"Christian Truth And Its Defense" by David Bishop

• The path to heaven: You are a sinner; The penalty of sin is death; Christ died for you; You can be saved through faith.
• Works we do for God cannot save from sin, because works do not pay the penalty for sin.
• The method for determining the accuracy of historical knowledge is called the “legal historical method”.
• If there was no resurrection, there is no christianity.
• The commandment “thou shalt not kill” is better translated “thou shalt not murder.”
• Christianity is indeed a rational faith with good and adequate reasons for believing what we believe as Christians.
• One of the main things that divides Catholics from Protestants as well as different denominations within Christianity is tradition. Tradition is nothing more than rules and rituals considered aids to worship, made up by men, that are practiced in churches.
• God has set a standard of righteousness that He expects every one of us to meet.
• Path to Heaven
• You are a sinner (Romans 3:23)
• The penalty of sin is death (Romans 6:23)
• Christ died for you (Romans 5:8)
• You can be saved through faith (Ephesians 2:8-9)
• Christ died in your place as your substitute!
• Faith in Christ saves from sin. Works we do for God cannot save from sin, because works do not pay the penalty for sin.
• You must trust in Christ and Christ alone for forgiveness of all your sins.
• There are two main things that constitute the fundamental difference between Christianity and all other religious systems: The forgiveness of sin and the welcome to the sinner.
• The Bible speaks of two kinds of righteousness:
• Active righteousness is that which we produce by keeping the Ten Commandments, following Christ in discipleship, and otherwise actively working good deeds.
• Passive righteousness is the righteousness of faith.
• The Bible teaches there are two states a Christian can be in, though he is a Christian. He is either a “spiritual man” or a “carnal man.”
• As a Christian grows in his faith through personal Bible study, attending a good Bible-teaching church, and fellowship with other believers, he begins to grow in knowledge of the Lord.
• The Christian whose lifestyle is characterized by disobedience and indifference not only suffers the natural consequences and tragedy which sin brings within itself, along with the attendant miseries and sufferings, but misses out on the peace and blessings that come from a close walk with the Lord.
• The methodology for determining the accuracy of historical knowledge is called the “legal historical method.”
• The first step in investigating the validity of any past historical event or person when the eye witness are no longer living is to examine the documentary evidence.
• The criteria used to evaluate the documents of all historical events is called the bibliographical test of verification. There are two parts to this test. One concerns the number of manuscripts still in existence. The other part of the test is the time distance between the original events and first recording of them and the earliest manuscript copy found to date.
• The written record of Christian origins are available in far greater number and antiquity than are those of any other personages or happenings in the whole history of the world to the invention of the printing press.
• One of the greatest credentials through which Christ authenticated His identity were through the miracles that He did.
• Christianity is based on the historical event of the resurrection of Christ. If there was no resurrection, there is no Christianity.
• The vast majority of non-Christian religions in the world such as Buddhism, Confucianism, or Hinduism, are based on the ethical teachings of its originators - not on a verifying historical event.
• The Old Testament is the account of a Nation. The New Testament is the account of a Man. The nation of Israel was founded and nurtured by God to bring that Man into the world. God Himself became Man, to give mankind an understanding of what God is like, and to provide a means of salvation to a fallen race.
• The Commandment “thou shalt not kill” is better translated “thou shalt not murder.”