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The Silence of the Scriptures

The Silence of the Scriptures. The Silence of the Scriptures. We are not to do anything in religion based upon the silence of God This is taught in the OT: Lev. 10; Num. 15; Jer. 14 This is taught in the NT: Acts 15; Rom. 10; Heb. 7. Silence is Golden.

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The Silence of the Scriptures

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  1. The Silence of the Scriptures

  2. The Silence of the Scriptures • We are not to do anything in religion based upon the silence of God • This is taught in the OT: Lev. 10; Num. 15; Jer. 14 • This is taught in the NT: Acts 15; Rom. 10; Heb. 7

  3. Silence is Golden • The silence of scriptures can be looked at in another way: consider what the Bible doesn’t say vs. what it does say • One impressive feature of the Bible is its great sense of brevity and restraint: what it does not say; this is an argument for its inspiration

  4. God’s Silence vs. Man’s Speech • Consider what the Bible would read like if man had written it • Man is interested in gruesome detail • Man is interested in sexual detail • Man is interested in mundane detail • Man is interested in self detail

  5. The Silence of the Scriptures • Where did God come from (Gen. 1:1)? • What was the fruit that Eve ate (Gen. 3:6)? • What did Moses do while growing up in Egypt (Ex. 2; Ac. 7:22)? • What does God look like (Ex. 33:20)?

  6. The Silence of the Scriptures • What happened to the ark of the covenant (1 K. 8:1-11)? • What did Jesus do from birth to age 12 (Mt. 2; Lk. 2:21, 39-40, 50-51)? • What did Jesus look like (Isa. 53:2)? • What happened to Joseph (Lk. 2:51)?

  7. The Silence of the Scriptures • What happened to Mary after Jesus’ ascension (Jn. 19:26-27; Ac. 1:14)? • What did the 12 apostles look like and how did they die (Ac. 12:1; 1 Cor. 9:5)? • What about the miracles while Jesus was on the cross (Mt. 27:52-53)?

  8. The Silence of the Scriptures • What was the exact shape of the cross (Mt. 27:32)? • What do we know about Luke (Col. 4:14)? • What happened when Paul finally met with Caesar (Ac. 27:24)? What was his thorn in the flesh (2 Cor. 12:7-10)?

  9. The Silence of the Scriptures • Man cannot resist the urge to speak where the Bible is silent • Consider the many “apocryphal” books (Gospel of Thomas, 2 Macc. 2:4-8) • Consider the many church “traditions” started concerning the life and death of Bible characters

  10. The Silence of the Scriptures • Consider the hundreds of commentaries that have been written that seek to explain matters of “silence” • Consider the many movies made of Bible stories (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Passion of Christ, Noah, etc.)

  11. The Silence of the Scriptures • How do you explain such brevity and restraint in the scriptures? The Bible is the product of God, not man! • The H.S. was the guiding hand behind the writing of the Bible (Neh. 9:30; Jn. 16:13; 1 Cor. 2:4, 13; 2 Pet. 1:20-21).

  12. Why Was the Bible Written? • Not to satisfy our curiosity or inquisitiveness • Not to merely give us history or provide us mundane information • It was written to tell us what to do to be saved and stay saved (Deut. 29:29; Jn. 20:30-31)

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