Welcome to Digging Deeper
at Carrollwood Baptist Church 
Dedicated to growing disciples who honor and glorify the Lord God...

Meeting every Sunday, 9:00am, Room 204

• Fundamental Issues: Purpose, Texts, and Literary Bias
• Revealing Revelation: Speaking for and to the Church on Earth (Chapter 1)
• Ephesian Cults, American Cults, Smyrna Smears (Chapter 2)
• Jezebel, Thyratira, and More (Chapter 2)
• Satan Synagogues, Lukewarm Spit: Sardis, Philadelphia, Laocidea (Chapter 3)

—Views of the Heavenly Kingdom by John—

• Majesty Indeed—The Helpless Lamb, the Mightiest of All (Chapters 4-5)
• Some Seals are Broken (Chapters 6-8)
• Consequences of Evil and the Small Scroll (Chapters 9-10)

• Instructions from the Lord God About Killing His Prophets (Chapter 11)
• Quantum Revelation <> Now or Then? Both and Neither? (Chapter 12)
• Numbering the Beast <> Manuscript Background (Chapter 13)
• Gross Millenarian: Hearing the Song of the Lamb (Chapter 14)
• The Song of Moses AND(?) the Lamb (Chapter 15)
• All the Bowls are Spilled <> God's Wrath Indeed (Chapter 16)
• The Judgment of Evil--Babylon's Demise (Chapters 17-19)

Studying All
Four Gospels
Collectively as
One Gospel
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Knight's "A Simplified Harmony of the Gospels"
(Order Text Here)

How Culture Affects & Effects Truth-Seeking

Is Nanette Crist's rendition of Jesus the Christ an example of the "Cecile B. DeMille Effect;" i.e., Coloring Truth by Art, Film or Mass Media Interpretation?

An Epistemological Example:

Note How Epistemology Affected People's Responses to this Key Question...

Of all the things the Christ said or did while on earth as Jesus of Nazareth, what is the best evidence that He was indeed the Christ, Messiah, Son of God?

Click here to see how students responded to a key question: 

CURRENT CONTENT GUIDES & STUDIES

• Harmony of the Gospels

• 1 & 2 Peter

• James

• Hebrews

• How Do You Know If You're Addicted to Milk?

• Philippians

• A Pauline Approach to Conflict Resolution

• "What Must I Do to Be Saved?" Great or Dumb Question?

• Just What Allegiance Do We Owe "America" (i.e., Caesar)?

• Background Readings

What Challenges You Most About Christianity—
 
Email us at Info@DiggingDeeper.Life to see if we can answer your tough questions.
No guarantees, but we'll see if we can answer your question.

Previous Topics of Questions Include Whether Jesus Lied,
and Whether Christians View Homosexuality As Wrong

Got Questions, Tough Questions?

Our Mission

We seek to answer the tough questions faced by followers of the Christ by seeking Him through the guidance of Holy Spirit, and digging deeper into the evidence of His life and works. We seek to dig deeper into the Scriptures, the history of humankind, and the attributes of the natural world. We seek an answer to one question–Is the Christ who He claims to be?  We assert history, Scripture and the natural world are the evidence base upon which to answer this question, logically, empirically, and spiritually.

Assignments--

1. The Translation and the Introduction to the Good News, Pages xxv-15:
2. Early Life of the Christ on Earth as Jesus of Nazareth, Pages 17-26
3. Ministry Preparation: The Ground is Plowed, Pages 27-45:
4. The Physician in Galilee: Jesus Rips Off Band-Aids, Pages 46-72:
5. The Physician in Galilee: Jesus Rips Off Band-Aids, Pages 73-101

The Last Days of His Preaching & Ministry in Judea & Perea
Reading Assignment:

1. Pages 103-118 (Six-A)
2. Pages 119-129 (Six-B)
3. Pages 131-138 (Six-C)
4. Pages 139-142 (Six-D)
5. Pages 143-148 (Six-E)
6. Pages 148-154 (Six-F)
7. Pages 155-163 (Six-G)
8. Pages 163-176 (Six-H)
9. Pages 177-181 (Six-I)

Jesus' Final Days in Jerusalem
Reading Assignment (pages 183-221):

1. Sanhedrin Plots: Lazarus the Spoiler (Seven A)
2. Just What Does Belong to Caesar? Per. 165
3. Dialectic, Political & Theological Tests 193-196
4. The Olivet Discourse: Prophetic Wrestling

The Trial & Crucifixion of Jesus
Reading Assignment (pages 223-241)

1. Jesus is Betrayed & Arrested

• Rationale & Context for Peter's Epistles, Chapter 1 of 1st Peter
• DNA: Social, Biological and Theological Chapter 2 of 1st Peter
• Victory Through Submission Chapter 3 of 1st Peter
• A Real World Example of "Forgiving Enemies" Article by David French from the Atlantic Monthly
• Apologia Rules! Challenges of 1 Peter 3:15
• Suffering for the Christ; Avoiding Debauchery 1 Peter 4
• Looking for Lions 1 Peter 5

• Final Words from the Rock: 2 Peter 1
• Creating a CSI for Heresy 2 Peter 2-3

A Study of James' Epistle

• An Overview & Challenge to the "Intellectual" Believer (Chapter 1 to 2:4)

• Does the Lord God Have a Choice to Save People?

• Overcoming the Engineering Problem of 747 Wing's Import (Chapter 2)

• Humility--The Solution to Wisdom (Chapter 3)

• Adultery, Rocket Science in the Mist (Chapter 4)

• Rich and Poor: What Are We to Do? (Chapter 5)

• Background and Chapter 1 of the Hebrews Treatise

• Why Did the Christ Come to Earth as Human (Chapter 2).

• We Are God's House IF (Chapter 3)

• The Reality of God's Reality--Holding Firm on our Faith (Chapter 4 - 5:16)

• What Does It Mean to Keep "Keeping On?" (Chapter 6)

• How Our Salvation is Guaranteed (Chapter 7)

• What's Up with this "Melchizedek?" So What? (Chapter 8)

• Roots for the Christ Follower from the Pre-Christ Follower (Chapter 9)

• Tis' a Dreadful Thing to Fall in the Hands of the Living God (Chapter 10)

• FAITH? Self-Delusion or Substantitive Epistemology? (Chapter 11)

• The Beauty of Suffering and Discipline (Chapter 12)

• Final Thoughts Looking for the City to Come (Chapter 13)

Philippians

• A Study of the Letter to the Church at Philippi: Paul's Favorite Church

• Irony: Low & High <> Irony & Iron-- A Graphic Intro to Philippians 2

• Philippians 2 <> The Agony and Ecstasy of Serving the Christ

• The Kenosis Problem: Did the Christ Humiliate Himself While on Earth? Philippians 2:6-8

Philippians 3 <> "Avoiding the Dogs Within and Without" Philippians 4 <> "Rejoice in the Lord, Always"

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• Wow! He IS the Christ: Luke's Study of the Resurrection (Chapter 24)

• Luke's Systematic Study of the Christ's Crucifixion (Chapter 23)

• Continuing Luke's Systematic Study of the Systemic Yeshua (Chapter 22)

• Luke's Systematic Study of the Systemic Yeshua (Chapter 21 and includes Introduction to Studying Luke's Gospel)

• How Could Jesus the Christ Be "Begotten" If He Existed from the "Beginning?" The Nature of "Monogenei" in Scripture

A Recent Challenge Question to Digging Deeper:

"When (I think it is when and not if) science is able to show that there are many degrees of sexuality within the human genome as there are eye colors, how will the church handle this information? If a gay or transgender person is truly born that way, then God made them that way. How can it be an abomination to Him? How can it be a sin? How can The Word be inerrant?"

Here's Our Researched Response to Their Intriguing Inquiry--Read

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—Basically Fundamental—

Is Sin "Sin" or the Result of Evil?

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"What Must I Do to Be Saved?"

The Nature of Holy Spirit

Just What is "Caesar's?"

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Background Readings & Thought Provokers—

• Baptist Faith & Message Statement (2000)

• A Christian Approach to Conflict Resolution

• Just What is "Peace?" Implications for Believers

—A Previous Challenge Question—
If Jesus never lied, why did He tell people
"Only Father God is good?" See Matthew 10:18

Here's how one of our class members,
Tricia Brannon handled the question—as an indication of Trinity.

And here's another response to the question, Did Jesus Lie?
D. Thomas Porter—the full nature of assessing ethicality.