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*The latest exciting episode of, Ask the Retired Pastor * Yes. I’ve read Romans 1 and 2. P.S. The last time I read Romans 1 was on 10/21/24. The last time I read Romans 2 was on 10/22/24. That’s just where I am with the reading plan (twice through the New Testament) that I’m using this...

God. Where are they getting their information from? Why haven’t they read the Bible? Everyone needs to know the words of God. Everyone needs to know the words of the Messiah and the Apostles. Everyone needs to know the words of the prophets. Everyone needs to know what is contained in the...

The subject of the thread was how to help someone who has lost trust in the reliability of the Bible. Yes, I understand that. The student worshipped God before his encounter with the Muslim. Forget God. Just give me a Bible? The student didn’t worship the Bible. He had confidence in the...

Well I guess now I can say that I’m acquainted with someone who was saved without ever having a Bible in their hand. This thread has meandered from the second post forward. How were you saved without having a Bible to see for yourself if what you were told was true or not?

Either situation is fine to consider. How effective do you think this presentation would be - “Good afternoon, sir. I see that you have a Bible. May I see it?” ”Sure.” (Tosses the Bible in a trash receptacle.) ”You won’t be needing that. I’d like to tell you about the one true God and about...

How many people would believe in God and in the Messiah if there was no Bible? The student I spoke about in the OP was on the cusp of throwing the Bible in a garbage can.

Your church has a recent sermon on how to help someone who has lost confidence in the reliability of the Bible? Welcome to the forum.

* Don’t water it. *

* The BIG Roundup Method. Fails 99% of the time but 100% better than leaving it blank. *

“To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practice, and this will forever be my rule.” - John James Audubon

I’m currently reading Jesus After The Gospels: The Christ of the Second Century, The Hale Memorial Lectures of Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, 1989, delivered and written by Robert M. Grant.

@KUWN started an interesting, and helpful, thread on that topic recently. It’s titled Islamic Approach to Textual Criticism, located in the Apologetics forum. Something that I didn’t mention to the student -> the Muslim did him a good service. The student wouldn’t have seen it that way while...

Something I would do now that I didn’t do then -> pray with the student. I prayed about the situation. He told me that he tried to pray about it but his heart wasn’t in it. I should have offered, or asked, to pray with him. It worked out but this is something that I could have done which might...