The Truth of Life Bible Study

The Truth of Life Bible Study That Age Old Question Look up John 18:38 to find out what it is.

The Truth of Life Bible Study That Age Old Question Look up John 18:38 to find out what it is. "What is truth?" Pilate asked. With this he went out again to the Jews and said, "I find no basis for a charge against him.

The Truth of Life Bible Study The world isn t concerned with listening to Jesus answer either. A post-modern view of truth is that it is relative, not objective or absolute. Thus, the truth of a particular statement depends on the views of the one making it. So you can have your truth and I can have mine. Even if our truths opposed each other, relativism would consider them both truths. For example, you could say, Embryos are human beings. I could say, Embryos are not human beings. Relativism would see these both as being truth if that is what we believed.

The Truth of Life Bible Study The Word s Answer Look up the Word s answer to Pilate s question.

The Truth of Life Bible Study The Word s Answer John 17:17

The Truth of Life Bible Study The Word s Answer John 17:17 Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.

The Truth of Life Bible Study The Word s Answer John 14:6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

The Truth of Life Bible Study The Word s Answer What can happen even among those who have known the Word s answer?

The Truth of Life Bible Study The Word s Answer What can happen even among those who have known the Word s answer? 2 Timothy 2:17-19

The Truth of Life Bible Study The Word s Answer What can happen even among those who have known the Word s answer? 2 Timothy 2:17-19 Their teaching will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, who have wandered away from the truth. They say that the resurrection has already taken place, and they destroy the faith of some. Nevertheless, God's solid foundation stands firm, sealed with this inscription: "The Lord knows those who are his, and, "Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from wickedness."

The Truth of Life Bible Study The Word s Answer What can happen even among those who have known the Word s answer? 2 Timothy 4:3-4

The Truth of Life Bible Study The Word s Answer What can happen even among those who have known the Word s answer? 2 Timothy 4:3-4 For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

The Word s Answer and the Value of Life When it comes to the value of human life, even some in the Church have swerved from the Word s answer and wandered off into the myths of the world s answer. It can happen to any of us. We all need to be reminded about the Truth of Life as revealed in God s Word of Truth.

Truth of Life #1 Life Begins at Conception

Truth of Life #1 Life Begins at Conception The myth that people have wandered off into is, No one knows when life begins.

Truth of Life #1 Life Begins at Conception The myth that people have wandered off into is, No one knows when life begins. Read Psalm 51:5

Truth of Life #1 Life Begins at Conception The myth that people have wandered off into is, No one knows when life begins. Read Psalm 51:5 Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.

Truth of Life #1 Life Begins at Read Psalm 51:5 Conception Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me. When does David say his sinfulness began?

Truth of Life #1 Life Begins at Read Psalm 51:5 Conception Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me. Therefore, when did David s humanness begin?

Truth of Life #1 Life Begins at Read Luke 1:44 Conception

Truth of Life #1 Life Begins at Read Luke 1:44 Conception As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.

Truth of Life #1 Life Begins at Read Luke 1:44 Conception As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy. John the Baptist does not just leap in Elizabeth s womb, he leaps for joy. What does this indicate about John?

Truth of Life #1 Life Begins at Conception This truth of life from God s Word has been discovered by embryologists and has become a truth of biology. Embryology text books used in our medical schools teach this truth. For example: Zygote: This cell results from the union of an oocyte and a sperm. A zygote is the beginning of a new human being (i.e. an embryo). (Emphasis added.) Keith L. Moore and T.V.N. Persaud, The Developing Human (Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 1998), 2.

Truth of Life #2 God s Involvement in the Creation and Redemption of Life Gives Value

Truth of Life #2 God s Involvement in the Creation and Redemption of Life Gives Value The myth that people have wandered into is, Those not born or those in a coma or minimally conscious state may be human, but they do not have the same value as other humans.

Truth of Life #2 God s Involvement in the Creation and Redemption of Life Gives Value Read Psalm 139:13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.

Truth of Life #2 God s Involvement in the Creation and Redemption of Life Gives Value Read Job 10:8-12

Truth of Life #2 God s Involvement in the Creation and Redemption of Life Gives Value Read Job 10:8-12 8 "Your hands shaped me and made me. Will you now turn and destroy me? 9 Remember that you molded me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust again?

Truth of Life #2 God s Involvement in the Creation and Redemption of Life Gives Value Read Job 10:8-12 10 Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese, 11 clothe me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews? 12 You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your providence watched over my spirit.

Truth of Life #2 God s Involvement in the Creation and Redemption of Life Gives Value What words in these verses indicate an intimate involvement by God in the creation of life?

Truth of Life #2 God s Involvement in the Creation and Redemption of Life Gives Value Read Acts 17:24-25.

Truth of Life #2 God s Involvement in the Creation and Redemption of Life Read Acts 17:24-25. Gives Value 24"The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else.

Truth of Life #2 God s Involvement in the Creation and Redemption of Life Gives Value Read Acts 17:24-25. 24"The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. To whom does this God-given value of human life apply?

Truth of Life #2 God s Involvement in the Creation and Redemption of Life Gives Value Read Acts 17:24-25. 24"The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. 25And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. God loved what He made with His hands so much that He sent Jesus to buy us back from sin and death.

Truth of Life #2 God s Involvement in the Creation and Redemption of Life Gives Value Read 1 Corinthians 6:19-20

Truth of Life #2 God s Involvement in the Creation and Redemption of Life Gives Value Read 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 19Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.

Truth of Life #2 God s Involvement in the Creation and Redemption of Life Gives Value Read Luke 1:31

Truth of Life #2 God s Involvement in the Creation and Redemption of Life Read Luke 1:31 Gives Value You will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus.

Truth of Life #2 God s Involvement in the Creation and Redemption of Life Gives Value Read Luke 1:31 You will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus. Exactly when did Jesus become human so He could pay the price for our redemption? (See also Hebrews 2:14 Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death that is, the devil. )

Truth of Life #2 God s Involvement in the Creation and Redemption of Life Gives Value Jesus was shaped and formed in a womb just as we were. What does this say about the value of unborn human life?

Truth of Life #2 God s Involvement in the Creation and Redemption of Life Gives Value Jesus was shaped and formed in a womb just as we were. What does this say about the value of unborn human life? John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Truth of Life #2 God s Involvement in the Creation and Redemption of Life Gives Value Jesus was shaped and formed in a womb just as we were. What does this say about the value of unborn human life? 1 Peter 3:18 For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit.

Truth of Life #2 God s Involvement in the Creation and Redemption of Life Gives Value To whom does this God-given value apply?

The Truth of Life #3 Abortion is a Sin against the Lord of Life

The Truth of Life #3 Abortion is a Sin against the Lord of Life The myth that people have wandered off into is, The Bible never says abortion is wrong.

The Truth of Life #3 Abortion is a Sin against the Lord of Life The myth that people have wandered off into is, The Bible never says abortion is wrong. Read Exodus 20:13

The Truth of Life #3 Abortion is a Sin against the Lord of Life The myth that people have wandered off into is, The Bible never says abortion is wrong. Read Exodus 20:13 You shall not murder.

The Truth of Life #3 Abortion is a Sin against the Lord of Life The myth that people have wandered off into is, The Bible never says abortion is wrong. Read Exodus 20:13 You shall not murder. So, is abortion a sin? What about euthanasia and assisted suicide?

The Truth of Life #4 The Bible Makes no Distinction between Born and Unborn Life

The Truth of Life #4 The Bible Makes no Distinction between Born and Unborn Life The myth that people have wandered off into is, The Bible gives less value to the unborn.

The Truth of Life #4 The Bible Makes no Distinction between Born and Unborn Life The myth that people have wandered off into is, The Bible gives less value to the unborn. Luke 1:41 When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.

The Truth of Life #4 The Bible Makes no Distinction between Born and Unborn Life The myth that people have wandered off into is, The Bible gives less value to the unborn. Luke 2:12 This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.

The Truth of Life #4 The Bible Makes no Distinction between Born and Unborn Life The myth that people have wandered off into is, The Bible gives less value to the unborn. 2 Timothy 3:15 and how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

The Truth of Life #4 The Bible Makes no Distinction between Born and Unborn Life The myth that people have wandered off into is, The Bible gives less value to the unborn. The same Greek word for a very small child, brephos, is used in each of these passages.

The Truth of Life #4 The Bible Makes no Distinction between Born and Unborn Life The myth that people have wandered off into is, The Bible gives less value to the unborn. Genesis 25:21-22 21 Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. The LORD answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant. 22 The babies jostled each other within her, and she said, "Why is this happening to me?" So she went to inquire of the LORD.

The Truth of Life #4 The Bible Makes no Distinction between Born and Unborn Life The myth that people have wandered off into is, The Bible gives less value to the unborn. Genesis 17:25 and his son Ishmael was thirteen

The Truth of Life #4 The Bible Makes no Distinction between Born and Unborn Life The myth that people have wandered off into is, The Bible gives less value to the unborn. Genesis 9:19 These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were scattered over the earth.

The Truth of Life #4 The Bible Makes no Distinction between Born and Unborn Life The myth that people have wandered off into is, The Bible gives less value to the unborn. The same Hebrew word for son, bene, is used in all these verses.

The Truth of Life #4 The Bible Makes no Distinction between Born and Unborn Life The myth that people have wandered off into is, The Bible gives less value to the unborn. The Hebrew word yeled is used of the unborn (Exodus 21:22 "If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely [a] but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman's husband demands and the court allows.)

The Truth of Life #4 The Bible Makes no Distinction between Born and Unborn Life The myth that people have wandered off into is, The Bible gives less value to the unborn. The Hebrew word yeled is used of the new born (Exodus 2:3 But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.).

The Truth of Life #4 The Bible Makes no Distinction between Born and Unborn Life The myth that people have wandered off into is, The Bible gives less value to the unborn. The Hebrew word yeled is used of the young children (Genesis 21:14 Early the next morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He set them on her shoulders and then sent her off with the boy. She went on her way and wandered in the desert of Beersheba.).

The Truth of Life #4 The Bible Makes no Distinction between Born and Unborn Life The myth that people have wandered off into is, The Bible gives less value to the unborn. Exodus 21:22-25 "If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman's husband demands and the court allows. But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.

The Truth of Life #4 The Bible Makes no Distinction between Born and Unborn Life The myth that people have wandered off into is, The Bible gives less value to the unborn. To whom does life for life, eye for eye, etc. apply?

The Truth of Life #5 Jesus Died for Sins against Life

The Truth of Life #5 Jesus Died for Sins against Life The myth some Christians believe to be true is, Sins against life, like the sin of abortion, are too big to be forgiven.

The Truth of Life #5 Jesus Died for Sins against Life The myth some Christians believe to be true is, Sins against life, like the sin of abortion, are too big to be forgiven. John 8:10-11 Jesus straightened up and asked her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you? "No one, sir," she said. "Then neither do I condemn you," Jesus declared. "Go now and leave your life of sin."

The Truth of Life #5 Jesus Died for Sins against Life John 8:10-11 Jesus straightened up and asked her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you? "No one, sir," she said. "Then neither do I condemn you," Jesus declared. "Go now and leave your life of sin. What two things did Jesus not do to this woman?

The Truth of Life #5 Jesus Died for Sins against Life 1 John 3:19-20 - This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence whenever our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything. What is it we are experiencing when our heart condemns us?

The Truth of Life #5 Jesus Died for Sins against Life What is it we are experiencing when our heart condemns us? Romans 8:1 - Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

The Truth of Life #5 Jesus Died for Sins against Life Romans 8:1 - Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Why is such a statement possible?

The Truth of Life #5 Jesus Died for Sins against Life Romans 8:1 - Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Why is such a statement possible? What assurance and hope flow from this?

The Truth of Life #5 Jesus Died for Sins against Life Romans 8:37-39 - No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Conclusion Ephesians 4:14-15 - Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ.

Conclusion Paul is not talking about speaking the truth in love to the world here. He is talking about the importance of speaking the truth in love to and with fellow Christians. The truth of life is one of those truths Christians need to grow in and discuss with one another in love.