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Title: Why the Bible Matters


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Why the Bible Matters
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The Bible Claims to be Gods Word
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2 Timothy 316-17
  • 16All Scripture is given by inspiration of God,
    and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for
    correction, for instruction in righteousness,
    17that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly
    equipped for every good work.

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1 Thessalonians 213
  • For this reason we also thank God without
    ceasing, because when you received the word of
    God which you heard from us, you welcomed it not
    as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the
    word of God, which also effectively works in you
    who believe.

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  • If God really wrote a book dont you imagine that
    it would matter?

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Some Prevailing Attitudes
  • The Bible is loved and respected by many.
  • However, the Bible is often
  • Taken for granted
  • Ignored
  • Rejected
  • Ridiculed
  • Attacked

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Some Specific Negative Reactions
  • Its just a book of stories written by
    imaginative or superstitious men.
  • Biblical accounts do not take the form of legends
    or myths.
  • They are reported as historical facts.
  • Often they are recorded in a fashion that made
    them checkable when first written.

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2 Peter 116
  • For we did not follow cunningly devised fables
    when we made known to you the power and coming of
    our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of
    His majesty.

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Some Specific Negative Reactions
  • Its old and outdated. Weve outgrown its
    primitive concepts.
  • Arrogance of modernity
  • Athenians in Acts 1721
  • Just because something is old does not mean it is
    outdated multiplication table.

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Some Specific Negative Reactions
  • Its filled with contradictions.
  • Logical explanations for these have been listed.
  • Alleged contradictions are not real
    contradictions.
  • Consider
  • Context
  • Authors purpose
  • Authors audience
  • Type of writing

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Some Specific Negative Reactions
  • The Bible is not scientifically or historically
    accurate.
  • Alleged historical inaccuracies have often been
    resolved by archaeological discoveries.
  • Though not a science text, the Bible does not
    conflict with scientific fact.
  • There are many mistakes the Bible does NOT make
    that were accepted by contemporary culture.

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Some Specific Negative Reactions
  • The Bible is a dead letter. Faith must be based
    on something vibrant and not a book.
  • Hebrews 412 living and active
  • We see the power of the Bible in lives that are
    changed by it.

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Some Facts to Consider
  • The Bible has endured time
  • The newest portion is over 1900 years old.
  • The oldest portion is over 3500 years old.
  • Yet still widely circulated.
  • The Bible has endured attacks
  • Physical
  • Intellectual

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Some Facts to Consider
  • The Bible displays amazing unity.
  • Written by 40 authors
  • Written over a period of 1600 years
  • Written in three languages
  • Written on three continents
  • Yet it is harmonious with each part contributing
    to the overall theme the glory of God and the
    salvation of man through Jesus Christ.

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Some Facts to Consider
  • The Bible displays scientific foreknowledge
  • The roundness of the earth - Isaiah 4022
  • The suspension of the earth in space - Job 267
  • The currents in the seas - Psalm 88
  • All nations of one blood - Acts 1726
  • Laws of quarantine and hygiene

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Some Facts to Consider
  • The Bible contains fulfilled prophecies
  • Destruction of Babylon - 200 years before it
    happened - Isaiah 1317-22
  • Fall of Egypt from civil war - Isaiah 191-4
  • Utter destruction of Nineveh - Zephaniah 213-15
  • Fall of Tyre Ezekiel 261-5

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Some Facts to Consider
  • Prophecies of Jesus
  • There are over 300 prophecies of Jesus in the Old
    Testament
  • The chances of all of these being fulfilled by
    coincidence in one person are 1 in 10157

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ONE chance in
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    00,000,000
  • Josh McDowell, Dont Check Your Brains at the
    Door, p. 67, citing Peter Stoner, Science Speaks.

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Some Facts to Consider
  • The Bible is superior to other holy books
  • Think Magazine - June 2008 Do We All Worship
    the Same God?
  • God Wrote a Book James MacDonald

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  • Pile them, if you will, on the left side of your
    study table but place your own Holy Bible on the
    right sideall by itself, all aloneand with a
    wide gap between them. Forthere is a gulf
    between it and the so-called sacred books of the
    East which severs the one from the other utterly
    hopelessly, and a forevera veritable gulf which
    cannot be bridged over by any science of
    religious thought.
  • Professor M. Montiero-Williams
  • former Boden professor Of Sanskrit who spent 42
    years studying Eastern books
  • http//www.why-the-bible.com/bible.htm - July
    9, 2008

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Why the Bible Matters
  • It is Gods Word to us.
  • It addresses the deepest needs of mankind.
  • Where did I come from?
  • Why am I here?
  • Where am I going?
  • It convicts and converts Hebrews 412
  • It comforts and restores Psalm 197
  • It tells of Jesus
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