Podcast Prep - Do You Bible?
- 8 Unusual things that make "Scripture" stand out to me:
- It didn't just come to us, much of it came as a promise that still had to be fulfilled. (prophecy/mystery/fog) (promise/patience/beyond ability of any one man)(challenge of faith/generations drawn to beyond themselves)
- In it's unfolding it was proven that man really couldn't figure it out.
- Even having been afore written and then fulfilled, it still needed to be revealed.
- Once divinely revealed, it made perfect sense.
- Revealed scripture is so well connected old to new and new to old. It is a delight to see the foretasting/shadows.
- God is just as capable of revealing the scriptures to a child as HE is an old and learned man.
- Understood not by our power but by God's
- Bible revelation is such a grace bestowed upon us and such a joy to then receive!
kjv@Luke:4:21 @ And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.
kjv@John:17:12 @ While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
kjv@Acts:1:16 @ Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus.
kjv@Matthew:22:29 @ Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
kjv@John:5:39 @ Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
kjv@Matthew:21:42 @ Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
kjv@Luke:24:27 @ And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
kjv@Luke:24:45 @ Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures.
kjv@Luke:24:32 @ And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
kjv@Romans:4:3 @ For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
kjv@Galatians:3:8 @ And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
kjv@Romans:15:4 @ For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
kjv@2Timothy:3:15 @ And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures [Timothy/Mark], which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
kjv@2Peter:3:16 @ As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Recent B2P BackToThePsalms001
(1) Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. (2) But his delight is in the law (Torah) of the LORD; and in his law (Torah) doth he meditate day and night. (3) And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
Quotes:
“Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.”― Dwight Lyman Moody
“The reason you don’t like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.”― Billy Sunday
“A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.”― Charles H. Spurgeon
“You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.”― Mahatma Gandhi
Critical Quotes:
“The Bible has noble poetry in it… and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.” ― Mark Twain
“To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents, composed, revised, translated, distorted and ‘improved’ by hundreds of anonymous authors, editors and copyists, unknown to us and mostly unknown to each other, spanning nine centuries” ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
Supposed Bible Contradictions (examples)
(American Atheists)http://www.atheists.org/activism/resources/biblical-contradictions/ _The Sabbath Day_
“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.” — Exodus 20:8
“One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.” — Romans 14:5
_The Power of God_
“… with God all things are possible.” — Matthew 19:26
“…The LORD was with Judah; and he drove out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.” — Judges 1:19
_Personal Injury_
“…thou shalt give life for life, Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. ” — Exodus 21:23-25
“…ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.” — Matthew 5:39
Difficulties? Yes. Contradictions? No.
Recommend:http://likepreciousfaith.us/media/pdf/WhenCriticsAsk.pdf (Norman Geisler)
- "The Bible is without mistake, but the critics are not. All their allegations of error in the Bible are based on some error of their own. Their mistakes fall into the following main categories:"
- Mistake 1: Assuming that the Unexplained Is Not Explainable.
- Mistake 2: Presuming the Bible Guilty Until Proven Innocent.
- Mistake 3: Confusing Our Fallible Interpretations with God’s Infallible Revelation.
- Mistake 4: Failing to Understand the Context of the Passage
- Mistake 5: Neglecting to Interpret Difficult Passages in the Light of Clear Ones.
- Mistake 6: Basing a Teaching on an Obscure Passage.
- Mistake 7: Forgetting that the Bible Is a Human Book with Human Characteristics.
- Mistake 8: Assuming that a Partial Report is a False Report.
- Mistake 9: Demanding that NT Citations of the OT Always Be Exact Quotations.
- Mistake 10: Assuming that Divergent Accounts Are False Ones.
- Mistake 11: Presuming that the Bible Approves of All it Records.
- Mistake 12: Forgetting that the Bible Uses Non-technical, Everyday Language.
- Mistake 13: Assuming that Round Numbers Are False.
- Mistake 14: Neglecting to Note that the Bible Uses Different Literary Devices.
- Mistake 15: Forgetting that Only the Original Text, Not Every Copy of Scripture, Is without Error.
- Mistake 16: Confusing General Statements with Universal Ones.
- Mistake 17: Forgetting that Later Revelation Supersedes Previous Revelation.
Common words translated "scripture/word/gospel" (with Strong's definitions and examples)
- dict:strongs G1124 @ γραφή graphē graf-ay' From G1125 a document that is holy Writ (or its contents or a statement in it): - scripture. strkjv@2Timothy:3:16 strkjv@Romans:15:4 strkjv@Matthew:22:29
- dict:strongs H1697 @ דּבר dâbâr daw-bawr' From H1696 a word; by implication a matter (as spoken of) of thing strkjv@Isaiah:55:11 strkjv@Jeremiah:23:29 strkjv@Jeremiah:15:16 strkjv@Proverbs:4:20-23
- dict:strongs G4487 @ ῥῆμα rhēma hray'-mah From G4483 an utterance (individually collectively or specifically); by implication a matter or topic (especially of narration command or dispute) strkjv@Romans:10:17
- dict:strongs G3056 @ λόγος logos log'-os From G3004 something said (including the thought); by implication a topic (subject of discourse) also reasoning (the mental faculty) or motive; by extension a computation; specifically (with the article in John) the Divine Expression (that is Christ) strkjv@Matthew:24:35 strkjv@Hebrews:4:12-14
- dict:strongs H8451 @ תּרה תּורה tôrâh tôrâh {to-raw'} to-raw' From H3384 a precept or {statute} especially the Decalogue or Pentateuch: - law. strkjv@Psalms:19:7-11
- dict:strongs G2098 @ εὐαγγέλιον euaggelion yoo-ang-ghel'-ee-on From the same as G2097 a good message that is the gospel: - gospel. strkjv@Romans:1:16