This site is called "Faith Applications" because my goal on the site is to take the Old and New Testament Scriptures, read them carefully, compare different passages with each other, interpret chapter and verse in context, and apply them to different important issues.
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Church leaders and theologians may protest this attempt to understand God's Word without ministerial credentials or seminary training. They might argue that any Christian who reads his Bible without a formal education cannot adequately grasp its meaning. However, there is another type of learning described in 2 Timothy 2:15. Here it says that we are responsible to study and show ourselves "approved unto God" in order to "rightly divide the Word of truth" on our own as mature believers.
This responsibility is echoed in Acts 17:11 where people from the Greek city of Berea are commended for their diligence in verifying the Bible's teachings: "Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true."
If the Apostle Paul's doctrine was closely examined by his audience, we had better do the same with our ministers and today's church teachings. Ultimately, this means that we don't need PhDs in theology to pick up the Bible, read it, study it, and judge the truth of what is being taught. In this manner, I will explore "what the Bible says" about many different subjects.
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