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Acts 17:3
A Series On Evidences
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Acts 17:3 Lesson
5The Bible’s Reliability
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The Bible’s Continuity Re: the credibility of the Bible, one must
consider its continuous “flow of thought” How continual is it throughout? Compare to other written works written by
only 1 author
The Bible isn’t like any other book!
The Reliability Of The Bible – Part B
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The Bible’s Characteristics Namely, we’ll focus on 3…
Inspiration Infallibility Inerrancy
Characteristics that stand and fall together
The Reliability Of The Bible – Part B
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The Bible’s Unique Doctrine If the Bible is inspired, we can rely on it for
all matters of which it speaks If the Bible is truth, it won’t be wrong If the Bible is from God, it is our only
source for faith & authority
The Reliability Of The Bible – Part B
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The Bible’s Unique Doctrine If the Bible is inspired, it is relevant to all
areas of man’s life Heb 4:12 It is not an ancient “dead relic” of an
unenlightened past It is the living testimony of a powerful
God who has a future planned for man
The Reliability Of The Bible – Part B
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The Bible’s Unique Doctrine The Bible’s grand theme…the redemption
of man from his sin Rom 3:23 God’s eternal purpose to redeem man is
taught from cover to cover Gen 3 Rev 22 What the Bible teaches about salvation
is clearly “unique”
The Reliability Of The Bible – Part B
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The Bible’s Unique Doctrine The Bible’s unique teaching re: salvation
Sin is always revealed to be rebellion against God Jer 10:23 1 Jn 3:4
Salvation is always moral…never forced or coerced Mt 11:28-29 Josh 24:15
Man must repent…God will forgive
The Reliability Of The Bible – Part B
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The Bible’s Unique Doctrine The Bible’s unique teaching re: salvation
God has always required obedient faith From beginning to end, there is an altar, a
sacrifice, and a priest Man’s redemption always dependent
upon a sacrifice acceptable to God
The Reliability Of The Bible – Part B
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The Bible’s Unique Doctrine What other book could be so unique to
point out man’s failures and at the same time point the way to his salvation?
The Bible has not been shown to be erroneous…it stands just like it said it would 1 Pet 1:22-25
The Reliability Of The Bible – Part B
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The Bible’s Surety Can we be sure our modern-day Bible is
right, real, and true? Just how reliable is our copy of the Bible? This is the subject of “Textual Criticism”
(field of study re: autographs, manuscripts, & versions)
The Reliability Of The Bible – Part BOriginal documents written by Bible writers
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The Bible’s Surety Can we be sure our modern-day Bible is
right, real, and true? Just how reliable is our copy of the Bible? This is the subject of “Textual Criticism”
(field of study re: autographs, manuscripts, & versions)
The Reliability Of The Bible – Part BCopies of original documents written in same language as the original
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The Bible’s Surety Can we be sure our modern-day Bible is
right, real, and true? Just how reliable is our copy of the Bible? This is the subject of “Textual Criticism”
(field of study re: autographs, manuscripts, & versions)
The Reliability Of The Bible – Part BTranslations of original documents into other languages
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The Bible’s Surety An admission we must make…Biblical
autographs no longer exist An argument made against relying on the
Bible What about other written works?
(E.g. Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet)
The Reliability Of The Bible – Part B
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The Bible’s Surety A simplistic illustration of the process
known as “Textual Criticism” can help us have confidence in our modern-day Bible
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Jack Fred
Bill
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How “reliable” is his copy?
Fred
Bill
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The Bible’s Surety Thousands of manuscripts, early versions
of the Scripture are available for the type of comparative analysis just illustrated Re: the N.T. alone, 5,000+ manuscripts &
10,000+ documents of versions Abundant proof of the Bible’s surety!
The Reliability Of The Bible – Part B
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The Bible’s Surety In addition to this internal documentation,
there are historical secular writings Men who lived at the same time of the
apostles or shortly thereafter…they quote cite N.T. passages (Clement of Rome,
Justin Martyr, Irenaeus)
The Reliability Of The Bible – Part B
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The Bible’s Surety The Scripture declares God’s word will
never pass away Mt 24:35 1 Pet 1:22-25 God has had a hand in bringing His word
down through the ages in such a condition that the Bible we have today can be trusted as “reliable”
The Reliability Of The Bible – Part B
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Conclusion The Bible continues to be the world’s
greatest enduring book Most recent parts are 2,000 years old Oldest parts are at least 3,500 Untold thousands of other books have
been lost due to neglect, indifference
The Reliability Of The Bible – Part B
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Conclusion If the Bible is not God’s word, a believer’s
faith is a hoax If the Bible is God’s word, billions of souls
will be lost forever in hell because they rejected the Bible’s main character… Jesus Christ
The Reliability Of The Bible – Part B
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Conclusion If the Bible is not true, there is no absolute
right & wrong…we’ve been left just to grope around in frustrating darkness
If the Bible is true… Rom 3:4 The Bible = the standard Jas 1:21 You can rely on the Bible !!
The Reliability Of The Bible – Part B
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