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The Case for the Bible

If you’ve been a Christian for very long, and if you’ve tried to talk to people about the Bible, then you’ve probably heard certain people slam the Bible from time to time. You’ve probably heard people say things like, “Anyone who has read the Bible knows that it is full of bad history, worse science, and terrible psychology!” If you talk to people long enough about the Bible, you’re going to run into some comments like this. So how credible is the Bible anyway? We know the Bible is extremely popular. When you add up all the special portions of the Bible that are packaged and sold each year, along with the entire Old and New Testaments, the sales exceed a billion copies per year! It is by far the most published and purchased book in the entire world! But today, we’re not asking, “Is it popular?” We’re asking, “Is it credible?” “Can we have confidence in the integrity of the Bible?”

November 4–5, 2006
The Case for the Bible
Series: The Case for Christianity
Speaker: Brian T. Anderson

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  1. Introduction
  2. The Case for the Bible
    1. The Case for the Bible historically
      1. Bad History - - “Any account of an actual event that plays loose with dates, places, people or storylines.”
    2. The Case for the Bible scientifically
      1. Gen. 2:1-2 (NLT) 1So the creation of the heavens and the earth and everything in them was completed. 2On the seventh day, having finished his task, God rested from all his work.
      2. Gen. 1:25 (NLT) God made all sorts of wild animals, livestock, and small animals, each able to reproduce more of its own kind. And God saw that it was good.
      3. “Species exhibit no directional change during their tenure on earth. They appear in the fossil record looking much the same as when they finally disappear.” (Stephen J. Gould, paleontologist)
    3. The Case for the Bible psychologically
      1. “Terrible” psychology is any psychology that puts a human being at the center of the universe instead of God !
      2. Matt. 7:24-27 (NLT) 24“Anyone who listens to my teaching and obeys me is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock. 25Though the rain comes in torrents and the floodwaters rise and the winds beat against that house, it won’t collapse, because it is built on rock. 26But anyone who hears my teaching and ignores it is foolish, like a person who builds a house on sand. 27When the rains and floods come and the winds beat against that house, it will fall with a mighty crash.”
      3. “What is your ‘ truth source ’ going to be?”
  3. Conclusion
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