Psalm 119 Analysis

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Sorry for going over Professor. I loved this Chapter and should probably have shortened it down. But I just believe this might be the most important lesson for all Christians. If you know this is God’s Words, how can you not fall in love with Psalm 119?
At The King’s University one of my Professors, Dr. Dale Buffington, took me under his wing and consistently challenged me to go deeper in the Word with every class lesson. About half-way into my second year I told him, “I can no longer do this.” He asked why and I told him, “I am not sure these are God’s Words and I am not a liar. I for sure do not want to be held accountable as a false teacher.” He began to laugh and I was very troubled by his laughing. When I asked why he was laughing, he …show more content…

Anyone, reading this chapter I just want to stop you right here so you don’t miss out on the rest of the class. You may be a senior at Liberty and still doubt if the Bible is inerrant and infallible. One look around the United States and you will see all kinds of false teachers telling us God does not speak today, the Early Church mistranslated the Bible and so on. Do not leave this class without God teaching you the Bible is true. Simply stop right now and pray. Ask God if this is His Words or something made up by man. Lets just get that part out of the way so we can really start learning something awesome from God.
I believe most Christians will go their whole life doubting the Bible to be completely true. C. S. Lewis has written on how evil speaks to put doubt in us. I believe one of the major problems in our church is that most people doubt the Bible is one-hundred percent from God. If we can just address this first, I believe the Bible would become more than an app on our phone. Perhaps the next time we held the Bible in paper, we would hold it as if it were something of huge

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