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Gary and Barb Glover

Why We Can Trust. the Bible. Gary and Barb Glover. We don’t use archeology and Biblical criticism to prove the Bible. We use them to confirm what we already know to be true. Overview of the Session WEEK TITLE 1. What the Bible Says about the Bible 2. Manuscripts and Translations

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Gary and Barb Glover

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  1. Why We Can Trust the Bible Gary and Barb Glover

  2. We don’t use archeology and Biblical criticism to prove the Bible. We use them to confirm what we already know to be true.

  3. Overview of the Session WEEK TITLE 1. What the Bible Says about the Bible 2. Manuscripts and Translations 3. The Apocrypha 4. The “Lost” Books of the Bible 5. Archeology and the Bible 6. Translations and Versions 7. How We Got the English Bible 8. How We Know the Bible Is True

  4. LESSON 2 Manuscripts and Translations

  5. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 2 Timothy 3:16 reproof—wrong conduct correction—wrong doctrine

  6. Manuscripts of the Old Testament manuscript =hand written The Bible until Gutenburg’s printing press in 1450.

  7. First 5 books of the Bible The Books of Moses The Pentateuch The Law The Torah Quoted 200 times in the New Testament. Every book of the OT is quoted in the NT except Esther. =hand written

  8. GEN EXD LIV NUM DUT T O R A H TORAH YHWH H A R O T HAROT 7x7=49 7 =hand written

  9. Ezra Compiled around 450 BC. This became the Hebrew scriptures hand written

  10. Number of letters. Number of words. Very specific number of lines to a page. How many letters before and after the middle letter of a book. The middle letter of the Torah. The middle letter of the Old Testament. If a single mistake was made the entire manuscript was destroyed.

  11. Septuagint LXX Greek translation around 200 BC When the Old Testament is quoted in the New Testament, they are quoting the Septuagint. The Bible of the early Church

  12. Masoretes Masoretic Text around 500 AD Oldest Hebrew text from around 1014 AD. Our Old Testament is a translation of the Masoretic text.

  13. Dead Sea Scrolls 1947 Gave us manuscripts a thousand years older than what was available previously.

  14. The Ten Commandments

  15. Isaiah

  16. Psalms Found copies of every book except Esther

  17. The Dead Sea Scrolls all but silenced the critics about the authenticity of the Old Testament. We can trust the Old Testament.

  18. Manuscripts of the New Testament manuscript =hand written The Bible until Gutenburg’s printing press in 1450.

  19. The English Bible is a translation of a translation of a translation (etc.) of the original, and fresh errors were introduced in each stage of the process.

  20. ORIGINAL WRITINGS (THE AUTOGRAPHS) FIRST COPIES LATIN TRANSLATION JEROME’S LATIN VULGATE Greek Greek Latin Latin ERASMUS GREEK NT AND LEXICON WYCLIFF’S FIRST ENGLISH BIBLE KING JAMES VERSION English Greek English

  21. “The proportion of words virtually accepted on all hands as raised above doubt is very great, not less, on a rough computation, than seven-eighths of the whole.

  22. “The remaining eighth therefore, formed in great part by changes of order and other comparatively trivialities, constitutes the whole area of criticism.

  23. “The number of manuscripts of the New Testament, of early translations from it, and of quotations from it in the oldest writers of the Church, is so large that it is practically certain that the true reading of every doubtful passage is preserved in some one or other of these ancient authorities.

  24. “The Christian can take the whole Bible in his hand without fear or hesitation that he holds in it the true word of God, handed down without essential loss from generation to generation throughout the centuries.” Sir Fredrick Kenyon, Director of the British Museum for twenty years, Our Bible and the Ancient Manuscripts.

  25. You could tear out any page of the Bible and still not destroy any doctrine of the Bible. Chuck Misler, How We Got Our Bible You cannot base any doctrine of the Bible on only one particular verse. . . unless you are a snake handler.

  26. Textual criticism A branch of textual scholarship that is concerned with the identification and removal of transcription errors in the texts of manuscripts. Given a manuscript copy, several or many copies, but not the original document, the textual critic seeks to reconstruct the original text (the archetype or autograph) as closely as possible. =hand written

  27. Gary dearly loves Barb. Barb is dearly loved by Gary. Dearly beloved is Barb to Gary. Barb is the heart-throb of Gary. =hand written

  28. Jamie recieved the book from Bettie. Jamie received the book from Bettie. =hand written

  29. Greg went to Kalamazoo on the airplane. Greg went to Kalamazoo in the airplane. =hand written

  30. For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. Revelation 22:18, 19

  31. Gary and Barb were married on May the 6th and have been married for 47 years. Gary and Barb Glover were married on May the 6th and have been married for 47 years. How can we determine which was the original and did one leave part out, or did one add something in? =hand written

  32. The reality is the amount of variations between the two most extremely different New Testament manuscripts would not fundamentally alter the message of the Scriptures. I make this claim

  33. (1) fully aware of the wide range of textual variants in the New Testament and (2) painfully aware of the strong attack upon those who have made similar statements in the past.

  34. The simple fact of the matter is that no textual variants in either the Old or New Testaments in any way, shape, or form materially disrupt or destroy any essential doctrine of the Christian faith. Any semi-impartial review will substantiate this. James White, The King James Only Controversy, page 87

  35. “. . .the amount of what in any sense can be called substantial variation is but a small fraction of the whole residuary variation, and can hardly form more than a thousandth part of the entire text.”

  36. Why Can We Trust the Bible? because of the vast quantity of ancient manuscripts and the intense efforts of both friends and foes to evaluate their AUTHENTICITY.

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