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      • Let's explore!
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      • Discover
      • We believe
      • Focus on Prophecy
      • The Bible's teachings (1)
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      • Relationships
      • Taking charge of your life
      • Managing Stress
    • Special courses
      • Prophets and Books
      • Shema
      • Digging up the past
      • Digging deeper
      • Digging up the future
      • Daniel 2025
      • PBE Isaiah (1-33)
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The Bible's teachings (1)
  • Lesson 1. Can We Believe the Bible?
      1. Can we know what truth is?
      2. What part does prophecy play in the Bible?
      3. What effect does the Bible have on lives?
      4. Does science contradict the Word of God?
      5. In what way was it preserved?
      6. Will the Bible be overthrown?
      7. Why was the Bible written?
      8. What are the conditions to be met? (1)
      8. What are the conditions to be met? (2)
      9. How shall we study the Bible?
      Questionnaire 1
  • Lesson 2. Prophecy Unveils the Future
  • Lesson 3. The Climax of History
  • Lesson 4. The Supreme Question
  • Lesson 5. Creation and the Fall
  • Lesson 6. Sin – Its Origin and Destiny
  • Lesson 7. Why Does God Permit Suffering?
  • Lesson 8. Jesus of Nazareth
  • Lesson 9. Does God Answer Prayer?
  • Lesson 10. God's Amazing Love
  • Lesson 11. Power to Be a Christian
  • Lesson 12. The Divinity of Christ
  • Lesson 13. Is There Any Sure Rule of Right?
  • Lesson 14. Salvation by Grace
  • Lesson 15. The Sabbath of the Lord
  • Lesson 16. Shall Christians Follow God or Tradition?
  • Lesson 17. The Angels of God
  • Lesson 18. Is God Particular?
  • Lesson 19. Where are the Dead?
  • Lesson 20. How to Live Forever
  • Lesson 21. History's Coming Climax
  • Lesson 22. A Thousand Years of Peace
  • Lesson 23. The Kingdom of God
  • Lesson 24. Baptism – What does it Mean?
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Lesson 1. Can We Believe the Bible?

Male hands holding an open Bible.

DEEP in the heart of every man and woman is a longing to know the truth of things. Our most insistent question, sometimes expressed but often unspoken and even unrecognised, is: ‘What can I believe?’ With Pilate we ask: ‘What is truth?’ May it not be that, like him, we turn away without waiting for the answer and stifle the God-given
desire for it?

In an unstable world, truth offers us mental and spiritual security, a firm foundation on which we can stand and face uncertainty and ignorance with confidence and assurance. It is utterly and absolutely dependable.

Truth never conflicts with itself. It is a harmonious whole. We can know only part of it at best, for it is infinite, yet no new discovery we may make can overthrow it. If we learn something that is at variance with what we already know, or think we know, we can be sure that one or the other is not true knowledge.