,

but many people today don't necessarily have an understanding of the proper attitudes that we should have as we engage God in His Word.

So what would be attitudes that you

would recommend or heart postures that we should as we approach God in His Word? Yeah, that's such

an important question because I see more and more an affirmation of the self in a way where people are more and more getting the idea

that they determine reality, that they determine truth. And what we're doing is going right

back to the Garden of Eden, where the first humans rebelled against God in deciding that they

were going to determine good and evil for themselves and not

leave that to their Creator.

And so that's really the heart of the human sin problem of this self and human centeredness

where we don't have humility before our Creator, realizing that we need him to understand what right and wrong and truth and error is.

And so we take that into our own hands.

At another level, you can end up doing that with the Bible.

You can go to the Bible and say, yes, this is the Word of God, but then handle it in a way

that isn't really consistent in that fundamental understanding of Scripture.

And so I would actually challenge people to say,

do you really believe this is the inspired, authoritative, clear, sufficient word of God?

...