Ladies and gentlemen what is the most important discipline you need to master if you want to defend the Christian faith?

Certainly the Bible is at the top of the if you want to defend the Christian faith.

Certainly the Bible is at the top of the list,

but there's something else that you need to know

in order to understand the Bible,

and that is philosophy. Philosophy didn't Paul say in

Colossians see to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive

philosophy which depends on human

tradition and the elemental forced spiritual forces of this world rather than

on Christ? Frank how can you say philosophy is important? It seems like the Bible is saying we ought not get into philosophy.

Well, to help us sort through all this is my friend the great Richard G. Howe who was my

professor at Southern Evangelical Seminary and is still a professor there

SES. edu forward slash Frank you may get and is still a professor there, S. E.D.U.

you may get a scholarship.

It's where you want to go if you really want to learn philosophy,

apologetics, and theology, but why would we want to learn philosophy, the great Richard Geehau?

Why would we want to do that?

Well, this verse is often brought up when this question comes out, and I love the translation

you just read. I'm not sure which one

that was because I think it's a lot more to the point of sort of what see what is

this translation this is the NIV, the nearly inspired version.

Let me read it again.

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