8. 1) Manuscripts
There are a lot less Old Testament
manuscripts
But that’s because the Jewish people
burned any manuscript with an error
So, they are super accurate
11. 3) Science
Job 26:7
He stretches out the north over the void
and hangs the earth on nothing.
12. 3) Science
Isaiah 40:21-22
Do you not know? Do you
not hear? Has it not been
told you from the
beginning? Have you not
understood from the
foundations of the earth?
It is He [God] who sits
above the circle of the
earth . . .
13. 4) Prophecy
He was despised and rejected by men; a man of
sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one
from whom men hide their faces he was
despised, and we esteemed Him not. Surely he has
borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we
esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and
afflicted. But He was wounded for our
transgressions; He was crushed for our iniquities;
upon Him was the chastisement that brought us
peace, and with His stripes we are healed.
Isaiah
53:3-5, 7, 12
About 750 years before Jesus was crucified
14. 4) Prophecy
Messianic prophecies
Historical prophecies
Ezekiel 26:4, 14 foretells destruction of Tyre
18. “God-Breathed”
Who wrote the Bible?
2 Peter 1:20-21 – Knowing this first of
all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes
from someone’s own interpretation. For
no prophecy was ever produced by the
will of man, but men spoke from God as
they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
19. “God-Breathed”
Inspiration – The Bible is God’s Very Word
God recorded His very Words by using the
human writers
Does NOT mean…
The authors very inspired and decided to
write the Bible
God dictated to them the words to write
20. “All scripture”
Proverbs 30:5 - Every word of God proves
true . . .
Does NOT mean…
Only some parts of the Bible are true
Just the main ideas are inspired
21. Doctrines
Inspiration
– God used humans to write His
exact and perfect Word
Inerrancy ...?
Preservation ...?
22. Inerrancy
TheBible is true and has no errors or
mistakes
John 17:17 - . . . Your [God’s] Word is truth.
23. Preservation
Matthew 24:35
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my
[Jesus speaking] words will not pass away.
1 Peter 1:24
For “all flesh is like grass and all its glory like
the flower of grass. The grass withers and
the flower falls, but the Word of the Lord
remains forever.” . . .
Preservation – God has kept His Word and
will continue to keep His Word.
It has not been lost.
25. Teams!
Red Blue Green Orange
Chestnut Wildcat Woodchuck Weasel
Sugar Maple Bayberry Beech Silver Maple
Wolf Cherry Cedar Skylark
Basswood Birch Butternut
26. How many New Testament
manuscripts do we have?
1,000-2,000
3,000-4,000
5,000-6,000
10,000+
