Can You Prove the Bible is Inspired?

Can You Prove the Bible is Inspired?
2 Timothy 3:16-17
The Bible claims to be inspired
2 Timothy 3:16-17 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

Implications for my life …
God is its author …
It speaks to my life …
Eternity depends on it ..
1st Proof: Unity of the Scriptures
1st Proof: Unity of the Scriptures…
1st Proof: Unity of the Scriptures…

2nd : Accuracy of the Bible …

2nd : Accuracy of the Bible …
Exodus 17:14 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Write this for a memorial in the book …
Genesis 23:10 Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the presence of the sons of Heth, all who entered at the gate of his city, saying,
Genesis 26:34 When Esau was forty years old, he took as wives Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
Exodus 3:8 to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.

2nd : Accuracy of the Bible …
3rd : Prophecies of the Bible …
Isaiah 41:22 "Let them bring forth and show us what will happen; Let them show the former things, what they were, That we may consider them, And know the latter end of them; Or declare to us things to come.

3rd : Prophecies of the Bible …
Predictive Prophecy criteria …
Proper timing
Specific details
Exact fulfillment
3rd : Prophecies of the Bible …
4th : Messianic Prophecies…
4th : Messianic Prophecies…
4th : Messianic Prophecies…
4th : Messianic Prophecies…
Can You Prove the Bible is Inspired?
2 Timothy 3:16-17
The Bible claims to be inspired…

• Physics also testifies to the Bible …
• Genesis 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished.

• Physics also testifies to the Bible …
• Hebrews 1:10-1 "You, Lord, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth, And the heavens are the work of Your hands. 11 They will perish, but You remain; And they will all grow old like a garment;
• Isaiah 51:6 For the heavens will vanish away like smoke, The earth will grow old like a garment,
• Evidence from field of Medicine…
• Leviticus 17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls
• Gen. 17:12 He who is eight days old among you shall be circumcised, every male child in your generations, he who is born in your house or bought with money from any foreigner who is not your descendant.
• Evidence from field of Medicine…
• Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed;He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel."
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• Biology also supports the Bible …
• Genesis 1:11 Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth"; and it was so.
• Acts 17:25 Nor is He worshiped with men's hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things.

• Biology also supports the Bible …
• Leviticus 17:15 "And every person who eats what died naturally or what was torn by beasts, whether he is a native of your own country or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes and bathe in water…
• Biology also supports the Bible …
• Leviticus 12-14 food restrictions…
– Land animals – split hoof and chew cud
– Fish – fins and scales
– Pork forbidden to the Jews
• Biology also supports the Bible …
• Human cell …
• DNA …
• The Bible and Science
• Job 38:16-20