What does it mean to think biblically about the most pressing issues of the day?

What are some of the most challenging apologetic questions that our culture puts in front of us today?

What do we say about the recent surveys that have been released about the state of the Bible

and about the state of theology. We answer these questions and a few

more in this conversation with Sean and me in this episode of Think Biblically,

a podcast of Tabas School of The theology here at Biola University.

Sean, let's start with this.

Where does the Bible tell us to think

biblically about the issues of the day?

We take that as an assumption, but what are some of the

key biblical texts that demand that we think biblically about the issues of the day, about

the questions that our culture has for us in the church.

In one sense, it's like a drumbeat or a golden thread through all of the scriptures.

Not only does the scripture model this but it teaches it in the Old Testament

we see it in the New Testament. So of course we go back to the creation story.

We have obviously the Great Commandment later on, but there's this cultural

mandate as well that we see early on. We can unpack that. One of the favorite

passes I just go to is Jesus talks about loving God with your heart and your soul and with your mind and with your

strength. In other words, love God with everything. Well, how do we love God with everything?

Well, first off, we got to recognize that

God is a creator of everything. There's a great Dutch philosopher and theologian and politician

Abraham Kuiper who said, there's not a square inch of creation out of which

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