Bonsall Bible Church

Genesis 50:22-26 This week we explore the chronology of the Bible from Creation to the Exodus. We take on the so called problems of the 400 & the 430 years, biblical inerrancy, translations, scribal errors & biblical corruptions, and what the bible student's attitude should be when approaching what appears to be an error in the Bible.

Romans Chapter 16 Well cover Paul's introductions, his audience, building credibility, and the patriarchy; the curious ending of Romans, the turning away, the perversion of the gospel, and warnings of those who do not serve our Lord; Paul's two sentences in Rome, the essence of the gospel; Paul's important "post-scripts"; magnifying Paul's gospel of grace; ans a survey of the historical narrative in Acts, (starting in Acts 20) to get the rest off the story of how Paul finally made it to Rome, and his ultimate earthly, (and heavenly) fate.

Romans 14 & 15 This week we will study about Unity in the faith at a time when there were differing requirements for some Jew's salvation versus the gentile believers. Who is the "weaker brother" described by Paul, and why does he use the example of eating only vegetables? Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and to Azariah, (Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego) and studying the Bible PRIMARILY as an historical narrative. We'll discuss the complete nature of the Biblical Canon, and the doctrine for all believers today: God created the universe and everything in it. Sin has brought about death. All of us have sinned and will die. God offers forgiveness and salvation from death by Jesus Christ if you will believe Him. Do you believe? We'll examine so-called "easy-believism", more about circumcision, failed prophecies in the bible and why they fail, the fact that God is a person, and Paul's preaching "to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

Romans 12 & 13 What is a "living sacrifice?" Are there commands to believers under grace? We'll cover non- conformity & contrarianism, leadership qualities for the family and the church, and Paul's subtext in Romans 12 & 13 for the unbeliever. Are the gifts Paul discusses for today? And when is it OK to hate? We'll cover hospitality in the age of social media, persecution of our brothers and ourselves, and where exactly is the place where we "give place to wrath?" Hear about how living peaceably with all men as much as you are able applies to both citizens and rulers. What is the "greater judgment" for masters? And how can believers fulfill the law, apart from observing the law?

Romans 11 Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. Predictive versus illustrative prophecy. The election of grace is corporate and not individual. Law, and grace, faith and works and reliance on Christ alone for salvation. Israels "fall", their "casting away", and how Paul refutes replacement theology. The mystery, and Paul's glorification of God's wisdom in revealing it!

Romans 10:1-15 - We cover the end of the law for righteousness, (Jesus Christ), the righteousness of the law versus the righteousness of faith, the prophetic program* for Israel from Abraham to the 12 apostles, why Jesus had to die, The Tree of Life, entropy and the eternal nature of creation, defining righteousness, another purpose of the law, the establishment of God's "peculiar" people through which He would bring Messiah, the Body of Christ compared to the Nation of Israel, the setting aside of the prophetic program for a "grace period", (in which we now live), and how God wants us to live today, *The prophetic program for Israel prophesied by the Old Testament prophets, Jesus, and 12 Apostles starting with Abraham and going to the end of the world, as I understand it, goes like this: Israel would be a nation of priests (Ex 19:6, Isa 66:21, 1 Pet 2:5-9, Rev 1:6. Rev 5:10). Their Messiah would come through their physical line (Gen 17:17, 28:14, 49:10 - fulfilled in Luk 3:34, 2 Sam 7 12-13 Fulfilled in Mat1:1). Messiah would die for Israel’s sins, (Isa 52 & 53:7 Psa 22), be buried 3 days (Hos 6:2, Mat 12:40) and rise again (Psa 16:10, Psa 22 19-21, Mrk 9:30-32, Mat 17 22-23). He would give them His Holy Spirit, (Isa 32:15, 44:3, Joe 2:28) and send them out to preach His Kingdom to the world (Isa 66:19, Mt 24:14). Their preaching would lead to persecution (Zec 13:9, Mat 24:9) the rise of the Antichrist (Dan 11:36, Mat 24:15) then Messiah’s second coming, (Rev 19: 11-15, Zec 14:16, Mat 24:2) to destroy his enemies at the battle of Armageddon (Zec 14:3, Rev 16:13-16, 19:19), and then to bind Satan and reign over the world from Jerusalem for 1000 years (Mic 4:4, Isa 2:4, Rev 20:6) before finally releasing the devil for one final, short season (Rev 20:7), proving man's inability to overcome sin and death & the devil’s inability to defeat the Lord, & establishing the Lord's authority to finally judge all things. Then the end of this universe (Isa 34:4, Rev 21:1), the Great White Throne Judgment of the lost (Rev 20: 11-15), and the creation of a new heaven and a new earth (Rev 21).

This week we study Acts Chapter 9: Separating hyperbole from doctrine, love and hate as figures of speech, God's knowledge, foreknowledge, power and predestination, Paul's analogies of nations and covenants vs prophecies about people, God's preferred kind of Jew, the six sibling swaps in the Bible, The arbitrary and capricious vs the righteous view of God, the Potter and the Clay, the raising up of Pharaoh, and the stone laid in Zion, rejected by the builders who has become the head stone of the corner.

Romans Chapter 8 Who is Paul referring to when he talks of those who "walk after the Spirit"? Hear about asceticism and the believer as a blubbering child before the Lord. Suffering in sin and in persecution. The immutability of God. The trees of theology versus the forest of the Living God, Plato, Augustine, Calvin and the changes God has gone through. Hat tip to Craig Fisher at: https://godisopen.com We discuss the creature and creation being subject to "vanity" but more so hope, predestination, foreknowledge, calling and hope, and if God is for us who can be against us!

Romans 5:12-7:25 This week we do a review of Romans so far, (the mix of Jewish, gentile and unbelievers addressed in the letter by Paul, the gospel of Christ vs the gospel of God, the Mystery, hid in God, revealed to Paul, the desperate state of the lost, justification by Christ's faith through our belief, the Romans' Road, the difference between a work and an act of faith, law vs grace, justification, propitiation and atonement). The it's on to the nature of man's relationship to sin before the law, under the law and under grace, Adam as a figure of Christ, (and Paul's tendency to make figures and analogies in new, and hard to understand ways), the purpose and inadequacy of the law, Paul's analogy of sin and the law of marriage, and Christ's separation of man from both the law and sin.

Romans 4:1 - 5:11 Join us as we examine Abraham's belief, the difference between a work and an act of faith, the perils of a works based model for salvation, tribulation and comfort, justification and atonement, the source of suffering, chastening and correction, God's grace, and our hope in the glory of God.

This week we study through Romans 1:18 - Romans 4:12, examining God's revelation from "faith to faith", following your last order first, and the plight of the lost man, the Jew first, and also the gentile. Find out about the Law of Moses, the Law of Conscience, and the Law of Christ. We'll discuss who Paul was talking about when he alluded to those who "work good", and "doers of the law." We'll also address the question of the man who never heard of Jesus, and the purpose of the law. We'll define "propitiation," and then walk the Romans Road.

Join us in our study through the book of Romans. This week Romans 1: 1-17, and differing gospels, Jewish and Gentile Believers in Christ and in Rome, gospel definitions and ownership, differing translations, Law and Grace, The Mystery and the good news for you and me today!

Studying in Genesis 4:16 - 6:22 well cover the worldly line of Cain, the dispensation of conscience, the Book of the Generations of Adam, Noah's family, higher criticism, lower criticism, textual criticism, the nephilim, a lack of miracles from Creation to the Flood, God repents and changes, gopher wood, and Noah's saving faith and action.

Join us this week in Genses3:20 – 4:15 as we examine Adam and eve’s fallen children, The Fall’s mechanism of action on man, God’s mechanism of redemption, What it was like when God clothed Adam and Eve with the skins of an animal, the essence of satanic deception, Cain and Abel, the mark on Cain, the Mark of the Beast, man’s attempt to rule over sin, and why god forbid the death penalty for Cain.

This week we study Genesis Chapter 3:8-19 covering for sin (sin makes you stupid), God's knowledge in the Garden, the grammar of masculine and feminine, righteous lies, sin, fear and shame, laying the groundwork for salvation, God's immediate and deferred judgments against Satan, Adam and Eve, sin as a euphemism, and God changing the situation for the benefit of His friends.

This week we cover Genesis 3. Satan's introduction, his name, the heavenly host, angelic beings and their domains, the origins of false religion Satan's deception deception, and temptation of Eve, the Fall of Man, and just how long after creation it may have taken place.

Genesis 2 This week we look at the evening to evening rabbinical tradition for the observance of days, the Passover and the Day of Atonement, Bible translations, the effort to obscure biblical clarity by wicked men, the scientific method and the fathers of modern science, the biblical principle regarding unborn children;s right to life, and the Tree of Knowledge.

Genesis 1:6-31 This week we consider the Genesis Creation account including: the firmament, vapor canopy theory, Heaven on Earth, God's 2 step creation report, a possible mechanism for the waters to be gathered together and the dry land to appear, Bob Enyart's wave, particle, Word triality of light, the image of God and His likeness, and the fact that God created us male and female.

Genesis 1:1-5 This week we begin at the beginning to learn about comparative religious writings, the declarations of Genesis, the plurality of Elohim, the necessity for 2 or 3 witnesses, Dr. Kirk Johnson, (Captain Kirk of recent Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History fame), creation ex-nihilo, form and void, darkness, the face of the deep, the waters, separating the light from the darkness, the trinity, the image of the invisible God, the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, plasma, and the music of creation.

Weekly Bible Study - Jesus on Hell Pt II This week find out: Who taught the most about Hell? Jesus Christ. Is talking about Hell meant to scare people? Yes! Why is there a Hell? Because in order for God to keep His promises to those who love him regarding eternal life, those who refuse eternal life will have to be kept elsewhere, eternally. Who is going to Hell? Whomever God decides. And will not the judge of all the earth judge rightly? Anyone who will not humble himself and ask God for forgiveness of sin, or for violating one’s own conscience. How long will the lost spend in Hell. Forever. Will all the lost be punished alike? No, the worse will suffer more, possibly at the hands of the others in Hell. Who rules in Hell? No one. Although Jesus decides who goes there. There will be no ruler in Hell, no beer in hell, no drugs in hell.

find out what Jesus taught about Hell. Where is it? What's it Like? Who's going there and for how long? Who rules there. And is Hell something to be afraid of...

This week in Acts 28 we’ll cover superstition, Malta vs Melita, how God can be said to be the author of everything, while never causing evil or sin, Bible Translations, and which Gospel Paul preached to the Jews in Rome.

Join us this week in Acts 26 and 27 as we study Lawyers, Justice and testimony, Palestine, Agrippa and the Gospel of Grace. Hear about Messianic prophecies of light to the Gentiles, Nazarenes and Christians, and how so called atheists and Wikipedia both steal from God. Find out the differences between body, soul, and spirit, what quantum entanglement has to do with marriage, and how the government, the market and the majority need Jesus Christ. And acknowledge and celebrate with us the William Bradford, the Pilgrim's first Thanksgiving and the prayer that made America.

This week we're in Acts 24 & 25 where the Apostle Paul preaches to some of the worst sinners in history, including Felix and Drusilla and Festus and Bernice. We'll meet the lawyer for Lysias and the Jews, examine the humorous side of Luke, and find out a bit about Augustus, the calendar, and the sect of the Nazarenes. We'll discuss the principalities and powers ordained by God in the government, where and when Paul might have written his "Prison Epistles", how Claudius compares to modern politicians and how the power of the Gospel is available to all of us, if we will use it.

This week we study Acts 22 & 23 Where the Apostle Paul tells the story of his Road to Damascus conversion, experiences the madness of the crowd, embarrasses the High Priest, manipulates the Pharisees against the Sadducees, gets rescued from God's Chosen People by the pagan Roman army, and visits the ancient city of Aphek, before his penultimate journey to Caeserea.