The First and Final Say: Why Scripture Must Shape What We Believe About God, Ourselves, and the World

By Jeremiah Sheneman

What shapes your beliefs about God?

For many, the answer is often a mixture of upbringing, culture, tradition, experience, and the people who have shaped us. These things matter, but they raise a more fundamental question: What if God Himself has provided the way for us to know Him?

In The First and Final Say, Jeremiah Sheneman returns to the Bible's own story of God's revelation and authority, tracing the unified testimony of Scripture and the foundation it provides for belief. Along the way, he takes on an old objection: Can Scripture really claim authority for itself? And if it cannot, what ultimately gets to have the first and final say about God?

But rather than making an apologetic defense of Scripture from the outside, Sheneman offers an invitation to listen to Scripture's own story of how God makes Himself known.

This book is a hopeful call to recover the confidence that has marked Christianity from the beginning: Scripture has the first and final say over what we believe about God, ourselves, and the world.

Readers looking for a return to confidence in God's Word, and a clearer picture of Christ through the Scriptures that point to Him, will find both here.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HKC1PHVB
• ISBN13: 9798171265977
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 7.8"