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NEW! Studies now available in outline formats. Click here. Welcome Thank you for visiting this website. Here you will find a collection of articles on varying topics of Christian theology. We invite you to question them, comment on them, criticize them, and if possible, to hopefully learn from them. This site is divided up into several sections. The main section (listed last) contains commentaries on a wide variety of doctrines and issues. We invite you to check back with us as we continue to explore new topics and post previous studies to the site. [ Just So You Know ]- For a quick check of our basic doctrine before you begin, please take a look at this page. This short section covers just the fundamentals. For our positions on the vast majority of other doctrinal issues confronting the Church today, please visit our A Brief Word On and In Depth Studies sections. [ The Foundation of Our Theology and Hermeneutics ]- This is perhaps the most important section available on this website. Here you will find an explanation of how we approach the Bible and Christian history as well as why we take this particular approach. In this section, you will also find some very basic reference materials on these subjects and, perhaps most significantly, a discussion of the central issue of hermeneutics (Bible interpretation.) This section is important for teaching critical thought and a logical approach to not only the Bible but the issues of life in general. [ Logical Fallacies ]- In this short section you will find some of the most standard forms of faulty reasoning common to public speaking and teaching. Unfortunately such faulty reasoning runs rampant in the modern Church. We invite you to check out this list and see exactly what types of arguments should be considered unpersuasive no matter what issue is on the table. [ Study Links ]- This page contains links to helpful study tools. The websites listed here cover a variety of sources ranging from internet Bible References to historical reference sites to other topical Bible studies. Some of these sites are very reliable, some are simply good information tools. We do not necessarily endorse the material presented on these sites. [ A Brief Word ]- In this section you will find editorials on a variety of topics in the Church today. These shorter, thought-provoking commentaries are designed to stir the imagination and shed a degree of sobering, common sense on some of the structures, perspectives, and practices we find in the contemporary Church. [ In Depth Studies ]- This is the main section of our site. Here you will find longer, comprehensive articles designed to relate a step-by-step, reasonable analysis of a wide variety of doctrines. These articles will delve deeply into the scriptural texts, sometimes including excerpts from Christian writers in the first and second centuries. The hope is to sift through and weed out some of the false doctrine and faulty reasoning in the hodge-podge of modern theology. [ Outlines ]- In addition to the articles on In-Depth Studies page, here you will find studies on the same topics but formatted as outlines, which correspond to and overlap the topics on our In-Depth Studies page. Also, some outlines contain additional analysis or may be presented in a different order than the written articles. And in a few cases, outlines examine topics not covered in our written articles. Although comprehensive, the use of an outline format is advantageous over the article format when it comes to examining topics in a small group study setting. In fact, these are the same outlines used in our home church meetings. Back to the top. Home | Just So You Know | About Us | A Brief Word On | In-Depth Studies | Outlines Copyright © 2001 - 2007. All rights reserved. All material on Studying the Word of God Christian Bible Studies website is copyright protected. You may link to any article on this site, but may not copy any material to another site without written permission. Permission is granted for reproducing individual articles in printed form for Church or small Bible study use. Articles reproduced for this purpose MUST be complete, text unaltered, include the authors' names (Brian K. McPherson and Scott McPherson), and include the URL of this website. Copies may NOT be sold, or included in any product for sale without written permission. Graphics on this site are copyright protected and may NOT be copied or reproduced on other websites. Should any viewer of a this website respond with information including feedback, such as questions, comments, suggestions, or the like regarding the content of any portion of this website, such information shall be deemed to be non-confidential and the authors of this website shall have no obligation of any kind with respect to such information and shall be free to reproduce, use, disclose and distribute the information to others without limitation.