1. Reasons We Can Trust The Bible 7
Reasons We Can Trust The Bible

2. 7 Reasons We Can Trust The Bible
Historical Evidence 

3. #1 Historical Evidence

4. Approximate Time Span between original & copy
Author
Date Written
Earliest Copy
Approximate Time Span between original & copy
Number of Copies
Accuracy of Copies
Lucretius
died 55 or 53 B.C.
1100 yrs 2
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Pliny
A.D
A.D. 850
750 yrs 7
Plato
B.C.
A.D. 900
1200 yrs
Demosthenes
4th Cent. B.C.
A.D. 1100
800 yrs 8
Herodotus
B.C.
1300 yrs
Suetonius
A.D
A.D. 950
Thucydides
B.C.
Euripides
B.C. 9
Aristophanes
B.C.
1200 10
Caesar
B.C.
1000
Livy
59 BC-AD 17
??? 20
Tacitus
circa A.D. 100
1000 yrs
Aristotle
B.C.
1400 49
Sophocles
B.C.
A.D. 1000
1400 yrs
193
Homer (Iliad)
900 B.C.
400 B.C.
500 yrs
643
95%
New Testament
1st Cent. A.D. (A.D )
2nd Cent. A.D. (c. A.D. 130 f.)
less than 100 years
5600
99.5%

5. Dead Sea Scrolls

6. { 7 Reasons We Can Trust The Bible   Historical Evidence
Scientific Accuracy
Historical Evidence  

7. #2 Scientific Accuracy

8. a creature is in the BLOOD.”
“For the LIFE of
a creature is in the BLOOD.”
-Leviticus 17:11

9. When dealing with disease,
clothes & bodies should be WASHED
under RUNNING WATER.
(Leviticus 15:13)

10. “He spreads out the northern skies over EMPTY SPACE ; He suspends the EARTH over nothing.”
-Job 26:7

11. “Have you journeyed to the SPRINGS of the SEA or walked in the recesses of the deep?”
-Job 38:16

12. First Law of Thermodynamics: Total quantity of ENERGY & MATTER in the universe is constant. (Genesis 2:1-2)

13. “He sits enthroned above the CIRCLE of the earth.”
-Isaiah 40:22

14. “The birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the PATHS of the seas.”
-Psalm 8:8

15. Hydrological Cycle: God “draws up drops of WATER, which distill as RAIN from the mist, which the clouds drop down and pour abundantly on man”
-Job 36:27-28

16. “The WIND goes toward the south, and turns around to the north; the WIND whirls about continually, and comes again on its circuit.”
-Ecclesiastes 1:6

17. “Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, or loose the belt of Orion
- Job 38:31

18. { 7 Reasons We Can Trust The Bible    Historical Evidence
Predictive Accuracy
Scientific Accuracy
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19. #3 Predictive Accuracy  
"... I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done ..." (Isaiah 46:9-10)  

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21. BIBLICAL PROPHECIES FULFILLED BY JESUS
The Messiah Will Be Born In Bethlehem
The Messiah Will Be Born Of A Virgin
The Messiah Will Be A Prophet Like Moses
The Messiah Will Be Tempted By Satan
The Messiah Will Enter Jerusalem Triumphantly
The Messiah Will Be Rejected By His Own People
The Messiah Will Be Betrayed By One Of His Followers
The Messiah Will Be Betrayed For 30 Pieces Of Silver
The Messiah Will Be Tried And Condemned
The Messiah Will Be Silent Before His Accusers
The Messiah Will Be Smitten And Spat Upon
The Messiah Will Be Mocked And Taunted
The Messiah To Die By Crucifixion, With Pierced Hands & Feet
The Messiah Will Suffer With Sinners
The Messiah’s Garments Will Be Divided By Casting Lots
The Messiah’s Bones Will Not Be Broken
The Messiah Will Die As A Sin Offering
The Messiah Will See His Seed
The Messiah Will Be Buried In A Rich Man’s Tomb
The Messiah Will Be Raised From The Dead
The Messiah Will Sit At God’s Right Hand
JESUS AND YOU

23. { 7 Reasons We Can Trust The Bible     Historical Evidence
“Author” Consistency
Predictive Accuracy
Scientific Accuracy
Historical Evidence    

24. The bible was composed by about 40 men over a period of 1500 years.
#4 Author Consistency
The bible was composed by about 40 men over a period of 1500 years.

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26. { 7 Reasons We Can Trust The Bible      Historical Evidence
Cultural Consistency
“Author” Consistency
Predictive Accuracy
Scientific Accuracy
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27. #5 Cultural Consistency[ L ]
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28. The bible is TRANSCULTURAL.
Jesus was an EASTERN man and the bible an EASTERN book, yet it transpires every cultural line.
CULTURE

29. { 7 Reasons We Can Trust The Bible      Historical Evidence 
Cultural Consistency
“Author” Consistency
Predictive Accuracy
Scientific Accuracy
Historical Evidence
Motive Authenticity    

30. #6 Motive Authenticity

31. 3 motives driving bias: FINANCIAL gain, SEXUAL LUST
3 motives driving bias: FINANCIAL gain, SEXUAL LUST* or the pursuit of POWER.   
*or RELATIONAL DESIRE

32. { 7 Reasons We Can Trust The Bible       Historical Evidence
Test of Time  
Cultural Consistency
“Author” Consistency
Predictive Accuracy
Scientific Accuracy
Historical Evidence
Motive Authenticity    

33. Test of Time BC AD

34. The bible is the BEST – SELLING book of all time.

35. I do not have enough faith to be an atheist.
-Frank Turek

37. “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.”
-Matthew 7:24 L Ĥ a E Ñ ĥ