How We Got The Bible Palm Beach Lakes church of Christ

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How We Got The BiblePalm Beach Lakes church of
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The Bible

• The Bible is distinctive because it claims
  to be Gods
• word given to man kind.
• II Timothy 316
• All scripture is given by inspiration of God,
  and is
• profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for
  correction, for
• instruction in righteousness.

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The Bible

• A. Originally written in two languages.
• Hebrew and Greek.
• 40 different men.
• Over 1600 years.
• Since 1947, over 9 billion copies have been
  distributed.
• The Bible has been translated into 800 different
• languages.

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Writing the Bible

• The Bible was slowly written.
• Ancient writers used different materials.
• Stone, clay, wood, animal skins, and later
  papyrus.
• The books of the Bible were written on scrolls.
• Some scrolls were 30 feet long.
• The N.T. was written on Vellum.

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Writing the Bible

• The Lord spoke directly to people in the
• Patriarchal Age.
• God spoke to Adam, Noah, Abraham, and Joseph.
• Moses authored the first five books of the
  O.T.
• around 1500 B.C.

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The Bible vs. Ancient Manuscripts

• We have over 5, 000 manuscripts of the N.T.
• Pliny the Younger 7
• Caesar 10
• Plato 7
• Aristotle 37
• Euripedes 18

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Time Marches On

• The Old Testament was assembled around 400 B.C
• The New Testament around 96 A.D.
• N.T. books were read in assemblies. I Thess.
  527,
• Col. 416
• In the 4th century a Roman, Jerome, wrote
  the
• Latin Vulgate. (the Bible in Latin).

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Time Marches On

• 1. In the 1380s John Wycliffe produced the first
• known English translation of Bible
  manuscripts.
• 2. Johann Gutenberg invented the printing press
  in the
• 1450s.
• 3. In 1496 John Colet translated the Greek N.T
  into
• English.
• 4. William Tyndale has the distinction of
  producing the
• first English Bible.
• 5. In 1611 the King James Bible was finished.
• .

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" Modern Translations"

• 1833 Noah Webster Bible
• 1846 Illuminated Bible
• 1885 English Revised Version
• 1901 American Standard Version
• 1971 New American Standard Version
• 1973 New International Version
• 1982 New King James Version
• 2002 English Standard Version

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The Dead Sea Scrolls

• Discovered in 1947.
• Probably put there by the Essenes. 70 A.D.
• Fragments of all most every O.T. book was found.
• Two texts of Isaiah. One was as complete as
  missing
• only a few words. The other is missing
  chapters 41-59.
• Most scrolls are in Amman, Jordan.

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Canon

• 1. The word Canon comes from a Greek word
• meaning measuring rod.
• 2. Canonizing is recognizing and collecting
  those
• writings that are inspired by God.
• 3. The scriptures were not divinely inspired
  because
• they were Canonized. They were inspired
  by God
• when they were written.

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The Apocrypha

• 1. Means hidden or secret.
• 2. Not really accepted by the Catholic Church
  until
• the 16th century.
• Never accepted or talked of by Jesus or His
  apostles.
• Never accepted by ancient Jewish writers that
  wrote
• about Christ and Christianity.
• Contains historical and geographical errors.
• Events are out of chronological order.