1. Getting your Head around the Bible #3 Without error? Really? Numbers 23:19

2. Bible Getting your Head around the #3 Without error? Really? Numbers 23:19 Numbers 23:19 God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. House MD: “Everybody lies” John 14:26 the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. Biblical Inerrancy

3. Bible Getting your Head around the #3 Without error? Really? Numbers 23:19 OLD TESTAMENT

4. Bible Getting your Head around the #2 Who decided what’s in there? Luke 11:45-54 Isaiah written 700 BC 2015 AD Dead Sea Scrolls 125 BC Jesus 0 AD Oldest complete copy 916 AD 1600yrs – big gap! Preserved almost perfectly OLD TESTAMENT

5. Bible Getting your Head around the #3 Without error? Really? Numbers 23:19 20,000 ancient MSS in total >1M quotes in the Church Fathers Far, far more than any other ancient document But it wasn’t copied carefully... NEW TESTAMENT

6. Bible Getting your Head around the #3 Without error? Really? Numbers 23:19

7. Bible Getting your Head around the #3 Without error? Really? Numbers 23:19 Is my English Bible a good translation? Translate the words Translate the ideas For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. (NIV) NIVMSG John 3:16 Thus for loved God the world, so that the Son the only he gave, in order that every the believing one in him not should perish but should have life eternal. (literal) This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. (The Message) Interlinear

8. Bible Getting your Head around the #3 Without error? Really? Numbers 23:19 Is my English Bible a good translation? Translate the words Translate the ideas Then David rested with his ancestors and was buried (NIV) ESV KJV NIV NLT MSG 1Kings 2:10 Then David slept with his fathers and was buried (ESV) Then David died and was buried with his ancestors (NLT) Interlinear

9. Bible Getting your Head around the #3 Without error? Really? Numbers 23:19 For Jesus, misunderstandings of Scripture come about because humans are muddled, rather than because the Bible is. Andrew Wilson