It's time for another edition of Fighting for the Faith.

It's Wednesday, September 16, 2009.

You know, I feel like today's program is going to be the first like normal program since leaving for the emergent conference last week.

I've done a couple of programs already, but those were not our standard fair if you would. Thank you for tuning in.

You are listening to fighting for the faith.

My name is Chris Rosebrough and I am your servant in Jesus Christ and this is the program that dishes up a daily dose of

biblical discernment. The goal of which is to get you to think

biblically, to get you to think critically and to compare what people are

saying in the name of God to the word of God.

Believe me when I tell you, if you have some ideas about how you think God is or

what it is that God is doing or has done and your ideas, whether they burbled up from

deep within you or whether or not they came from a guru sitting atop Mount Everest.

If those ideas contradict God's clear word,

then that information about God is false.

Yeah, that's right. There is a such thing as true and false when it comes to

information about God and his character and and

salvation and things like that and the reason why I say that is because the

Bible is the word of God. It doesn't claim to be anything less than that and our authority

for saying that is none other than Jesus Christ himself who basically affirmed that

all of the Old Testament scriptures were God's word and that Heaven and Earth would pass

away and his word wouldn't.

And it basically put his words on par with the rest of God's word and we have Jesus's words recorded for us in

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