Transcript Bible 101 - St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church of DC

St Mark’s Preservants’ course
Bible claims it’s Divinely Inspired
“All Scripture is given by inspiration
of God, and is profitable for doctrine,
for reproof, for correction, for
instruction in righteousness,”
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“for prophecy never came by the will
of man, but holy men of God spoke
as they were moved by the Holy
Spirit.” (2 Peter 1:21)
The unity of the Bible attests to
its Divine Authorship
The Bible was penned on 3 continents
 written in 3 languages (Hebrew, Greek,
Aramaic)
 its composition and compilation
extended through the slow progress of
16 centuries.
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Unity of the Bible
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the Bible is one Book, behind its many
parts there is an unmistakable organic
unity.
It contains:
 one system of doctrine,
 one code of ethics,
 one plan of salvation
 one rule of faith
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66 books by 40 authors of all different
walks of life (all inspired by ONE author
– Holy Spirit
The Completeness of the Bible
Demonstrates its Divine
Perfection
The Bible needs no addendum.
There is more than sufficient in God’s Word to
meet the temporal and spiritual needs of all
mankind.
 the Bible is still “up-to-date,” and answers
every vital question which concerns the
soul of man in our day.
 Book of Job written 3000 yrs before
Columbus discovered America- but applies
to every culture and every type of thought
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The Indestructibility of the Bible
Is a Proof that its Author Is Divine
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Not only has the Bible been the most intensely
loved Book in all the world, but it has also
been the most bitterly hated.
first three centuries of the Christian era the
Roman Emperors sought to destroy God’s
Word.
Diocletian had slain so many Christians and
destroyed so many Bibles, that when the
lovers of the Bible remained quiet for a season
and kept in hiding, he imagined that he had
made an end of the Scriptures. “The
Christian religion is destroyed and the
worship of the gods restored.”
Unique on its Influence upon
literature
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Could collect the whole bible if we
recollect by putting together quotations
from different books
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They say from the writings of the
Fathers of the church you could recover
the whole NT
Bible Not Only Validated by
Science, but Proceeded Science
“It is He who sits above the circle of
the earth,” Isaiah 40:22
 The earliest discovery is 300 BC by
some philosophers which is still 450
years after Isaiah.
 Job 26:7 talks about gravity before
Newton discovered it “He stretches out
the north over empty space; He
hangs the earth on nothing.”
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Famous quotes
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Sir Isaac Newton: “We account the
scriptures of God to be the most sublime
philosophy. I find more sure marks of
authenticity in the Bible than in any
profane history whatsoever.”
Albert Einstein: As a child I received
instruction both in the Bible and in the
Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by
the luminous figure of the Nazarene.... No
one can read the Gospels without feeling
the actual presence of Jesus. His
personality pulsates in every word. No
myth is filled with such life.
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In various passages, the Bible describes a
hydrologic cycle, the process by which clouds are
formed, rain is produced and ground water is
replenished. Science made the same discovery in
the 1600s, long after the Bible passages were
written.
"He wraps up the waters in his clouds, yet the
clouds do not burst under their weight" (Job
26:8, NIV).
"He draws up the drops of water, which distill as
rain to the streams; the clouds pour down their
moisture and abundant showers fall on mankind"
(Job 36:27-28, NIV).
The Missing link
 “
And the LORD
God formed man of
the dust of the
ground, and
breathed into his
nostrils the breath
of life; and man
became a living
being.” Genesis
2:7
Dead Sea Scrolls
has been hailed as the most important
archeological discovery of the twentieth
century
 two copies of Isaiah were found
 These books were thousands of years
older than the oldest dated manuscripts
previously known
 they proved to be word for word identical
to the standard Hebrew Bible in more
than 95% of the text
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The New Testament Manuscripts:
24,000 manuscript copies of portions of
the NT
 The earliest Gospel was written in 60AD
 If the stories in it were not true, would
have been refuted by all the witnesses
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Early Testimonies
After that He was seen by over five
hundred brethren at once, of whom the
greater part remain to the present, but
some have fallen asleep. (1 Corinthians
15:6)
 For we did not follow cunningly devised
fables when we made known to you the
power and coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ, but were eyewitnesses of His
majesty. (2 Peter 1:16)
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The Types of Christ in the OT
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The events recorded in the Old
Testament were actual occurrences,
yet they were also typical
prefigurations
 Isaac
 Joseph
 Moses
 David
No two of them represent Him from
exactly the same viewpoint.
 Each one contributes a line or two to
the picture, but all are needed to give a
complete explanation.
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