The Authentic Bible: Truth

1+1= 12.863

(BUT ONLY ON A SUNNY DAY)

Friedrich Schleiermacher

Father of Liberalism

Pantheist

He loathed orthodox, historic Christianity.

1799 wrote On Religion : denied that the Bible was God’s Word.

Charles Darwin

The Origin of the Species

God is not the Creator.

There is No Need for God.

Joseph Fletcher

Situation Ethics: The New Morality

Humans are more important than rules.

Agape love motivates every decision.

3 Types of Old Testament Law

Ceremonial: Linked to Jewish Temple

Hygienic: protection from disease(pork)

Moral: God’s standards for behavior

Moral Inconsistency

If some laws are not valid,

then No law is valid

& therefore- All God’s laws are invalid.

Absolute laws exist while time, manner, &

place exceptions exist.

Bible outnumbers ancient manuscripts

Plato: only 7 known manuscripts!

Historians Thucydides/Herodotus: only 8!

Roman Historian Livey : just 10 Copies

(same number as Caesar's Gallic Wars)

Homer’s Iliad preserved in 643 pieces.

Masoretic Texts & Dead Sea

Scrolls

Masoretic Text preserved by Jewish Scribes 1,300 year gap

Dead Sea Scrolls (1947 discovery) dated 150 B.C. to A.D. 70

Not a single word/punctuation mark changed.

NT preserved/corroborated: 24,000 manuscripts.

Josh McDowell

The Bible claims to be the Word of God-…. Like other books that

make similar claims.

The difference is- the Scriptures

contain INDISPUTABLE EVIDENCE

of being the Word of God.

Winfried Corduan: Philosophy & Religion Professor

“ No other ancient documentation equals the NT when it comes to the preservation of manuscripts, both in terms of numbers & closeness in time to the originalautographs.”

Questioning the Bible’s credibility as an ancient manuscript requires tossing out the validity of every other manuscript found. P. 84

Alex McFarland

OT strength is its QUALITY. NT strength is QUANTITY.

Criticisms

Scientology & Islam facts distort Jesus

The Da Vinci Code: NT written centuries after Christ w/ revisions.

Myth was perpetuated that power hungry men fought over content with ”winners” earning the right to do final edits.

More than 24,000 copies of NT manuscripts have been found…..and ALL of these have matched one another word for word, as was the case with the OT.

Louis CasselsUPI Religion Writer

“The ‘debunk Jesus’ books accept as

much of the Gospels as they find

convenient—like ‘God is love’—then

ignore or repudiateother parts which contradicts their

notions.”

7 Indisputable Facts about

the Bible

Fulfilled Prophecies

Unique structure

Universal influence

Indestructability

Historical Accuracy

Life-changing Effect

Scientific Accuracy

Prophecy: Peter Stoner-Professor of Math & Astronomy

More than 300 prophecies fulfilled by Christ’s Coming

8 of 48 examined (Messiah’s birth in Bethlehem, His

persecution, the attempts on His life, etc.)

Chance that any 1 man could fulfill

all 8 prophecies is 1 in10 (to the 17th).

Probability that any one man could

fulfill all 48 is 1 in 10 (to the 157th).

Biblical Archaeology

Dr. Nelson Glueck: Isaeli archeologicalist

“ No archeological discovery has

ever controverted a biblical

reference. Scores of archeological

findings have been made which

confirm in clear outline or in exact

detail historical statements in the

Bible.”

Archaeological Findings

Simeon’s Epitaph Absalom’s Tomb Emmaus

Jericho Nineveh Gennesaret

Ur with Ziggurats Babylon Jericho

Meggido Tomb of joseph Jerusalem

King Jehoiachin Bethany Nain

Sanballat & Tobiah Capernaum Nazareth

Bethlehem Bethesda Sychar

Caesarea Cana

Scientific Accuracy

Roundness of the Earth Isaiah 40:22

Almost infinite extent of the sidereal Universe Isaiah 55:9

Law of conservation of mass & energy II Peter 3:7

Hydrologic Cycle Ecclesiastes 1:7

Vast number of Stars Jeremiah 33:22

Law of increasing entropy Psalm 102:25-27

Paramount importance of blood in life processes Leviticus 17:11

Atmospheric Circulation Ecclesiastes 1:6

Gravitational Field Job 26:7

Indestructability

303 A.D. Emperor Diocletian ordered Bible DESTROYED.

323 A.D. Constantine offered a REWARD for the Bible.

More than 50 Bibles were found.

1199 Pope Innocent III ordered Bibles burned.

1920’s Stalin ordered the destruction of Bibles in the

USSR despite one of the most valuable OT manuscripts

being in the Leningrad Library. (It was not destroyed)

New Yorker Magazine

December 18, 2006

The Bible best selling book of all time. It is also

the best selling book every year. (over 1/2

billion dollars).

91 % of homes have at least 1 Bible

averaging 4 Bibles.

Publishers sell 25 million to people that

already have the book: That is twice as many

as the most recent Harry Potter Book.

Unique Structure

66 books

40+ Authors

2,000 years

Perfect Unity &

Consistency

Universal Influence

Foundational document of Western Civilization.

World’s greatest legal documents are inspired by & quote it. Declaration of Independence

117 world’s most famous paintings depict Bible figures.

Bach, Brahms, Mozart, Haydn, Mendelssohn, & Handel

reflect musical creativity stirred by Biblical truth.

Life-Changing Effect

The Mirror

Summary

Internally Consistent

Externally Validated

Miraculously Preserved

Comprehensively Accurate

Christologically Confirmed