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By Harold C. Felder ©Copyright Harold C. Felder Roadmap ► Why our view of the Bible important? ► The Bible is inspired ► The Bible is inerrant ► Summary ©Copyright Harold C. Felder www.GivingAnAnswer.org Why is it Important? ► It Is the Foundation of our Faith The Bible is a record of God’s promises and the fulfillment of those promises The Bible is our main source for the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Without Jesus, there is no redemption and we are still in our sins. ©Copyright Harold C. Felder www.GivingAnAnswer.org Why is it Important? ► Need for Objective Truth Everyone needs their world view grounded in objective truth If there is a God there is an objective source of truth If the Bible is the Word of God, it should serve as our source ©Copyright Harold C. Felder www.GivingAnAnswer.org The Bible is Inspired ©Copyright Harold C. Felder www.GivingAnAnswer.org Claims to be Inspired ► Evident from the formula “It is written” ► Jesus indicated that not even the smallest part of a Hebrew letter could be broken ► Even the tenses are inspired ©Copyright Harold C. Felder www.GivingAnAnswer.org Claims to be Inspired ► Biblical inspiration extends to ever part of the words and all they teach or imply ► All of Scripture is equally inspired ©Copyright Harold C. Felder www.GivingAnAnswer.org Demonstrates to be Inspired ► Evidence of the testimony of the Holy Spirit ► Evidence from the transforming ability of the Bible ► Evidence from the influence of the Bible ©Copyright Harold C. Felder www.GivingAnAnswer.org Demonstrates to be Inspired ► Evidence from the unity of the Bible One theme—Jesus Christ One problem—sin One solution—the Savior ©Copyright Harold C. Felder www.GivingAnAnswer.org Demonstrates to be Inspired ► Evidence Bible ©Copyright Harold C. Felder from the historicity of the www.GivingAnAnswer.org Demonstrates to be Inspired ► Testimony of Jesus Jesus affirmed its historicity ►Jesus also verified the historicity of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, David, Isaiah, and Solomon Jesus affirmed its divine authority Jesus affirmed its imperishability ©Copyright Harold C. Felder www.GivingAnAnswer.org Demonstrates to be Inspired ► Testimony Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus of Jesus affirmed affirmed affirmed affirmed ©Copyright Harold C. Felder it is inspired it is unbreakable it is inerrant it’s ultimate supremacy www.GivingAnAnswer.org Demonstrates to be Inspired ► Prophecy The Bible contains 1,817 prophecies. Twenty-seven percent of the Bible is prophecy! There are 191 prophecies concerning the anticipated Jewish Messiah and Savior. Each was literally fulfilled in the life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus of Nazareth ©Copyright Harold C. Felder www.GivingAnAnswer.org Demonstrates to be Inspired ► Prophecy Mathematicians have calculated the probability of sixteen predictions being fulfilled in one man at 1 in 1045. If we go to forty-eight predictions, the probability is 1 in 10157 ©Copyright Harold C. Felder www.GivingAnAnswer.org Evidence from Prophecy ► Prophecies concerning Israel Israel to be conquered by Assyria ►In 722 B.C., the Assyrian conqueror Sargon II, conquered Israel. He scattered 27,000 of its inhabitants among Mesopotamia and Media (Albert Edward Bailey, History Of The Hebrew Commonwealth) ►Lev. was written by Moses circa 1444 B.C, hundreds of years before its fulfillment ©Copyright Harold C. Felder www.GivingAnAnswer.org Evidence from Prophecy ► Prophecies concerning Israel Israel to become a nation again ►The re-population of Israel (northern kingdom) did not begin to occur until the eighteenth century (Encyclopedia Britannica, s.v. "Israel, history of.“) ►The book of the prophet Jeremiah was completed around 586 B.C, 185 centuries before its fulfillment in 1948. ©Copyright Harold C. Felder www.GivingAnAnswer.org Evidence from Prophecy ► Prophecies concerning Israel Judah to go into captivity ►In 586 B.C., Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, conquered Jerusalem, capital of Judah. He striped the city of everything of value. Nearly all of the population was carried into exile. (Albert Bailey, History of the Hebrew Commonwealth) ►Isaiah accurately predicted these events around 700 B.C., 114 years before the actual exile took place ©Copyright Harold C. Felder www.GivingAnAnswer.org Evidence from Prophecy ► Prophecies concerning Israel Judah to be delivered from captivity ►"Cyrus The Great" was born between 590 and 580 B.C. and became known as, conqueror of Persia. History clearly states that it was this Cyrus who overthrew the Babylonians in 539 B.C. (Encyclopedia Britannica, s.v. "Cyrus II.“) ►In 538, Cyrus released the captives from exile to return to their homeland and rebuild their city and sanctuary (History of Hebrew Commonwealth) ©Copyright Harold C. Felder www.GivingAnAnswer.org Evidence from Prophecy ► Prophecies concerning world history Fall of Babylon ►In 539 B.C., 142 years after the prophecy was written, the Persians and Medes walked into Babylon with little or no resistance (Encyclopedia Britannica, s.v. "Babylon.“) ©Copyright Harold C. Felder www.GivingAnAnswer.org Evidence from Prophecy ► Prophecies concerning world history Rise of the Persia ►Three kings did succeed the current king (Cyrus II). The fourth king was Xerxes. He invaded Greece in 480 B.C. In what has became known as the Greco-Persian war of Xerxes, 480-479 (Barton Payne, Encyclopedia of Biblical Prophecy) ©Copyright Harold C. Felder www.GivingAnAnswer.org Evidence from Prophecy ► Prophecies concerning world history Fall of Persia ►Alexander the Great conquered the Medo-Persian Empire around 330 B.C., over two hundred years after Daniel's prophecy. (John F. Walvoord, The Nations in Prophecy) ©Copyright Harold C. Felder www.GivingAnAnswer.org Evidence from Prophecy ► Prophecies concerning Jesus Time of death ►This brings us to the year A.D. 30 as the year of our Lord's death, just as predicted 500 years before the event ©Copyright Harold C. Felder www.GivingAnAnswer.org Evidence from Prophecy ► Prophecies concerning Jesus Manner of death ►Tacitus writing around A.D. 115: “Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurator, Pontius Pilatus . . ." (Cornelius Annals 15.44) ©Copyright Harold C. Felder www.GivingAnAnswer.org Evidence from Prophecy ► What about psychics' ? The People’s Almanac (1976) did a study of the predictions of twenty-five top psychics. The results: Of the total seventy-two predictions, sixty-six (92 percent) were totally wrong ©Copyright Harold C. Felder www.GivingAnAnswer.org The Bible is Inerrant ©Copyright Harold C. Felder www.GivingAnAnswer.org Biblical Basis for Inerrancy ► The Bible Is the Word of God ► God cannot Err ► Therefore, the Bible cannot Err ©Copyright Harold C. Felder www.GivingAnAnswer.org The Bible Is the Word of God ► The Bible Is God-Breathed ► The Nature of a Prophet Prophets as mouthpieces of God spoke only what God put in their mouths ► The Divine Authority of the Bible ©Copyright Harold C. Felder www.GivingAnAnswer.org The Bible Is the Word of God ► What the Bible Says, God Says ► The Bible is Called the Word of God ©Copyright Harold C. Felder www.GivingAnAnswer.org God Cannot Err ► From the nature of God God is the ultimate Moral Lawgiver The ultimate source of all moral perfection cannot be less than ultimately perfect Hence, He cannot lie or give information He knows to be false ► From Scripture ©Copyright Harold C. Felder www.GivingAnAnswer.org Therefore, the Bible Cannot Err ► Since the Bible is the Word of God and Good cannot err, then it follows that the Bible cannot err. ©Copyright Harold C. Felder www.GivingAnAnswer.org Summary ► The Bible claims and demonstrates it is the inspired Word of God ► Inspiration implies inerrancy ► Since the Bible is the Word of God and God cannot err, the Bible cannot err ©Copyright Harold C. Felder www.GivingAnAnswer.org The End ©Copyright Harold C. Felder www.GivingAnAnswer.org