Is the Bible Trustworthy? - a podcast by Lewis Marsh

Upon the Rock #1

Can the Bible Be Trusted?

By Louie Marsh, 1-17-2021

 

Quotes about the Bible:

 

“The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.”  ― Mark Twain

 

“The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.”  ― Søren Kierkegaard,

 

“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”  ― Richard Dawkins

 

“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”  ― Isaac Asimov

 

“It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.”  ― Horace Greeley

 

The Bible Says…

 

• It’s INSPIRED by God.

 

16  All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 2 Timothy 3:16 (ESV)

 

2) I must OBEY IT.

 

17  that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy 3:17 (ESV)

 

10  For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:10 (ESV)

 

3) It Is 100% TRUE.

 

17  Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. John 17:17 (ESV)

 

13  In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, Ephesians 1:13 (ESV)

 

• It Has the key to ETERNAL LIFE.

 

39  You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, 40  yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life. John 5:39-40 (ESV)

 

How Do I Know That The Bible Is True?

 

1) EYE WITNESS_ authority.

 

14  Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.” Exodus 17:14 (ESV)

 

8  And now, go, write it before them on a tablet and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come as a witness forever. Isaiah 30:8 (ESV)

 

“1That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life—”…“3that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.” (1 John 1:1,3, ESV)

 

2) FULFILLED  Prophecy.

 

“2But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.” (Micah 5:2, ESV)

Messianic prophecies picture.

 

3) UNRIVIALED HISTORICAL Accuracy.

 

7  Abraham rose and bowed to the Hittites, the people of the land. Genesis 23:7 (ESV)

 

Hittite picture map and picture.

 

12  From then on Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend. Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar.” John 19:12 (ESV)

 

Pic of Pilate stone, Pilate coin.

 

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