“The Use of the Scriptures in Acts” is a worthy study in and of itself. Acts is part of the entire “oracles of God” (1 Peter 4:11). Our study will discuss the following: 1) What is the meaning of the term Scripture? 2) The Acts of the Apostles as Scripture. 3) The use (purpose) of the Acts of the Apostles as Scripture.

It is always important to define the terms of one’s study and follow the principle set forth by Marsh, “Define your terms and then keep to the terms defined” (1). By the term “use,” Webster defines as: “1a: the act or practice of using something . . . d: the method or manner of using something . . . 2a (1): habitual or customary practice . . . 7: a part of a sermon on which a doctrine is applied to life” (2523).

The phrase “the Scriptures in Acts” is used in the sense of Old Testament references, the apostolic letter written by “the apostles and elders and brethren” (Acts 15:23-29). It also refers to the oral teaching in Acts.

What is the Meaning of the Term Scripture?

Sufficient Evidence, W Terry VarnerLyn MillerApril 4, 2025Comment

His Last Editorial

Before I was converted to the Lord Jesus Christ, I had a few friends who claimed to believe in Jesus but, for various reasons, had rejected any necessary urgency in following Him. At that time, the only thought I had was to agree with them. After I was converted to the Jesus of the Bible, I held to a commitment of following Him with the urgent conviction that He may return at any time as He promised with need to be ready to meet Him (1 Thessalonians 1:3; 2:4; 4:1, 7; 5:8-11).

Vol 14 No 1Warren ApologeticsSeptember 13, 2024Comment

Can the History of Christianity Be Rewritten?

Christianity is a religion founded in history. Its authoritative text, the New Testament, is a document likewise founded in history. Mythology is not history, and if Christianity were simply a compilation of mythological superstitions, then it would be abjectly divorced from the reality of history. But the very opposite is the case, as we shall see: Jesus Christ and His teaching and actions, including the miraculous, are grounded in human history and human relationship, and are neither explained nor defended in a vacuum outside the scope of literal, actual human experience. One may deny the meaning or purposes of the events recorded, but not the context of human experience in which they happened and are chronicled.

John Brown, Sufficient EvidenceWarren ApologeticsJune 28, 2024 Comment

Worldview

Brad Green, in Shaping a Christian Worldview, recounts the court case Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972) in which an Amish witness was being pressured to admit that the purpose of education was fundamentally secular. The prosecuting attorney asked Mr. Yoder, “The principal purpose to attend high school is to get education, is it not? Isn’t that the primary purpose?” The Amish gentleman replied, “Yes, but I think there is a great deal of difference what education means—education for what?” The attorney pressed his point, “To put it bluntly, education so the child can make his or her place in the world.” Mr. Yoder then astutely observed, “It depends which world” (89-90).

Vol 6 No 1Warren ApologeticsNovember 3, 2023 Comment

Could America Survive without Religion?

Can freedom survive in a society in which most citizens believe that human beings, who are supposed to have inalienable rights, are merely material beings inhabiting a universe of purely material and efficient causality?

John Adams famously said that our Constitution was made “only for a moral and religious people and is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

Was he right?

Vol 5 No 2, Robert P. GeorgeWarren ApologeticsAugust 4, 2023Comment

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