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Tonight we are going to look at the Bible.
It was never meant to sit on your shelf, but to be read, studied and used a guide book for our lives.
To deepen (or to form) your conviction that the Bible, as God’s Word, can be trusted more than your feelings, values, opinions, and culture.
Think about this.
Say you are sitting with a friend at Starbucks and he says i’m glad you like the Bible, and I’m sure its a great book, but how is it different from other books?
I’d like to trust it, but I just can’t get pas the fact that people just like you and me wrote it.
Here are the questions we will answer tonight.
How is the Bible Different from other Books?
How is the Bible different from other religious books?
Wasn’t it written by people like you and me?
These questions can be answered as we understand 3 important words.
Three Important Words and their Definitions:
1. Revelation
Revelation means that God chose to reveal his nature and his will to us through the Bible.
The Bible was written so God could show us what he was like and wants us to do.
Any understanding of God comes through his choosing to reveal himself to you and I.
2. Inspiration
Inspiration is the process through which God gave us the Bible.
God worked in the hearts of huan writers to inspire them to write down his words.
God’s words written through these people are prefect, infallible and trustworthy.
If what i read in the Bible was just from men, I can take it or leave it, but if it’s from God, I have to believe it and follow it.
3. Illumination
Illumination is the HS’s work of bringing light to the words of the Bible as we read them.
It is the means by whcih we understand the Bible.
We will go into more detail on this later.
Right now,
How do we know the Bible came from God?
You may wonder how do you know you can trust the Bible.
What makes it different from other books.
Is there any objective evidence the Bible is the WOG?
Yes! and all of us need to know these.
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The external evidence says the Bible is a historical book.
This just means that evidence outside of the Bible shows the reliability of the Bible.
The number of manuscript copies and the short length of time between the original manuscripts and our first copies of the New Testament.
For the New Testament the evidence is overwhelming.
There are 5,366 manuscripts to compare and draw information from, and some of these date from the second or third centuries.
To put that in perspective, there are only 643 copies of Homer's Iliad, and that is the most famous book of ancient Greece!
No one doubts the existence ofJulius Caesar's Gallic Wars, but we only have 10 copies of it and the earliest of those was made 1,000 years after it was written.
To have such an abundance of copies of the New Testament from dates within 70 years after their writing is amazing.
Norman Geisler
Someone asked, why didn’t God just let us have the original?
I think we would have worshiped it if we had it.
BTW the Bible was originally written in Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic.
Many people think that the Bible was passed from language to language, but that’s not true.
Each time the Bible is translated into a new language, the translators go back to the original languages.
The Extreme Care with which the Scriptures were copied.
The Jewish Scribes followed a strict procedure to ensure accuracy.
Here are a few of the rules.
Each scroll must contain a specified number of columns, all equal throughout the entire book.
The length of each column must not be less than forty-eight lines or more than sixty lines.
Each column's breadth must be exactly thirty letters.
The copyist must use a specially prepared black ink.
The copyist must not copy from memory
The space between every consonant must be the size of a thread.
The copyist must sit in full Jewish dress.
The copyist must use a fresh quill to pen the sacred name of God.
(The copyists held the Scriptures and the name of God in such reverence that they would even refuse to acknowledge the pres­ence of a king while writing the name they held so holy.)
Later they added these requirements.
They could copy only letter by letter, not word by word.
They counted the number of times each letter of the alphabet occurred in each book, and if it came out wrong, they threw the scroll away.
They knew the middle letter of the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Old Testament) and the middle letter of the entire Old Testament.
After copying a scroll, they counted fonNard and backward from this middle letter.
If the number of letters did not match what they knew to be correct, they destroyed the scroll and started over.
Confirmation of places and dates by Archaeology.
These show the reliability of the Bible.
The dead sea srolls are one of the mist famous discoveries.
What's so significant about them?
Every one of the Old Testament books is found in these scrolls.
Before their discovery, the earliest manuscripts we had of some of the Old Testament books were from 900 A.o.-almost a thousand years later than when these scrolls were made.
Amazingly, when the Dead Sea Scrolls were compared with the later manuscripts, practically no differences were found.
The bibles historical accuracy has been questioned repeatedly, but Archeology has proven the Bible to be right and the critics wrong over and over again.
IE: Critics insisted that the story of Abram’s rescue of Lot was not accurate because the names of the kings was not recorded in secular writings.
They said it was impossible for the king of Babylon to be serving the King of Elam was not correct.
This has now been proven by Archeology.
The Bible was true.
IE: For decades it was said that the Old Testament writers invented the Hittite tribe, since their existence could not be independently confirmed.
However, in 191 ·1-12 Professor Hugo Winchkler of Berlin discovered some ten thousand clay tablets at Bogazkoy, the site of the Hittite capital.
The existence of the Hittite empire is now extensively proven and documented.
The existence of Solomon's reign and his thousands of horses was at one time questioned.
But in Meggido, which was one of five chariot cities, excavations have revealed the ruins of thousands of stalls for his horses and chariots.
Discovery after discovery has established the accuracy of the details, and has brought increased recognition to the value of the Bible as a source of history.
William Albright
2. The internal evidence says the Bible is a unique book.
This is information you see inside the Bible.
If you never knew anything about the extra writings or archeology, you could still prove the reliability fo the Bible using the Bible.
The majority of the Bible is from eyewitness accounts.
Eye witnesses are powerful and in our legal system give the prosecution or the defense a victory.
One piece of evidence histrians look for in assessing the reliability of any document is the number of generations that passed between when a story happened and it was written down.
Most of the Biblical stories were written in the same generation.
The bible is filled with eyewitness accounts.
Moses was there when the red sea split.
Joshua saw with his own eyes the wall of Jericho fall.
The disciples saw Jesus miracles.
The amazing agreement and consistency throughout the Bible.
The bible was written over a period of 1500 years in various places stretching all the way from Babylon to Rome.
The human authors included over 40 persons from various stations of life: kings, peasants, poets, herdsmen, fishermen, scientists, farmers, priests, pastors, tent­makers and governors.
It was written in a wilderness, a dungeon, inside palaces and prisons, on lonely islands and in military battles.
Yet it speaks with agreement and reliability on hundreds of controversial sub­jects.
Yet it tells one story from beginning to end, God's salvation of man through Jesus Christ.
NO PERSON could have possibly conceived of or written such a work!
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