Where did we get it? How did we get it? Is it trustworthy?

2. Where did we get it? How did we get it? Is it trustworthy?

3. Originally? Old Testament - 36-40 authors, 1500 years Books of law, history, poetry, wisdom, & prophecy Moses started with the Pentateuch

4. Exodus 17:14 • 14 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven

5. Numbers 33:2 • Moses wrote down their starting places, stage by stage, by command of the Lord, and these are their stages according to their starting places.

6. Joshua 24:26 • And Joshua wrote these words in the Book of the Law of God. And he took a large stone and set it up there under the terebinth that was by the sanctuary of the Lord.

7. 1 Samuel 10:25 • Then Samuel told the people the rights and duties of the kingship, and he wrote them in a book and laid it up before the Lord….

8. Jeremiah 36:2 • “Take a scroll and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel and Judah and all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah until today.”

9. TODAY How can we know our O.T. is the same? • It’s the same book that present day Jews have used 5th Century and beyond

10. TODAY How can we know our O.T. is the same? • It’s the same book that present day Jews have used • About 270 BCE the Septuagint was begun 5th Century and beyond 270 BCE

11. TODAY How can we know our O.T. is the same? • It’s the same book that present day Jews have used • About 270 BCE the Septuagint was begun • 1948 The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered 5th Century and beyond 100-200 BCE 270 BCE

12. TODAY How can we know our O.T. is the same? • It’s the same book that present day Jews have used • About 270 BCE the Septuagint was begun • 1948 The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered • 1st century testimony of Josephus 5th Century and beyond 1st century 100-200 BCE 270 BCE

13. Contra Apion, Whiston's Josephus, p.609 • ' From Artaxerxes (Malachi's time) until our time everything has been recorded but has not been deemed worthy of like credit with what has preceded, because the exact succession of prophets ceased. But what faith we have placed in our own writings is evident by our conduct; FOR though so long a time has now passed, • NO ONE HAS DARED TO ADD ANYTHING TO THEM, OR ALTER ANYTHING IN THEM'

14. Originally? New Testament - 8 authors - 60 years How can we know that our New Testament is the same as Paul’s?

15. TODAY How can we know our N.T. is the same? • Can compare to 15th century Bibles, (the printing press) 15th Century

16. TODAY How can we know our N.T. is the same? • Can compare to 15th century Bibles, (the printing press) • Can compare to 4th century mss. 15th Century The Vatican mss. The Sinaitic mss. The Alexandrian mss. 4th Century All 3 major manuscripts were discovered SINCE the KJV translation.

17. TODAY How can we know our N.T. is the same? • Can compare to 15th century Bibles, (the printing press) • Can compare to 4th century mss. • Can compare it to 3rd century quotations and versions 15th Century 4th Century 3rd Century

18. TODAY How can we know our NT is the same? • Can compare to 15th century Bibles, (the printing press) • Can compare to 4th century mss. • Can compare it to 3rd century quotations and versions • Can compare it to 2nd century versions, testimony, lists 15th Century 4th Century 3rd Century 2nd Century

19. Claims of only having letters circulated in the 2nd century are bogus • Claims of church councils in the 4th century establishing the canon are also in error • Claims of the Catholic church in giving us or saving the Bible are false

20. 2 Timothy 3:16 • All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

21. Matthew 24:35 • Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away