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Scriptural Apologetics 101 serves as an excellent book for studying the basic Bible Doctrines. They are set forth in a simple and easily understandable way. Bible Teacher John Scott Roesch is a very knowledgeable teacher of the Bible.
Each reader would do well by learning from this book.
Joseph F. Roberts, ThD, PhD.
Director
International Missionary Baptist Ministries Editor
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The Facts About the Rapture
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70 Weeks of Daniel
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The Doctrine
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The Heresy
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The Reality
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The Facts About the Body of Christ
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The Simple Forming of the Base
029
The Supposed Flock of the Body
032
The Sensational Future of the Bride 041
The Facts About Biblical Church Giving 047
Two Biblical Examples on Giving
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Giving Under the Law (The Tithe)
055
Giving Under Grace (The Attitude)
057
Giving Under Grace (The Promise)
060
Giving Under Grace (The Example)
063
The Facts About Scriptural Baptism
068
Jesus’ Example and the Trinity
070
The Baptisms of the Baptist
073
Baptisms Performed by Jesus
075
The Command to Baptize
077
The Representation that is Baptism
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The Purpose of Baptism
087
Works of Righteousness
090
Qualifications for Baptism
094
The Facts About the Lord’s Supper
096
The Last Supper is the First Supper 097
The Purpose of the Lord’s Supper
099
Qualifications for the Lord’s Supper 101
We Are Judges
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Apologetics is a word that some people are scared of for really no reason at all. Put in the simplest terms, it is knowing why you believe something.
Children that believe in Santa Claus will tell you that they believe because someone (many times the parents) told them about him. They might mention that there are a lot of television specials about him as well.
That is the foundation of their faith in their belief.
Their honest trust in the people who told them this doesn’t make Santa any more real.
Just because someone tells you something; just because you’ve heard it all your life; in fact, just because you’ve heard something in a sermon doesn’t mean it was right. Unchecked but trusted facts can lead to heresy; Scripture even tells us to try the spirits.
This book contains scripture to back up our beliefs, and is the first in a series of books to equip anyone with the facts to prove or disprove their beliefs.
This purpose of this isn’t to insult anyone; its sole intention is to explain what the Bible teaches in a kind but straightforward way.
These are not Baptist beliefs, they are Biblical beliefs, told in a non-complicated (we hope) way.
Thank you, and God bless.
John Roesch
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All Scripture is From the King James Version of the Holy Bible
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The Facts About the Rapture
What we believe concerning the rapture can have many different effects on us as believers. I live in Florida, and on more than one occasion, we’ve experienced strong hurricanes. When we’re warned of one of these, we make preparations; we stock up on non-perishable food (in case the power goes out); water, in case our water supply becomes non-purified and we can’t boil it because our stoves are electric.
We buy enough batteries for anything that uses them, including flashlights and radios, among other things.
It is only because we are warned of the storm that allows us to prepare for it. If earthquakes had early warning, five or six days in advance, those warnings, I am sure, would not go unheeded.
We all know and have witnessed to those unsaved around us, and many times this witnessing involves the return of Jesus. Those who believe in the pre-tribulation rapture probably tell how the next event on God’s calendar is the rapture of the saved, and how bad the world would be afterwards, warning them that they don’t want to be here when that happens.
If they have the timing of the rapture wrong, when these events in Revelation come to pass, two things will be different. First, they are wondering why they are still here, and that (they believe) the Bible was wrong, and if that’s the case, what else was it wrong concerning? They can end up with a broken spirit.
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Second, those that they witnessed to will have no reason to believe anything they were told about the Bible because this one thing that they are part of, these events, show that they were lied to about the Bible, and this can harden a heart.
Without any preparation, living in these times would be even more difficult than it should be; it’s already expected to be demanding.
In this study, we want you to see why a pre-tribulation rapture is a heresy, and the mid-tribulation belief stands up to scripture.
We will look first at the prophesy of the 70 weeks, giving us the timeframe of these events.
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70 Weeks of Daniel
The seventieth week of Daniel is quickly approaching, for those wanting a refresher course, or simply to see our perspective on it, let us go into a little detail at this point.
Daniel chapter 9 contains what is arguably the most important prophecy recorded, for it shows the timetable of God’s plan of redemption.
Daniel 9
24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy
people and upon thy holy city, to finish the
transgression, and to make an end of sins,
and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and
to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to
seal up the vision and prophecy, and to
anoint the most Holy. 25 Know therefore
and understand, that from the going forth of
the commandment to restore and to build
Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince
shall be seven weeks, and threescore and
two weeks: the street shall be built again,
and the wall, even in troublous times. 26
And after threescore and two weeks shall
Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and
the people of the prince that shall come shall
destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the
end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto
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the end of the war desolations are
determined. 27 And he shall confirm the
covenant with many for one week: and in
the midst of the week he shall cause the
sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for
the overspreading of abominations he shall
make