Notes for
The Search For Truth-6
How do I know the Bible is God’s word to humanity?
Gallup Poll:
Only 20% of Americans now say the Bible is the literal word of God.
29% say the Bible is a collection of "fables, legends, history and moral precepts recorded by man."
Evidence #1: The fact is the Bible is the number one best-seller on the planet-and has always been.
By the year 1932 1,330,213,815 copies of the Bible were distributed.
There are over 130 Bible Societies in the world today and they distribute about 500 million copies of the Bible in over 2,300 languages every year.
The most amazing fact about the Bible is that only one in five Americans have even read the whole Bible.
Just 37% of those interviewed could name all four Gospels.
Only 42% of adults were able to name as many as five of the Ten Commandments correctly.
The Bible has 8,352 verses out of its total 31,124 that are predictive (27%). There are about 2,500 prophecies in the Bible, about 2000 of which already have been fulfilled to the letter.
The number one subject of Bible prophesies is Jesus, with 127 detailed prophecies about His birth, life, death and resurrection.
Psalm 22:1 “My God, my God, why have you forsaken Me?”
Matthew 27:46 About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?"--which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
Psalm 22:6 “He trusts in the Lord, let the Lord rescue Him.”
Matthew 27:43 “He trusts in God. Let God rescue him now”
Daniel prophecies six hundred years in advance the very year that Jesus would come on the scene and be baptized and anointed with the Holy Spirit.
Daniel 9:24-25 "Seventy 'sevens' are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy. "Know and understand this: From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler, comes, there will be seven 'sevens,' and sixty-two 'sevens.' It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble.
Ezra 7: 13 Artaxerxes, king of kings, To Ezra the priest, a teacher of the Law of the God of heaven: Greetings. Now I decree that any of the Israelites in my kingdom, including priests and Levites, who wish to go to Jerusalem with you, may go.
Daniel prophesied that the Coming King would be anointed then in the year 26A.D. (483 years after 458 B.C.)
One: the Bible mentions a group of people called the Hittites 46 times as being an important and powerful nation, but until the 1800’s no one had ever heard of them.
Joshua 1:4 Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon, and from the great river, the Euphrates—all the Hittite country—to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.
Two: the tel Dan inscription proves that King David was a real person.
Three: the Deir Alla inscription proves that Balaam, son of Beor, the seer really lived.
Numbers 24:3 and he spoke his message: “The prophecy of Balaam son of Beor, the prophecy of one whose eye sees clearly.
The Merneptah stele shows that Israel lived as a people in Canaan in the twelve hundreds BC and had no king.
Five: the historical accuracy of the New Testament was confirmed when archeologists found the pool of Bethesda.
"Nowhere has archeological discovery refuted the Bible as history." John Elder
"Near Eastern archeology has demonstrated the historical and geographical reliability of the Bible in many important areas… It is now known, for instance, that, along with the Hittites, Hebrew scribes were the best historians in the entire ancient Near East, E. M. Blalklock
"There can be no doubt that archeology has confirmed the substantial historicity of The Old Testament." William Albright
"As a matter of fact, however, it may be clearly stated categorically that no archeological discovery has ever controverted a single biblical reference. Scores of archeological findings have been made which confirm in clear outline or exact detail historical statements in the Bible." Nelson Gluek
Deuteronomy 32:46-47 “Take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day, so that you may command your children to obey carefully all the words of this law. They are not just idle words for you—they are your life.
John 14:6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me….
