The%20Bible,%20From%20God%20or%20Man?

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• The Bible, From God or Man?
• John Oakes
• Churgdu Church of Christ Campus Ministry
• 3/1/2012

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A Typical Attitude We Hear
Delos B. McKown Christianity is
scientifically unsupported and probably
insupportable, philosophically suspect at best
and disreputable at worst, and historically
fraudulent. ???????????,??????????,?????????????
????
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Proposition 1 ???

• The Bible is scientifically unsupported and
  probably insupportible
  ???????????

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Papyrus Ebers???????
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• The Ebers Papyrus ???????
• To prevent hair from turning gray, anoint it
  with the blood of a calf which has been boiled in
  oil or with the fat of a rattlesnake.
• ???????,??????? ??,?????????????????????
• A mixture of six fats, namely those of the
  horse, the hippopotamus, the crocodile, the cat,
  the snake and the ibex.... to prevent hair loss.
• ?????????????? ???????? ..???????

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Drugs of Choice included ??????

• Lizards blood ???
• Swines teeth ??
• Putrid meat ????
• Moisture from Pigs ears ?????
• Excreta from animals including human beings,
  donkeys, antelope, dogs, cats and flies
  ??????????? ??? ???????

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I will not bring on you any of these
diseases... Exodus 1526 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
???? 1526 The pig... is
unclean for you...those that walk on their
paws...the weasel, the rat...are unclean for
you. Leviticus 11 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
??? 11
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The sting of a hornet is healed by the
house-fly, crushed and applied to the wound.

???????,????????????? The gnat, feeble
creature, taking in food but never secreting it
is a specific against the poison of the viper.
??,?????,???????????????
?? An ancient Hebrew medical manuscript.
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Whoever touches the dead body of anyone will be
unclean for seven days. He must purify himself
with the water on the third and seventh
day...take some hyssop, dip it in the water and
sprinkle the tent and furnishings and the people
who were there. Numbers 19 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
??? 19
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Semelweiss
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Vienna ???, 1847

• In maternity wards one out of every six women
  dies.
  ?????,????????????
• Obstetricians ascribe deaths to constipation,
  fear and poisonous air.
  ??????????? ?????????

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Death Rate falls from 18 to 1 ????18??1
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Thymol (Oil of Hyssop)????
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For the generations to come, every male among
you who is eight days old must be
circumcised... Genesis 1712 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
???1712 Vitamin K ???K Prothrombrin a
clotting protein. ??????????????
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Clotting Protein Peaks on Day Eight ??????????????
?
Available Prothrombin
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Abrahams Experiment ???????
Day Circumcised ?????? Number of Hebrew Boys ???????? Number of Deaths ????
1 823 4
3 759 6
5 693 8
7 855 3
9 770 2
11 698 4
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Proposition 1 ???

• The Bible is scientifically unsupported and
  probably insupportable
  ???????????
• Genesis 1, Hebrews 113 ??? 1, ????113
• Response Oh really ?? ???

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Proposition 2 ???

• Christianity is philosophically suspect at best
  ?????????????
• Delos McKown

Socrates
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Naturalism/Scientism/Materialism???? /?????? /
????

• The belief that the only reliable or valid
  instrument to deciding the truth or even the
  value of any proposition is the scientific
  method. ????????????????????
  ????
• No basis for ethics or morality, no supernatural,
  no God, no truth (except that found by science),
  no consciousness, no I. Justice is a figment of
  our imagination.
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  (????????),????,?? ??, ????????????

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Materialism????

• We exist as material beings in a material world,
  all of whose phenomena are the consequences of
  material relations among material entities. In a
  word, the public needs to accept materialism,
  which means that they must put God in the trash
  can of history where such myths belong.
  
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  ???,??????????????????????
• Richard Lewontin
• Retrospective essay on Carl Sagan in the
  January 9, 1997 New York Review of Books,

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Postmodernism The Loss of Truth?????????

• Truth, if such a thing exists, is the property of
  culture. There is no absolute truth. All truth
  is relative. It is created by societies.
  There is no ultimate moral authority or moral
  absolute. ??,??????,??????????????,?????????,?????
  ????????????,???????

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A Response to Naturalism/Materialism/Scientism
?????? /?????? / ????

• It is a faith/religious belief based on circular
  reasoning. ?????????????
• It cannot answer the questions human beings care
  about. ?????????????
• It is patently and demonstrably false.
  ????????????
• Does accepting naturalism make us better?
  ?????????????

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Questions Science Can Answer????????

• When? ???
• What? ???
• Where? ????
• How many? ????
• By what means? ???????

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Questions Science Cannot Answer(That
Christianity Does Answer)????????? (????????)

• Why am I here? ???????
• Is that the right thing to do? ????????
• How valuable am I? ????????
• Does God exist? Does God act (theism)?
  ??????????(???)?
• Will that God respond if I pray?
  ??????????
• Do supernatural events (miracles) happen?
  ?????(??)?????
• Why is there evil and suffering in the world?
  ???????????

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Materialism is Patently False ?????????

• If Materialism/Naturalism is right then
  ?????? / ???????
• I do not exist. Consciousness is just random
  moving around of chemicals.
  ?????,?????????????????
• No soul, no spirit, no non-physical reality.
  ???,???,????????
• Life has no value. Human beings have no value.
  What is value?
  
  ?????????????????,???????
• Love is chemicals moving around (vs. God is
  love) ???????????? (?????)

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Naturalism is Patently False Because.
?????????,??.

• The universe was created. ???????
• Life was created. ???????
• The Anthropic Principle. The universe is
  ridiculously well fine-tuned for us to exist.
  ????
  ?????????????????
• No one in their right mind can deny the existence
  of right and wrong
  ?????????????????????
  
• The Bible is inspired by God. ????????

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Postmodernism Cultural Relativism
?????????

• Truth It is true for you, but it is not true
  for me. ?????????,????????
• Meaning, if it exists, lies in a community of
  believers. ??,?????,??????????
• No rational way to discover which is the best
  world view. ???????????????????

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Problems With Postmodernism????????

• Self-refuting. ????
• If nothing is true, then postmodernism is not
  true. ??????????,????????????
• Its authors insist on authorial privilege.
  ???????????????
• I do not care what they say, some things are just
  true. ????????????,???????
• Either God is real or he is not. Even if I
  cannot prove it one way or another. ?????????,
  ???????????

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The Christian World View Is True ???????????

• The Universe is Real ?????
• The creation is good.?????
• Evil exists.????
• Despite what Naturalists say, there is a
  spiritual reality. For example, I exist.
  Consciousness is not simply an epiphenomenon.
  ??????????,?????????????? ???,???????????
• Science and the Christian world view do not
  contradict. ???????????????

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Christianity Offers Solutions to the Big Problems
of Human Beings ?????????????

• The Problem of Evil ?????
• The Problem of Suffering ?????
• The Problem of Death ?????

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The Christian World View Has Given Us
???????????

• Science ??
• Abolition of Slavery (Wilberforce) ?????? (????)
• Civil Rights ??
• Womens Rights ??
• Christian groups do a majority of all benevolent
  work in the world (James 127, Micah 68)
  ?????????????????? (???127, ???68)

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Two Good Questions ?????

• Does evil exist? ??????
• If God is all-loving and all-powerful and
  all-good, then why is there evil?
  ?????????,???????

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The answer Gods love. ?????Free Will God
Gives Us a Choice??????????Why? Because he
loves us.??????????The result We rebelled and
brought evil into the world. Is this Gods
fault? What is the alternative?
???????????????,???????????????

• Deuteronomy 3015-20 ??? 3015-20

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Free Will, An Illustration The Prodigal
Son????,??????
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Proposition 3 ???

• Christianity is historically fraudulent
  ????????????

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Ruins of Hattusha, capital of the Hittites
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The Lion Gate in Hattusha
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The Five City League, including Sodom and Gomorrah
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The Tel Dan Inscription 820 BC 2 Kings
828-29 ???? 828-29 I Hazael killed Joram, son
of Omri and I defeated Ahaziah of the House of
David ????????????,???????????
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Pilate Inscription Caesarea AD 30
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Ziggurat in Ur
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Proposition 4 ???

• The Bible is full of contradictions.
  ?????????
• Genesis 717 vs Genesis 83 ? 717 vs ? 83
• Genesis 3736 vs Genesis 391 ? 3736 vs ?
  391
• Mathew 275 vs Acts 118 ? 275 vs ? 118
• John 1917 vs Mark 1521-23 ? 1917 vs ?
  1521-23
• More serious Exodus 204-5 vs Ezek 1819-20
  ???? ?204-5 vs ? 1819-20

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Proposition 5 Jesus is Just a Myth
??? ??????Inspiration of the
BibleMessianic Prophecies Fulfilled
??????????????

• He said to them, This is what I told you while I
  was still with you Everything must be fulfilled
  that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the
  Prophets and the Psalms. Luke 2444
• ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
  ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
  ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ???? 2444

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• Isaiah 531-13 ? 531-13
• He was despised and rejected by men, a man of
  sorrows, familiar with suffering. (v. 3)
  
  ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
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• But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was
  crushed for our iniquities the punishment that
  brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds
  we are healed. (v. 5) (John 1931-37)? ? ? ? ? ?
  ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? .? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
  ? . ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
• He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not
  open his mouth he was led like a lamb to the
  slaughter and as a sheep before her shearers is
  silent, so he did not open his mouth. (v. 7)
  ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? . ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
  ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? .

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Micah 52 ??? 52 But you, Bethlehem Ephrathrah,
though you are small among the clans of Judah,
out of you will come for me one who will be ruler
over Israel, whose origins are from old, from
ancient times.
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Isaiah 91,6 ???? 91,6 In the past he humbled
the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but
in the future he will honor Galilee of the
Gentiles, by the way of the sea, along the
Jordan. For to us a child is born And he will
be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. ? ? ? ? ? ?
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Psalm 2216-18 ?? 2216-18 Dogs have surrounded
me a band of evil men have encircled me,
they have pierced my hands and my feet. I can
count all my bones (John 193-37) people
stare and gloat over me. They divide my garments
among them and cast lots for my clothing.
(John 1923,24) ? ? ? ? ? . ? ? ? ? ? . ? ? ? ?
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Zechariah 1112,13 ????? 1112, 13 I told them,
If you think it best, give me my pay but if
not, keep it. so they paid me thirty pieces of
silver. (Matthew 2614-16) ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
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(?2614-16)
And the Lord said to me, Throw it to the
potterthe handsome price at which they priced
me! So I took the thirty pieces of silver and
threw them into the house of the Lord, to the
potter. (Matthew 273-8) ??????????????????????
??????????????????????????? (?273-8)
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Daniel 924-26 ???? 924-26 Seventy sevens
are decreed for your people and your holy city to
finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to
atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting
righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and
to anoint the most holy. Know and understand
this From the issuing of the decree to restore
and rebuild Jerusalem, until the Anointed One,
the ruler comes, there will be seven sevens and
sixty two sevens ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
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? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Decree of Artaxerxes
(Ezra 712-26) 458 BC 458 BC - 490 years -32
(no zero BC)
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According to the Old Testament, the Messiah
must????,?????

• Be born in Bethlehem ??????
• Be raised in Galilee near Nazareth ??????????
• Be despised and rejected by men ???????
• Be meek and silent before his accusers
  ?????????????
• Be pierced ???
• Be crucified ?????
• Have his garments divided and gambled over
  ????????
• Be betrayed for 30 pieces of silver ????????
• Come to Jerusalem to make atonement for sin in
  about AD 33 ???33???????????
• And many more. ??.
• Was all this an accident, or did God plan all
  along for the Passion of the Christ for
  forgiveness of sins? What do you think?
  ????????????????,??????????????????????
• Is the Bible the Word of God or the word of men?
• ???????????????

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If The Bible is the Word of GodWe Need to Put it
Into Practice?????????,???????????

• Hebrews 111 Faith in what is not seen.
  ?111?????????
• John 1247-50 The Word will be our judge
  ?1247-50 ??????????
• James 122-25 Put it into practice
  ?122-25 ????
• 2 Tim 41-5 No sentimentality. Eternal life
  is at stake. ??41-5 ??????,???????

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