1. “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God...” 2 Tim. 3:16-17  Many skeptical in the world today  The Bible has no fear of investigation  Evidence that the Bible is from God

2. “Those by the wayside are the ones who hear; then the devil comes and takes away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.” Lk. 8:12 “If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man’s belief in the Bible.” Voltaire

3.  66 books written over 1500 years (1491 BC – 90 AD) by 40 men  If product of man, then by now he would have produced another one  The Unity of the Bible -- one continuous message  No Contradictions  No Mistakes

5. Isa. 40:8 “The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever.” Matt. 24:35 “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.” 1 Pet. 1:24-25 “ALL FLESH IS AS GRASS, AND ALL THE GLORY OF MAN AS THE FLOWER OF THE GRASS. THE GRASS WITHERS, AND ITS FLOWER FALLS AWAY, BUT THE WORD OF THE LORD ENDURES FOREVER.”

6. 1. Diocletian [303 A.D.] - every copy of the Bible be burned 2. Voltaire “while it took 12 men to write Christianity up, I will show that it takes but one man to write it down.” 3. Voltaire “100 years from his death you would only be able to find a copy of the Bible in a museum.” 4. Ingersoll “In 15 years I will have this book in the morgue.”

8. 1.Hittites - Gen. 15:20 ~~ 1906 2.Pilate Governor of Judea - Matt. 27:2 ~~ 1961 3.Cyrenius Governor of Syria – Lk. 2:2 ~~ Coins

9. 1901 - Code of Hammurabi 500 years before Moses 1799 - Rosetta Stone 2000 years before Moses

10. FACT: Earth held up by invisible forces Theory - earth rested on back of 7 elephants Copernicus - 1473-1543 - Proved “He stretches out the north over the empty place, and hangs the earth upon nothing.” Job 26:7 (1491 BC)

11. FACT: The earth is round Theory - earth is flat or square Magellan - 1522 - Proved “It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in” Isa. 40:22 (698 BC)

12. FACT: Life is in the blood  Harvey - 1615 - Proved life principle in blood  Theory - Source of disease - “bloodletting” “But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.” Gen 9:4 (1491 BC) “the life of the flesh is in the blood” Lev. 17:11 (1490 BC)

13. FACT: The oceans have natural lanes Matthew Murray - 1806-1873 “The birds of the air, And the fish of the sea that pass through the paths of the seas.” Ps. 8:8 (1015 BC) He discovered them in 1854.

14. FACT: Empty place in the North  Astronomers have discovered a great empty place  167,000,000,000 miles  30,000 of our solar systems could fit inside “He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth on nothing.” Job 26:7 (1491 BC)

15.  Bible writers were not men of science  If the Bible was just from men, then it would have the scientific beliefs of the times when they wrote!  When the Bible touches on scientific points, it is always correct !

16. PROPHECY: “they pierced My hands and My feet.” Ps. 22:16 (1015 BC) EVENT: Crucifixion of Christ FULFILLED: “where they crucified Him, and two others with Him, one on either side, and Jesus in the center.” Jn. 19:18 (AD 33)

17. Jesus was CrucifixionProphesiedFulfilled Betrayed by a friendPs 41:9Jn 13:18-27 Sold for 30 pieces of silverZech 11:12Mt 26:14-15 Forsaken by His disciplesZech 13:7Mk 14:27+50 Accused by false witnessesPs 35:11+20-21Mt 26:59-61 Silent before accusersIsa 53:7Mt 27:12-14 Wounded and bruisedIsa 53:4-61 Pet 2:21-25 Beaten and spit uponIsa 50:6Mt 26:67-68 MockedPs 22:6-8Mt 27:27-31 Hands and feet piercedPs 22:16Jn 20:24-28 Crucified with thievesIsa 53:12Mt 27:38 Rejected by His own peopleIsa 53:3Jn 19:14-15 Hated without causePs 69:4Jn 15:25 Friends stood afarPs 38:11Lk 22:54;23:49 People wag their headsPs 22:7;109:25Mt 27:39 Cloths divided and gambled forPs 22:18Jn 19:23-24 Gall and vinegar offered HimPs 69:21Mt 27:34 Bones not brokenPs 34:20Jn 19:32-36 His side piercedZech 12:10Jn 19:34+37 Buried in rich man's tombIsa 53:9Mt 27:57-60

18. PROPHECY: “Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats” 1 Tim. 4:3 EVENT: Doctrines of forbidding to marry and abstaining from meats FULFILLED: Roman Catholic Church

19. 1.Never been a book equal to or better than the Bible 2.If it was from man, then he would have produced another one or a better one 3.The Holy Spirit, through man, produced the Bible ! 4.The Bible has transformed humanity wherever it has gone !

20. “This great book is the best gift God has given to man, but for it we could not know right from wrong.” - Abraham Lincoln

22. In Christ = SAVED Baptized (Gal.3:27) Confess (Rom.10:10) Hear (Rom.10:17) Believe (Jn.8:24) Repent (Lk.13:3)