A sheep in wolf's clothing.
But now your kingdom shall not continue. The LORD has sought out a man after his own heart, and the LORD has commanded him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept what the LORD commanded you.
(1 Samuel 13:14) ESV
Deductive reasoning is a way to use logic to deduce the answers to questions, but it’s also used to deduce which questions we should be asking. We use a technique which we call deductive questioning.
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“To whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, those taken from the breast? For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.”
(Isaiah 28:9-10) ESV
It’s not a good idea to pull Bible passages out of context because we’ve decided what we want them to mean and then proclaim that we have some new doctrine. That’s inductive reasoning, or eisegesis.
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declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’
(Isaiah 46:10) ESV
The Bible is consistent throughout because it combines spiritual concepts, like good and evil, with their physical expression in space and time as light and darkness. It describes their permanent physical separation.
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For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one.
(1 John 5:7) NKJV
1 John 5:7 gives us the Holy trinity, Elohim. “The Word” is God the Son, Jesus Christ, whom we have resolved with the deep of Genesis 1:2. This is going to bother a lot of people.
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“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
(Revelation 1:8) KJV
The Lord Jesus refers to Himself as the Alpha and the Omega. There’s more than one way to understand this, but it’s possible to use deduction to ascertain which is the correct one.
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“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
(Revelation 1:8) ESV
If God can be trusted, and his promise to us is that He can be, then it will be possible to demonstrate a perfect harmonization between what the Bible teaches us and the world around us.
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