“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
“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
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
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.”
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.”
1. Hittites - Gen. 15:20 ~~ 1906
2. Pilate Governor of Judea - Matt. 27:2 ~~ 1961
3. Cyrenius Governor of Syria – Lk. 2:2 ~~ Coins
1799 - Rosetta Stone
2000 years before Moses
1901 - Code of Hammurabi
500 years before Moses
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)
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)
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)
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.
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)
 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 !
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)
Jesus was Crucifixion
Prophesied
Fulfilled
Betrayed by a friend
Sold for 30 pieces of silver
Forsaken by His disciples
Accused by false witnesses
Silent before accusers
Wounded and bruised
Beaten and spit upon
Mocked
Hands and feet pierced
Crucified with thieves
Rejected by His own people
Hated without cause
Friends stood afar
People wag their heads
Ps 41:9
Zech 11:12
Zech 13:7
Ps 35:11+20-21
Isa 53:7
Isa 53:4-6
Isa 50:6
Ps 22:6-8
Ps 22:16
Isa 53:12
Isa 53:3
Ps 69:4
Ps 38:11
Ps 22:7;109:25
Jn 13:18-27
Mt 26:14-15
Mk 14:27+50
Mt 26:59-61
Mt 27:12-14
1 Pet 2:21-25
Mt 26:67-68
Mt 27:27-31
Jn 20:24-28
Mt 27:38
Jn 19:14-15
Jn 15:25
Lk 22:54;23:49
Mt 27:39
Cloths divided and gambled for
Ps 22:18
Jn 19:23-24
Gall and vinegar offered Him
Ps 69:21
Mt 27:34
Bones not broken
His side pierced
Buried in rich man's tomb
Ps 34:20
Zech 12:10
Isa 53:9
Jn 19:32-36
Jn 19:34+37
Mt 27:57-60
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
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 !
“This great book is the best
gift God has given to man,
but for it we could not know
right from wrong.”
- Abraham Lincoln
In Christ
= SAVED
Baptized (Gal.3:27)
Confess (Rom.10:10)
Repent (Lk.13:3)
Believe (Jn.8:24)
Hear (Rom.10:17)