Is the Bible really true

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Is the Bible really true?

• How we can be sure

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What is the Bible?

• The worlds bestseller the most translated book
  ever
• In two main parts Old testament and New
  testament
• A library of 66 different books
• Written by about 40 different authors
• Over a period of about 1500 years
• One message !

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Gutenberg Bible, Mainz, 1453. The first printed
book.
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Dead Sea Scroll, the great Isaiah Scroll in
Hebrew, c. 100 B.C. The scroll is about 8m. long
and is the type given to Jesus in the synagogue
at Nazareth, Luke 4
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Papyrus P66 Greek manuscript of the Gospel of
John. Dated 200 A.D. but some place earlier
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P52 Earliest Papyrus Fragment of Johns gospel
dated 117 to 138 AD and found in Egypt
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What is the Bible about?

• How did we get here?
• What has gone wrong?
• What is Gods answer?

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What is the Bible about?

• It is not a textbook about science or history
  but wherever the bible touches on these areas it
  has been shown to be correct
• There is no scientific fact that is out of
  agreement with the Bible.
• G. Campbell Morgan

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• Clay cylinders (6 long) from Ur dating from the
  time of Nabonidus and mentions him and his son
  Belshazzar. Discovered in 1850 about three years
  after a German liberal commentator proposed that
  Belshazzar did not exist (i.e. Bible not true)

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What does the Bible teach about itself?

• Thus says the LORD used about 3600 times in
  the Old Testament
• In the New Testament
• All scripture is given by inspiration of God
  (2 Timothy 316)
• Your Word is truth (John 1717)

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How can we know it is true?

• Many prophecies fulfilled
• For example concerning Jesus Christ
• The place of his birth (Micah 52)
• His death by crucifixion (Psalm 22)
• His resurrection from the grave (Psalm 16)
• His worldwide Church (Matthew 24)

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Is todays Bible genuine?

• We have over 100 scrolls of Old Testament
  material nearly 25,000 copies of all or parts
  of the New Testament!
• By contrast we have
• 10 copies of Caesars Gallic War (58-50 BC)
• 10 copies of Tacitus histories (born c.52 AD)
• 643 copies of Homers Iliad (born c.850 BC)

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Is todays Bible genuine?

• It cannot be too strongly asserted that in
  substance the text of the Bible is certain
  especially this is the case with the New
  Testament This can be said of no other ancient
  book in the world.
• Sir Frederick Kenyon

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The Bible

• Is completely self consistent infallible
• Is accurate historically/scientifically inerrant
• Claims to be the Word of God inspired
• Has been fulfilled prophetically confirmed
• Kept the same throughout history preserved
• Contains 4 eyewitness accounts of the life, death
  and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ

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Entrance to a tomb of the type used in the first
century, and not later in the Jerusalem region.
The doorway is about 1 m. high, the stone blocks
it completely.
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John 2024-26 The doubting disciple

• But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus,
  was not with them when Jesus came.
• The other disciples therefore said to him We
  have seen the Lord. But he said to them, Unless
  I see in His hands the print of the nails, and
  put my finger into the print of the nails, and
  put my hand into His side, I will not believe.

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John 2027-29 The risen Lord

• And after eight days the disciples were again
  inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus came, the
  doors being shut, and stood in the midst and
  said, Peace to you!
• Then He said to Thomas, Reach your finger here
  and look at My hands and reach your hand here
  and put it into My side. Do not be unbelieving,
  but believing.
• And Thomas answered and said to Him, My Lord and
  my God!
• Jesus said to him, Thomas, because you have seen
  Me you have believed. Blessed are those who have
  not seen and yet have believed.

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Resurrection the greatest miracle

• To me the evidence is conclusive, and over and
  again in the High Court I have secured the
  verdict on evidence not nearly so compelling.
• Sir Edward Clarke
• I know pretty well what evidence is and I tell
  you, such evidence as that for the resurrection
  has never broken down yet.
• Lord Lyndhurst

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John 2030-31 The reason for the Gospel

• And truly Jesus did many other signs in the
  presence of His disciples, which are not written
  in this book
• But these are written that you may believe that
  Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that
  believing you may have life in His name.

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Why does it matter?

• All of us have sinned and fallen short of the
  glory of God we are not what we should be
• If Jesus Christ rose from the dead, then he was
  who he said he was
• In Him we see Gods answer to the problem of sin
  and death

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What should you do?

• Jesus said Repent and believe the gospel
• Repent be sorry for your sin and turn away from
  it
• Believe turn to Jesus Christ and commit your
  life to Him.