Week 9 - The Bible Part 2

A cHRISTIAN

today’s worldWITNESS in

Tactics + sTRATEGIES

Relativism

The Bible

Pluralism

Islam

Sexual Revolution

Media

Training and Equipping Believers to Live Out a Confident Faith

A cHRISTIAN

today’s worldWITNESS in

Tactics + Strategies

Pluralism

Islam

Sexual Revolution

Media

Training and Equipping Believers to Live Out a Confident Faith

The bIble

Relativism

The Challenge of Authority - Part 2:

The Bible

“The Bible is just a book written by men”

The Challenge of Authority - Part 2:

The Bible

“The Bible has no authority over me”

There is only one way the bible has any

authority…

If it comes from God

Main qUESTION:

iS THE bIBLE A BOOK

FROM MENABOUT GOD?

oR…

iS THE bIBLE A BOOK

FROM gODgiven to Men?

AuthoritativeLiterature

From men:

SubjectiveFrom God:

Objective

TruthPreference

wHAT

Good REASONSDO we have to think

The Biblecomes from God?

The Bible comes from God

“All Scripture is inspired by God”

6 Reasons

Reason #1:March

The Challenge of Authority

Part 2

The Bible

The Bible has amazing unity despite its diverse

origins

Unity

Ring Finger“Unity”

Reason #2:March


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The Bible has genuine fulfilled prophecy that is

precise, detailed, and accurate.

Prophecy

Pinkie“Prophecy”

Reason #3:March


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The Bible has proven to be historically accurate, even

though it records supernatural events

History

Index“Index to History”

Reason #4:March


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The Bible has survived through time and lots of

persecution

fIGHTER

Fist“Fighter”

Reason #5:March


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The Bible has answers to the big questions of life that all

people ask.

biG quESTIONS

Biggest Finger“Big Questions”

Reason #6:March


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The Bible has changed the lives and has done so for

thousands of years

cHANGED lIVES

Thumb“Changed Lives”


Ring“Unity”


Index Finger

“Index to History”

Thumb

“Changed Lives”

Fist “Fighter”

It is now time to

Practice1) Explain what each point means

2) Explain why it matters


Ring“Unity”


Index Finger

“Index to History”

Thumb

“Changed Lives”

Fist “Fighter”

1.What it means

2. Why it matters

toNIGHT

How do we know

The bIBLEwE HAVE TODAY

IS THE SAMEAS THE ORIGINAL?

Columbo Questions

“The Bible has been

Changed”

What Columbo questions could we ask here?


Changed”

“What parts, specifically, have been changed?”


Changed”

“Where did you study textual criticism?”


Changed”

“How many times has the Bible been retranslated”


Changed”

“Which parts have been changed the most?”


Changed”“Can you explain to me how you

understand the process of how the Bible was handed down?”


Changed”

“Can I share some evidence that shows the Bible hasn’t been changed?”

Where we start

The pROBLEMMarch


Part 2

The Bible

No originals of ANY classic writer exist.

“Did you that know no original manuscripts of any classic writer

exists, not even Shakespeare?”

The RealityMarch


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All ancient documents were handwritten before the

printing press

“You realize that all ancient documents were hand-written, right?”

Why do we start

this way?

Treats the Bible as history, not as fantasy

Why do we start

this way?

The real power is in the comparison to other texts that nobody doubts

Lack of originals

manuscripts of the bible textsno original

Fact:

We have

Potion of

Eternal Youth

and Beauty

10 years later

Potion of

Eternal Youth

and Beauty

6 Copies (3nd Generation)

Can she rECONSTRUCT THE ORIGINAL?

Where do you start?

1. Compare the copies

Comparing the Copies

What if all 6 copies were exactly the same?

Could you confidently reconstruct the original?


5 were exactly the some, but one had the ingredients

in a different order?



What if 3 of the 6 had spelling errors (but all the same ingredients)?



What if one of the copies had 2 ingredients

the others did not?



What if we had 10 copies instead of 6?


2. ASK quESTIONS


Is it more likely that one person added an

ingredient or 5 took one (the same one) out?


Do spelling errors or varying order of

ingredients make them corrupt?

of copieslots and lots and lots

Fact:

We have

Lots

Criteria for evaluation

2 things that Matter

1. hOW MANY COPIES DO WE HAVE?

2. hOW CLOSE TO THE ORIGINALS ARE THEY?

MaterialsMarch


Part 2

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Plant

sheep or goat skins

calf skins

Papyrus

Parchment

Vellum

MaterialsMarch


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do we have?copies

Our 2 Main Questions:

How Many

were they written to the events they record?

closelyHow

Manuscripts Time Gap

“Natural History”Author:

eARLIEST Copy:

Copies:

Written:

Gap:

Pliny Secundus

AD 61-113

AD 850

750 years

7

“History of rOME”Author:

eARLIEST Copy:

Partial Copies:

Written:

Gap:

Livy

AD 59-17Partial: 4th cen.

1

Complete: 10th cen.

Partial: 400 yrs. Complete: 1000 yrs.

Complete:19

“Writings of Plato”Author:

eARLIEST Copy:

Copies:

Written:

Gap:

Plato

400 BC

AD 900

71300 yrs.

“Writings of demosthenes”Author:

eARLIEST Copy:

Copies:

Written:

Gap:

Demosthenes

300 BC

AD 1000

2001400 yrs.

“iLIAD”Author:

eARLIEST Copy:

Copies:

Written:

Gap:

Homer

800 BC

400 BC

643400 yrs.

“New Testament”Author:

eARLIEST Copy:

Copies:

Written:

Gap:

Multiple

50-100 BC 114 AD (Fragments)

536650-225 yrs.

200 AD (Whole Books)250 AD (Most of NT)

350 AD (Complete NT)

Author Book eARLIEST C. CopiesWritten Gap

Pliny Natural History

AD 61-113 AD 850 750

Years. 7

Livy History of Rome

AD 59-17

450 yrs 1000 yrs

Partial: 4th Cen.Most: 10th Cen.

Partial: 1Whole: 19

Plato Writings 400 BC AD 900 1300 Years. 7

Author Book eARLIEST C. CopiesWritten Gap

Demos. Writings 300 BC AD 1000 1400 Years. 200

Homer Iliad 800 BC 400 yrs

Mult. New Testament

50-100 AD AD 114 50 yrs 5366

400 BC 643

“New Testament”Greek Copies 5366Latin Copies 10,304other Copies 9300

Total: 24,970

"on the basis of manuscript tradition alone, the works that made up the

Christians' New Testament were the most frequently copied and widely

circulated books of antiquity."

- F.E. Peters

In no other case is the interval of time between the composition of the book

and the date of the earliest extant manuscripts so short as in that of the

New Testament.

- Sir Fredric Kenyon, Director, British Museum

“In the variety and fullness of the evidence on which it rests the text of the New Testment stands absolutely and unapproachably alone among

ancient prose writings."

- f.j.a. hORT

Changed?But, Have they

Have they Changed?

N.t.tHE

ILIADhoMER’S

6435366 15,60020,000Copies CopiesLines (Total) Lines (Total)

Lines in Doubt: 40 Lines in Doubt: 764.05%Percentage of Total: 5%Percentage of Total:

These variants have so little support and are of so little importance that their

adoption or rejection would cause no appreciable difference in the sense of the

passages where they occur."

- bb Warfield

“Only about one-eighth of all the variants had any weight, as most of them

are merely mechanical matters such as spelling or style.

- bb Warfield

Of the whole, then, only about one-sixtieth rise above 'trivialities,' or can in

any sense be called 'substantial variations.'

- bb Warfield

Mathematically this would compute to a text that is 98.33 percent pure."

- bb Warfield

It cannot be too strongly asserted that in substance the text of the Bible is certain: Especially is this the case with the New

Testament.

- Gleason Archer

The system of spiritual truth contained in the standard Hebrew text of the Old Testament is not in the slightest altered

or compromised

- Gleason Archer

by any of the variant readings found in the Hebrew manuscripts of earlier date

found in the Dead Sea caves or anywhere else.

- Gleason Archer

"A careful study of the variants (different readings) of the various earliest

manuscripts reveals that none of them affects a single doctrine of Scripture.

- Gleason Archer

lADIESaND

gENTLEMEN

ChangedThe bIBLE HAS NOT BEEN

bELIEVE ITwE CAN CONFIDENTLY

AS THE woRD OF gOD

Next Week:

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bREAK!

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