Unlock the Bible - Fact or Fiction (Part 3)

1. The Bible is historically accurate

TACITUS ANNALS – AD 64Consequently, to get rid of the report, Nero fastened the guilt and

inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace. Christus, from

whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judaea, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome, where all things hideous and shameful from

every part of the world find their centre and become popular. Accordingly, an arrest was first made of all who pleaded guilty; then, upon their information, an immense multitude was convicted, not so

much of the crime of firing the city, as of hatred against mankind. Mockery of every sort was added to their deaths.

Covered with the skins of beasts, they were torn by dogs and perished, or were nailed to crosses, or were doomed to the flames

and burnt, to serve as a nightly illumination, when daylight had expired. Nero offered his gardens for the spectacle, and was

exhibiting a show in the circus, while he mingled with the people in the dress of a charioteer or stood aloft on a car. Hence, even for

criminals who deserved extreme and exemplary punishment, there arose a feeling of compassion; for it was not, as it seemed, for the

public good, but to glut one man's cruelty, that they were being destroyed.

(Tactitus, Annals, Book 15,44)

1. The Bible is historically accuratea. How exact is the text?

1. The Bible is historically accurateb. Dead Sea Scrolls

1. The Bible is historically accuratec. Read the Apocrypha

John 21:24-25 (NIV) 25 Jesus did many other things as well. If every one

of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books

that would be written.

1. The Bible is historically accurated. Archeology

Jesus’s tomb opened for the first time in centuriesWORLD NEWS - Sunday 30 October 2016

2. Science & Bible aren’t mutually exclusivea. The Earth is flat

Isaiah 40:22 (NIV) He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and

its people are like grasshoppers.

2. Science & Bible aren’t mutually exclusiveb. What holds up the earth?

2. Science & Bible aren’t mutually exclusiveb. What holds up the earth?

Job 26:7 (NIV) He spreads out the northern [skies] over empty

space; he suspends the earth over nothing.

2. Science & Bible aren’t mutually exclusivec. The Stars

2. Science & Bible aren’t mutually exclusivec. The Stars

Jeremiah 33:22 (NIV) …as countless as the stars of the sky and as measureless as the sand on the seashore.

Jeremiah 33:22 (AMP) As the host of [the stars of] the heavens cannot be

numbered nor the sand of the sea be measured

2. Science & Bible aren’t mutually exclusived. Medicine

Leviticus 17:11 (NIV) For the life of a creature is in the blood, …

2. Science & Bible aren’t mutually exclusivee. Diseases

2. Science & Bible aren’t mutually exclusivee. Diseases

Leviticus 13:4 (NIV) …put the infected person in isolation for seven days.

‘It’s Okay to Never Wash Your Coffee Mug’November 3, 2016 By Cari Romm

Proverbs 30:5 (NIV) Every word of God is flawless; ….

“Science is simply thinking God’s thoughts after him.”

Johannes Kepler Famous German mathematician & astronomer

Died 1630

3. 300 +++ prophecies in the OT point to Jesus – all fulfilled in the NT.

Isaiah 9:6-7 (NIV) For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting

Father, Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end. He will

reign on David's throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and

righteousness from that time on and forever. The zeal of the LORD Almighty will accomplish this.

Jeremiah 31:31-34 (NIV) "The time is coming," declares the LORD, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of

Judah. 32 It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of

Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them," declares the LORD. 33 "This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time," declares the LORD. "I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will

be their God, and they will be my people. 34 No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,'

because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest," declares the LORD. "For I will forgive their wickedness

and will remember their sins no more."

2 Peter 1:21 (NIV) For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along

by the Holy Spirit.

Matthew 26:56 (NIV) ”But this has all taken place that the writings of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples

deserted him and fled.

4. ONE consistent theme through the whole Bible

“The difference here is that the Bible is written over 1600 years, by 40 different authors on 3 different

continents, in 3 different languages, and they didn’t know about each other.”

Luke 24:27 (NIV) And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he

explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.

John 5:39 (NIV) You diligently study the Scriptures because you

think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me,

5. Jesus trusted the Bible

Matthew 5:18 (NIV) I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen,

will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.

Luke 11:28 (NIV) He replied, "Blessed rather are those who hear the

word of God and obey it."

Inconsistencies between OT & NT?

Jesus abolished the sacrificial system of the OT but upheld the moral law!

KEYJesus changed how we worship; not how we live

5. Jesus trusted the Biblea. Why different versions?

LOVE: Agape | Storge | Eros | Philia

WORD: Rhema | Logos

“If you believe in the Bible what you like, and you don’t believe what you don’t like, it’s not the Bible

you trust, but yourself.”(Augustine)

6. The Bible has survived all attacks

Matthew 24:35 (NIV) “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will

never pass away.”

7. The Bible has changed my life and millions of others

John 8:31-32 (NIV) To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, "If

you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. 32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will

set you free.“

What will be the final authority for your life?

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