WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:02.960 This is the book that says God made you to 2 00:00:03.040 --> 00:00:05.240 love you. This is the book that says you can 3 00:00:05.280 --> 00:00:07.879 be forgiven. This is the book that says, no matter 4 00:00:07.919 --> 00:00:10.560 what problem you go through, God can use it for 5 00:00:10.599 --> 00:00:12.720 good in your life. This is the book that tells 6 00:00:12.759 --> 00:00:15.880 you how to get to heaven. Now, the Bible is 7 00:00:15.919 --> 00:00:18.760 the most read book in the history. It's the best 8 00:00:18.760 --> 00:00:23.519 selling book in history, and it is the most translated 9 00:00:23.519 --> 00:00:28.199 book in history. Why is it the word of God? 10 00:00:28.320 --> 00:00:30.239 How do we know it is the word of God. 11 00:00:30.320 --> 00:00:33.280 We're going to look at that this weekend as we 12 00:00:33.320 --> 00:00:38.880 start in your outline two Timothy, Chapter three, the Bible 13 00:00:38.880 --> 00:00:46.960 says this, all scripture is God breathed, and it's useful 14 00:00:47.000 --> 00:00:51.600 for teaching and rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness. I'm 15 00:00:51.600 --> 00:00:54.399 going to explain that in another week, so that the 16 00:00:54.439 --> 00:00:58.600 Man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. 17 00:00:58.600 --> 00:01:01.399 We're going to look at this verse again next week, 18 00:01:01.439 --> 00:01:03.119 but I want you to look at the phrase all 19 00:01:03.200 --> 00:01:08.879 scripture is God breathed. Circle that word God breathed. That 20 00:01:08.959 --> 00:01:14.519 word in Greek is theo nustos, theo meaning God nustos 21 00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:19.239 being breathed. The Bible is God breathed. Now, what does 22 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:23.439 that mean? Some of the translations translated the scripture is inspired. 23 00:01:23.719 --> 00:01:26.680 But we're not talking about an inspiring writer writing an 24 00:01:26.719 --> 00:01:30.159 inspiring book. We're talking about God inspired this book. It 25 00:01:30.239 --> 00:01:36.400 is God breathed theo nustos. Right now, you are listening 26 00:01:36.680 --> 00:01:40.439 to the breath of Rick Warren. You're listening to my breath, 27 00:01:40.879 --> 00:01:45.400 because what my voice is is breath coming up over 28 00:01:45.519 --> 00:01:49.439 my vocal cords, vibrating those vocal cords and coming out 29 00:01:49.480 --> 00:01:52.040 a sound. If I didn't have any breath, I wouldn't 30 00:01:52.120 --> 00:01:56.560 have any voice. So the breath of Rick Warren is 31 00:01:56.840 --> 00:01:58.760 the word of Rick Warren. It is the voice of 32 00:01:58.840 --> 00:02:02.840 Rick Warren. And the Bible says that God's word is 33 00:02:03.000 --> 00:02:07.079 God's very breath. It's not just a good idea. It 34 00:02:07.200 --> 00:02:12.000 is God's word to us. And as a result of that, 35 00:02:12.039 --> 00:02:16.840 Psalm one nineteen tells us this, all of your commands 36 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:21.719 can be trusted. Everything in the Bible can be trusted 37 00:02:21.919 --> 00:02:23.319 as true because. 38 00:02:23.080 --> 00:02:24.520 It comes from God. 39 00:02:25.479 --> 00:02:27.840 Now, it's one thing for the Bible to claim that 40 00:02:27.879 --> 00:02:29.919 it's the word of God. It's one thing for the 41 00:02:29.960 --> 00:02:32.000 Bible to say it can be trusted. 42 00:02:32.039 --> 00:02:33.400 But how do I know? Really? 43 00:02:34.360 --> 00:02:37.319 I mean, really, how do I know this is the 44 00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:39.719 Word of God. It's not just some bunch of fables 45 00:02:39.800 --> 00:02:42.319 or a bunch of stories that were put together. It's 46 00:02:42.360 --> 00:02:45.840 a valid, legitimate, important question, and we need to ask 47 00:02:45.879 --> 00:02:48.199 before we ever start studying the Bible. How do I 48 00:02:48.240 --> 00:02:52.319 know I can trust it? Time Magazine thought this was 49 00:02:52.319 --> 00:02:55.159 such an important question it put it on its cover twice. 50 00:02:55.199 --> 00:02:57.240 Here was a cover of Time Magazine a while back 51 00:02:57.280 --> 00:03:01.719 that said, how true is the Bible? It's a good question. 52 00:03:02.879 --> 00:03:06.719 This morning, we're going to settle this issue because there 53 00:03:06.759 --> 00:03:12.000 are incredible proofs, evidences, and facts that you need to 54 00:03:12.039 --> 00:03:14.159 know to help you make up your mind. So you're 55 00:03:14.159 --> 00:03:16.120 not making up your mind based on what you've heard 56 00:03:16.199 --> 00:03:20.319 other people say, but what the Bible actually claims for itself, 57 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:23.840 and what history, science, and all these other things teach 58 00:03:23.919 --> 00:03:27.000 us about the Bible. We're going to look today to 59 00:03:27.039 --> 00:03:29.759 start off forty days in the Word on inspiration, how 60 00:03:29.800 --> 00:03:35.039 do I know I can trust the Bible? Well, there 61 00:03:35.080 --> 00:03:38.280 are seven reasons. Pastor Tom's going to help me with 62 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:40.560 these this weekend, but I want you to write down 63 00:03:40.599 --> 00:03:46.800 the first one. It is historically accurate. The Bible is 64 00:03:47.280 --> 00:03:50.759 historically accurate, and for that reason, I know I can 65 00:03:50.800 --> 00:03:53.360 trust the Bible. In other words, the Bible isn't just 66 00:03:53.479 --> 00:03:58.120 doctrinally correct. It's not just theologically correct. It's not just 67 00:03:58.319 --> 00:04:05.159 accurate regarding morals and regarding ethics. It's true history, real people, 68 00:04:05.319 --> 00:04:10.719 real places, real time. It is true historically. Now why 69 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:15.840 is that even important? Because the Bible tells us this, 70 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:24.319 God cannot lie. God cannot lie. A lot of people 71 00:04:24.319 --> 00:04:26.279 ask me all the time, is there anything God can do? Oh? Yeah, 72 00:04:26.279 --> 00:04:29.879 there's a lot of things God can't do. God cannot 73 00:04:30.319 --> 00:04:37.079 deny himself. God cannot not be God. God cannot lie 74 00:04:37.319 --> 00:04:41.040 because God is truth. In fact, the Bible says this 75 00:04:41.160 --> 00:04:44.879 on the screen Hebrews six eighteen. It is impossible for 76 00:04:44.959 --> 00:04:49.759 God to lie because God is truth. The only reason 77 00:04:49.839 --> 00:04:53.120 the universe works is because God is a God of truth, 78 00:04:53.319 --> 00:04:57.000 which means stuff is true all the time. Can you imagine, 79 00:04:57.040 --> 00:04:59.560 for instance, if the law of gravity only worked on 80 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:03.959 Tuesday and Thursday, it'd be a pretty weird thing. But 81 00:05:04.199 --> 00:05:08.519 the laws of physics are true. God bought them up, 82 00:05:09.000 --> 00:05:12.600 He created The laws of mathematics are true. God created 83 00:05:12.639 --> 00:05:16.639 the laws of mathematics on which the universe runs. And 84 00:05:16.680 --> 00:05:22.199 so God cannot lie. If this book has one lie 85 00:05:22.600 --> 00:05:25.319 in it, it's not a godly book. It's not a 86 00:05:25.319 --> 00:05:31.160 book of God, because God cannot lie. Psalm thirty three, 87 00:05:31.240 --> 00:05:35.000 verse four says this, the word of the Lord is right, 88 00:05:35.800 --> 00:05:39.360 and it is true. Now that's not only true and 89 00:05:39.560 --> 00:05:45.040 right about salvation, it's true and rite about history. I 90 00:05:45.040 --> 00:05:47.240 want you to give a warm welcome to Pastor Thomas. 91 00:05:47.279 --> 00:05:48.319 He talks to us about this. 92 00:05:54.720 --> 00:05:57.519 So how do we know that the Bible is historically accurate? Well, 93 00:05:57.680 --> 00:05:59.959 by the same way you know any other history is accurate. 94 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:02.920 You just go by the tests of good history. For instance, 95 00:06:02.959 --> 00:06:05.519 one of the ways that you test good history is 96 00:06:05.519 --> 00:06:08.680 is it from eyewitness accounts? And historian would go in 97 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:11.319 and say, is this written down by somebody who saw it, 98 00:06:11.519 --> 00:06:13.120 or is it second hand or third hand, or is 99 00:06:13.160 --> 00:06:15.680 it a legend written down one hundred years later. The 100 00:06:15.720 --> 00:06:20.079 Bible is primarily eyewitness accounts. That's why it's good history. 101 00:06:20.480 --> 00:06:24.160 Moses was there when the Red Seas split. Joshua was 102 00:06:24.199 --> 00:06:27.399 there when the walls of Jericho fell. The disciples of 103 00:06:27.480 --> 00:06:29.839 Jesus stood in the upper room, sat in the upper 104 00:06:29.920 --> 00:06:32.399 room and saw the resurrected Jesus appear. And then they 105 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:35.399 wrote down what happened, and we read about it. Matthew 106 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:37.399 was there and he wrote it down. John was there 107 00:06:37.439 --> 00:06:39.319 and he wrote it down. Peter was there. He told 108 00:06:39.360 --> 00:06:40.839 a guy by the name of Mark. He wrote it 109 00:06:40.879 --> 00:06:43.040 down in the Gospel of Mark. And Luke talked to 110 00:06:43.040 --> 00:06:45.519 all of them, including Jesus's mother, and heard about what 111 00:06:45.560 --> 00:06:49.680 had happened. So it's eyewitness accounts of what had happened. Now, 112 00:06:49.879 --> 00:06:52.319 the other test of history by which we know the 113 00:06:52.360 --> 00:06:55.600 Bible as accurate is the extreme care with which the 114 00:06:55.600 --> 00:06:59.319 Bible is copied. You may have heard people say, you know, 115 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:01.879 I'm sure was right when it was first written, but 116 00:07:01.959 --> 00:07:05.600 it's been passed down generation after generation, all these changes 117 00:07:05.639 --> 00:07:06.079 have come in. 118 00:07:06.199 --> 00:07:06.839 You ever heard that. 119 00:07:08.040 --> 00:07:10.399 If you hear that, you know someone hasn't just hasn't 120 00:07:10.439 --> 00:07:12.680 taken the time to study it, to look into it, 121 00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:14.959 because when you look into it, you find out the 122 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:17.759 extreme care with which the Bible is copied. The Old 123 00:07:17.800 --> 00:07:20.959 Testament copys the scribes, and when they would copy these 124 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:23.560 scrolls from one to the other, they would copy it 125 00:07:23.600 --> 00:07:25.480 like we would copy a xerox copy. It had to 126 00:07:25.519 --> 00:07:28.040 be exact, and they had this long list of rules 127 00:07:28.120 --> 00:07:30.439 that had to go by to make sure that it 128 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:32.839 was exact. Rules, like when they had a scroll, it 129 00:07:32.879 --> 00:07:36.160 had had a specified number of columns throughout it, so 130 00:07:36.160 --> 00:07:38.199 it would always be the same, and the link of 131 00:07:38.240 --> 00:07:40.319 those columns always had to be from forty eight to 132 00:07:40.399 --> 00:07:43.360 sixty in linked, and it always had to be thirty 133 00:07:43.439 --> 00:07:46.000 exactly thirty letters white, so they could always check it 134 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:48.279 out to make sure that it was always right. They 135 00:07:48.279 --> 00:07:50.439 had this rule that you had to copy letter by 136 00:07:50.519 --> 00:07:53.720 letter and not word by word, so that well, you know, 137 00:07:53.839 --> 00:07:56.079 on your phone, like it does text prediction and sends 138 00:07:56.120 --> 00:07:58.040 the wrong word to somebody, the word you didn't want 139 00:07:58.079 --> 00:08:00.480 to send. They wanted to make sure that didn't happened. 140 00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:02.600 So they could only copy letter by letter, and they 141 00:08:02.600 --> 00:08:04.879 went by these tests to make sure that it was right. 142 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:08.600 After they copied it. They knew in a book how 143 00:08:08.639 --> 00:08:11.319 many letters of the alphabet were in each book, So 144 00:08:11.399 --> 00:08:13.839 for instance, like our letter A, they would know that 145 00:08:13.839 --> 00:08:16.800 there were one thousand, six hundred and fifty three a's 146 00:08:16.839 --> 00:08:19.160 in this book, and if had one thousands to six 147 00:08:19.199 --> 00:08:21.120 hundred and fifty four when they counted it, they threw 148 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:24.360 the scroll away and they started over. They were so exact. 149 00:08:24.759 --> 00:08:28.279 They knew the middle letter of the first five books 150 00:08:28.279 --> 00:08:30.319 of the Bible, the Pentitude, they knew the middle letter 151 00:08:30.319 --> 00:08:32.919 of the whole Old Testament, and after they copied all 152 00:08:32.919 --> 00:08:34.879 of this, they would go to that middle letter and 153 00:08:34.919 --> 00:08:37.080 count forward and backward, and if it didn't come out 154 00:08:37.120 --> 00:08:39.039 exactly the number it should, they'd throw it away and 155 00:08:39.080 --> 00:08:42.559 they'd start over. That's how exact they were. There's a 156 00:08:42.600 --> 00:08:44.360 lot of reasons we can ways that we can see 157 00:08:44.360 --> 00:08:45.919 that they're exactly. But one of the ways we can 158 00:08:45.960 --> 00:08:48.600 see is through something called the Dead Sea Scrolls. We've 159 00:08:48.600 --> 00:08:50.879 all heard of those. What's so significant about the Dead 160 00:08:50.919 --> 00:08:54.720 Sea Scrolls? Well, the Dead Sea Scrolls were written about 161 00:08:54.720 --> 00:08:57.639 one hundred years before Jesus, and they have in them 162 00:08:57.960 --> 00:09:00.519 copies of all of the Old Testament book except Esther, 163 00:09:00.639 --> 00:09:03.879 all the other Old Testament books. When we found those scrolls, 164 00:09:04.360 --> 00:09:06.799 the earliest copies we had before that were from nine 165 00:09:06.879 --> 00:09:10.000 hundred years after Jesus of many of those books. So 166 00:09:10.039 --> 00:09:12.279 there's this thousand year gap. All of a sudden, we 167 00:09:12.320 --> 00:09:14.879 get to check out how much change came in in 168 00:09:14.919 --> 00:09:19.559 those thousand years. You don't wonder how much, about five percent, 169 00:09:19.600 --> 00:09:21.559 and that was almost all and just in the spelling 170 00:09:21.600 --> 00:09:24.879 of words, the spelling of names. Over a thousand years, 171 00:09:25.279 --> 00:09:27.360 those copies were proved to be right as they copied 172 00:09:27.360 --> 00:09:29.720 again and again and again and made it right. It's 173 00:09:29.720 --> 00:09:32.799 another proof of the historical accuracy of the Bible. Another 174 00:09:32.840 --> 00:09:36.399 proof is in archaeology. You look at archaeology and it 175 00:09:36.440 --> 00:09:38.639 proves again and again that the places and the people 176 00:09:38.679 --> 00:09:40.759 and all that the Bible talks about are true. It's 177 00:09:40.759 --> 00:09:42.840 not fiction. You can go and find these places. We've 178 00:09:42.879 --> 00:09:46.720 dug up these places, the Areopagus where Paul was, the 179 00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:49.320 theater in Athens where there was this riot, We've dug 180 00:09:49.360 --> 00:09:51.240 them up. We can see them today. The pool of 181 00:09:51.279 --> 00:09:54.000 Saloon where the blind men was healed, portions of Herod's temple, 182 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:56.240 all these places that are talked about in the Bible. 183 00:09:56.360 --> 00:09:58.799 They've dug them up. We can see them. The Book 184 00:09:58.799 --> 00:10:02.960 of Acts is all about his historical accuracy. Luke an 185 00:10:03.039 --> 00:10:04.960 historian as well as a doctor. As he wrote the 186 00:10:04.960 --> 00:10:09.000 Book of Acts, he talks about fifty four cities, thirty 187 00:10:09.080 --> 00:10:14.320 nine countries, and nine different islands, complete historical accuracy. One 188 00:10:14.360 --> 00:10:16.720 of the great things about how archaeology it works with 189 00:10:16.759 --> 00:10:20.519 the Bible is how it's again and again shown that 190 00:10:20.639 --> 00:10:23.960 actually the Bible is more accurate than our ideas of history. 191 00:10:24.320 --> 00:10:26.320 There's been many times when we've had an idea of 192 00:10:26.399 --> 00:10:29.720 what's historical and said, well, the Bible must be wrong, 193 00:10:29.759 --> 00:10:32.559 and the Bible's proved itself to be right. For instance, 194 00:10:32.879 --> 00:10:34.919 for a long time, historians said, well, we're not sure 195 00:10:34.960 --> 00:10:37.759 that guy named Solomon lived in the Old Testament, and 196 00:10:37.759 --> 00:10:40.600 we're certainly sure they didn't have horses like it talked about. 197 00:10:40.600 --> 00:10:42.879 They only had camels back then, so that can't be right. 198 00:10:43.159 --> 00:10:47.480 Until at Megiddo they discovered one of Solomon's chariot cities 199 00:10:47.759 --> 00:10:52.320 with thousands of stalls for guess what, horses, So the 200 00:10:52.320 --> 00:10:55.440 Bible was proved right. One of the greatest, probably the 201 00:10:55.440 --> 00:10:58.000 greatest example of that, is an empire called the Hittites. 202 00:10:58.600 --> 00:11:00.799 There's this whole empire called the hit Tights talked about 203 00:11:00.840 --> 00:11:03.039 in the Bible that was not talked about anywhere else. 204 00:11:03.440 --> 00:11:06.519 So for centuries historians said the Bible just made it up. 205 00:11:07.039 --> 00:11:09.399 Utel in the early nineteen hundreds, a professor by the 206 00:11:09.480 --> 00:11:13.720 name of Hugo Winkler discovered at Boguskoy ten thousand clay 207 00:11:13.759 --> 00:11:17.879 tablets at the capitol of guess what the Hittites. Now 208 00:11:17.919 --> 00:11:19.639 everyone believes in the hit Tits. In fact, during a 209 00:11:19.679 --> 00:11:21.720 break in the game. Today you can go on Wikipedia 210 00:11:21.840 --> 00:11:23.519 you can read about the hit Tites. 211 00:11:27.360 --> 00:11:32.000 Not only is the Bible historically accurate, it every time 212 00:11:32.679 --> 00:11:37.360 archaeology backs it up, but it is scientifically accurate. That's 213 00:11:37.399 --> 00:11:42.720 the second reason the Bible is scientifically accurate. Now, there 214 00:11:42.759 --> 00:11:47.600 is so much misunderstanding and boloney about this in the world. 215 00:11:47.600 --> 00:11:49.559 I want to spend a majority of time on this 216 00:11:49.679 --> 00:11:53.679 point because people who think the Bible is scientifically inaccurate 217 00:11:53.799 --> 00:11:56.679 mean a they've never studied the Bible, and b they 218 00:11:56.720 --> 00:11:57.840 probably don't know science. 219 00:11:59.000 --> 00:11:59.960 Because the truth is. 220 00:12:00.600 --> 00:12:04.120 God always sets up the laws of science, and he 221 00:12:04.159 --> 00:12:07.120 made sure that his word does not contradict the laws 222 00:12:07.159 --> 00:12:09.279 of science. Now, the Bible was not given to be 223 00:12:09.320 --> 00:12:12.320 a scientific textbook. Obviously, you don't study the Bible to 224 00:12:12.320 --> 00:12:15.519 build a rocket, and the Bible doesn't use scientific language. 225 00:12:15.639 --> 00:12:19.000 But the Bible never, never, never. 226 00:12:18.919 --> 00:12:23.440 Gives bad science quack science, not once in over sixteen 227 00:12:23.519 --> 00:12:26.159 hundred years in which this book was written, does it 228 00:12:26.279 --> 00:12:29.679 give bad science. In fact, it is always a head 229 00:12:29.879 --> 00:12:32.600 of science. There are things in the the Bible says 230 00:12:32.600 --> 00:12:35.480 were true that we just discovered one hundred years ago. 231 00:12:35.559 --> 00:12:39.799 Two hundred years ago, three hundred years ago, Johannes Kepler, 232 00:12:39.840 --> 00:12:42.480 the famous mathematician, the famous astronoer. 233 00:12:42.600 --> 00:12:42.759 You know. 234 00:12:42.879 --> 00:12:47.600 Kepler said, science is simply thinking God's thoughts after him. 235 00:12:49.159 --> 00:12:51.799 In other words, God established the laws of physics, and 236 00:12:51.799 --> 00:12:55.200 then we discover them. God established the laws of biology, 237 00:12:55.200 --> 00:12:58.080 and we discover them. God established the laws of mathematics, 238 00:12:58.080 --> 00:13:01.399 and we discover them. One of the reasons why we 239 00:13:01.480 --> 00:13:04.720 know the Bible can be trusted is because it's scientifically accurate. 240 00:13:04.720 --> 00:13:05.960 And the reason it's accurate is. 241 00:13:05.879 --> 00:13:09.519 Because the laws of the universe were invented by God, 242 00:13:10.720 --> 00:13:14.200 so he obviously understands them, even in years past when 243 00:13:14.240 --> 00:13:20.720 we didn't, because for thousands of years we've misunderstood different things. See, 244 00:13:20.720 --> 00:13:23.000 the one thing about truth is it never changes. But 245 00:13:23.039 --> 00:13:27.039 the one thing about science is it constantly changes. There's 246 00:13:27.080 --> 00:13:31.360 nothing more worthless than an obsolete science book. I guarantee 247 00:13:31.399 --> 00:13:33.399 you that the science book you had in the third 248 00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:35.559 grade is not being used in the third grade today, 249 00:13:36.480 --> 00:13:38.879 and a lot of things in that book are no 250 00:13:38.960 --> 00:13:43.159 longer believed or even taught. Nothing is more worthless than 251 00:13:43.159 --> 00:13:47.159 a five year old computer book. You can find them 252 00:13:47.159 --> 00:13:51.120 on any garage sale, and nobody wants them because things 253 00:13:51.159 --> 00:13:53.879 get out of date so fast. They get out of 254 00:13:53.960 --> 00:13:57.879 date so fast. Science things that we thought we believed, 255 00:13:57.919 --> 00:14:00.080 we now know more about it, and we go, oh well, 256 00:14:00.240 --> 00:14:02.480 In fact, in medical science it happens all the time. 257 00:14:02.519 --> 00:14:03.799 I had to go to a doctor this week and 258 00:14:04.159 --> 00:14:06.080 he was talking to me about a particular condition and 259 00:14:06.120 --> 00:14:07.919 I said, oh, well, then I assume we're going to 260 00:14:07.960 --> 00:14:09.440 do this, this and this, and he goes, oh, no, 261 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:09.879 we don't. 262 00:14:09.720 --> 00:14:12.080 Believe that anymore. I said, you got to be kidding me. 263 00:14:12.759 --> 00:14:15.120 Everybody knew that, don't know, we don't believe that anymore, 264 00:14:15.360 --> 00:14:17.480 and we don't use that in medicine anymore. How many 265 00:14:17.559 --> 00:14:20.919 articles have you read that now say that something you 266 00:14:20.960 --> 00:14:23.799 thought was good for you now causes you cancer, yes, right, 267 00:14:24.679 --> 00:14:26.480 Or stuff that they said it's fine for a pregnant 268 00:14:26.480 --> 00:14:28.440 woman to take, and then ten years later ago it's 269 00:14:28.440 --> 00:14:29.799 not fine. 270 00:14:29.840 --> 00:14:32.039 Science constantly changes. 271 00:14:33.200 --> 00:14:35.759 Do you know if you've ever been to Paris, you've 272 00:14:35.759 --> 00:14:40.320 probably gone to the Louver, the famous art museum and library, 273 00:14:40.360 --> 00:14:42.440 world class library. Do you know that in the Louver 274 00:14:42.480 --> 00:14:46.039 Library there's one section that has three and a half 275 00:14:46.240 --> 00:14:51.440 miles of obsolete science books. Three and a half miles 276 00:14:51.919 --> 00:14:55.519 because stuff they thought was scientifically fact fifteen hundred years 277 00:14:55.519 --> 00:14:57.679 ago was disproven a thousand years ago. And what we 278 00:14:57.720 --> 00:15:00.279 thought a thousand years ago was disproven seven ninety fifty 279 00:15:00.320 --> 00:15:02.120 years ago. And what we thought twenty five years ago 280 00:15:02.200 --> 00:15:04.240 was proven ten years ago. And what we thought ten 281 00:15:04.320 --> 00:15:08.120 years ago is now changed to today. And if you 282 00:15:08.200 --> 00:15:11.639 had been reading the Bible a thousand years ago or 283 00:15:11.720 --> 00:15:14.360 seven hundred years ago or five hundred years ago, what 284 00:15:14.480 --> 00:15:16.879 the Bible says would not have matched the science of 285 00:15:16.919 --> 00:15:23.279 that day because it wasn't up to date. God understands 286 00:15:23.279 --> 00:15:26.000 stuff even when we don't, and his rules don't change. 287 00:15:26.159 --> 00:15:28.000 The Bible says this and some one eight. 288 00:15:28.399 --> 00:15:32.600 Let every created thing that's the whole universe, give praise 289 00:15:32.639 --> 00:15:35.960 to the Lord, for he issued his command. God set 290 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:39.000 these rules in motion, the laws of thermodynamics, the laws 291 00:15:39.000 --> 00:15:42.480 of physics. He issued his command, and they came into being, 292 00:15:42.600 --> 00:15:46.039 and he established them forever and ever, and his orders 293 00:15:46.639 --> 00:15:51.200 will never be revoked. The second law of thermodynamics doesn't work. 294 00:15:51.120 --> 00:15:52.480 Today and not work tomorrow. 295 00:15:52.799 --> 00:15:56.960 It always works because it was true and it was 296 00:15:57.039 --> 00:15:58.320 made by God. 297 00:15:58.519 --> 00:16:01.200 Truth doesn't change, you know. 298 00:16:01.240 --> 00:16:04.840 In eighteen sixty one, there was a very famous book 299 00:16:04.879 --> 00:16:11.360 that came out called fifty one Incontrovertible Proofs that the 300 00:16:11.399 --> 00:16:16.440 Bible is scientifically inaccurate. It's a very famous book, Fifty 301 00:16:16.519 --> 00:16:21.480 one incontrovertible scientific facts that we know this is eighteen 302 00:16:21.519 --> 00:16:25.360 sixty one that the Bible does not agree with. And 303 00:16:25.440 --> 00:16:29.879 we know that the Bible is scientifically inaccurate. The only 304 00:16:29.919 --> 00:16:32.759 problem is today, one hundred and fify years later, you 305 00:16:32.759 --> 00:16:35.200 couldn't find a single science on the science on the 306 00:16:35.200 --> 00:16:39.159 planet who would agree with any one of those incontrovertible facts. 307 00:16:39.279 --> 00:16:46.080 They have all been disproven by science. Truth does not change. 308 00:16:46.279 --> 00:16:48.120 Now. One of the proofs. 309 00:16:47.919 --> 00:16:51.240 That we know that this book is not simply man made, 310 00:16:51.639 --> 00:16:56.000 that this book came from God, that God directed men 311 00:16:56.799 --> 00:17:01.120 and women to talk and speak and wrote write things down, 312 00:17:01.519 --> 00:17:03.559 and we know that it's the word of God. 313 00:17:03.799 --> 00:17:08.039 Is what's not in it? What's not in it? 314 00:17:08.559 --> 00:17:12.519 Because if this were a human book, you would expect 315 00:17:12.559 --> 00:17:17.119 it to be filled with scientific facts of the prevailing day, 316 00:17:18.160 --> 00:17:18.960 but they're not here. 317 00:17:19.160 --> 00:17:20.119 They're not in the book. 318 00:17:20.720 --> 00:17:25.400 For instance, for thousands and thousands of years people believed 319 00:17:25.400 --> 00:17:28.960 that the Earth was flat. It wasn't until Copernicus and 320 00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:32.519 Galileo and Columbus that people realize the world's not flat, 321 00:17:32.599 --> 00:17:37.519 it's round, it's a sphere, it's a ball. And so 322 00:17:38.039 --> 00:17:41.079 you would expect the Bible to say the Earth is flat, 323 00:17:41.279 --> 00:17:44.279 because it was in existence and being written during those 324 00:17:44.319 --> 00:17:46.720 thousands of years when everybody thought the world said not ever, 325 00:17:46.799 --> 00:17:48.640 single verse in the Bible says the Earth is flat, 326 00:17:49.960 --> 00:17:53.880 not at all. In fact, it says the exact opposite. 327 00:17:53.920 --> 00:17:58.240 Two thousand and six hundred years ago. God said this 328 00:17:58.400 --> 00:18:00.400 in the Book of Isaiah. 329 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:01.039 Forty, verse twenty two. 330 00:18:02.160 --> 00:18:08.559 God is enthroned above the sphere of the Earth. Two 331 00:18:09.079 --> 00:18:11.680 six hundred years ago. The Bible says the Earth is round, 332 00:18:12.559 --> 00:18:15.720 the Earth is a sphere, the Earth is a globe. 333 00:18:16.119 --> 00:18:19.880 Long before anybody knew it everybody when that was written, 334 00:18:20.119 --> 00:18:23.279 nobody believed it, but God said it, and it was 335 00:18:23.319 --> 00:18:29.039 true whether anybody believed it or not. For thousands of years, 336 00:18:29.160 --> 00:18:32.599 people believed the earth had to be held up by something, 337 00:18:33.440 --> 00:18:35.799 and depending on the culture you were in, you got 338 00:18:35.880 --> 00:18:38.319 certain different beliefs on what held it up. For instance, 339 00:18:38.319 --> 00:18:41.880 if you were Greek, in Greek culture, you believe that 340 00:18:41.960 --> 00:18:46.039 the world was held up by a giant named Atlas. Okay, 341 00:18:46.279 --> 00:18:48.319 we all know who Atlas is. That Atlas held up 342 00:18:48.359 --> 00:18:51.279 the world. Now, part of the Bible's written in Greek. 343 00:18:51.359 --> 00:18:54.680 Atlas isn't in the Bible. Why because it's not true. 344 00:18:55.160 --> 00:18:57.799 So it's not in the Bible. You would expect that 345 00:18:57.960 --> 00:18:59.960 during that time it would have somehow found its way 346 00:19:00.200 --> 00:19:03.640 into the Bible, but it's not there. For thousands of years, 347 00:19:04.319 --> 00:19:08.039 the Hindus believed that the Earth sat on the back 348 00:19:08.200 --> 00:19:12.400 of giant elephants, and that when the elephants moved, that's 349 00:19:12.400 --> 00:19:17.440 what caused earthquakes. Now they said, well, what did the 350 00:19:17.480 --> 00:19:18.359 elephants stand on. 351 00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:19.559 I'm not making this up. 352 00:19:19.599 --> 00:19:24.240 You can find in any science or encyclopedia. They believed 353 00:19:24.279 --> 00:19:26.559 that the giant elephants stood on the back of a 354 00:19:26.599 --> 00:19:31.000 giant sea turtle, and the giant sea turtle stood on 355 00:19:31.079 --> 00:19:35.119 the back of a giant sea serpent who swam through 356 00:19:35.119 --> 00:19:36.160 a cosmic sea. 357 00:19:37.440 --> 00:19:38.920 Now, that was the prevailing. 358 00:19:38.519 --> 00:19:42.400 Attitude in the world for hundreds, if not thousands of years. 359 00:19:42.480 --> 00:19:44.559 It's not in the Bible, even though the Bible was 360 00:19:44.599 --> 00:19:47.279 being written during this time. Why because the Bible leaves 361 00:19:47.279 --> 00:19:52.359 out the lies. The Bible tells us that Moses was 362 00:19:52.440 --> 00:19:56.680 skilled and schooled in all of the wisdom of the 363 00:19:56.720 --> 00:20:01.160 ancient Egyptians because Moses was adopted as the son of 364 00:20:01.240 --> 00:20:04.720 Pharaoh's daughter, so he went to the best schools in 365 00:20:04.839 --> 00:20:08.039 ancient Egypt and was taught what was the prevailing science 366 00:20:08.119 --> 00:20:11.559 of that day. Now, the Egyptians were flat out brilliant. 367 00:20:12.200 --> 00:20:19.079 They built the pyramids, They were masters at architecture, at engineering, 368 00:20:19.160 --> 00:20:21.519 at astronomy, at a none other things. But they were 369 00:20:21.559 --> 00:20:24.279 The ancient Egyptians were dead wrong on what held up 370 00:20:24.319 --> 00:20:28.079 the earth because ancient Egypt believed that the earth was 371 00:20:28.119 --> 00:20:34.039 held up by five pillars. Certainly Moses was schooled in 372 00:20:34.079 --> 00:20:36.240 that science because he went to the best schools in 373 00:20:36.279 --> 00:20:40.599 the land as Pharaoh's grandson. And yet not once in 374 00:20:40.640 --> 00:20:44.000 scripture do you find the earth is held up by 375 00:20:44.039 --> 00:20:44.640 five pillars. 376 00:20:44.640 --> 00:20:44.799 Why? 377 00:20:44.839 --> 00:20:48.119 Because it's not true, And so it didn't make it 378 00:20:48.160 --> 00:20:50.720 into the Bible. The prevailing science of the day didn't 379 00:20:50.720 --> 00:20:54.559 make it there. In fact, the oldest known writing to 380 00:20:54.680 --> 00:20:58.240 man is likely the Book of Job. It's the oldest 381 00:20:58.319 --> 00:21:02.279 literature in existence that we know about. Job was the 382 00:21:02.319 --> 00:21:05.079 first book written in the Bible. The books the Bible 383 00:21:05.079 --> 00:21:08.279 are not in chronological order. Job is the oldest book 384 00:21:08.960 --> 00:21:13.160 and in Job twenty six, verse seven, the oldest known 385 00:21:13.359 --> 00:21:19.119 literature in the human race. It says this God stretches 386 00:21:19.160 --> 00:21:27.000 the sky over empty space and hangs the earth on nothing. 387 00:21:28.359 --> 00:21:34.920 Who told job? How did he know? That everybody knows 388 00:21:34.960 --> 00:21:37.519 the earth is flat and it's on the back of pillars. 389 00:21:38.799 --> 00:21:43.279 It's not why because the Bible only always tells the truth. 390 00:21:45.920 --> 00:21:48.640 I'm reinforcing this because I want you. It is sheer 391 00:21:48.680 --> 00:21:52.079 nonsense to say that the Bible is scientifically an accurate. 392 00:21:52.279 --> 00:21:53.640 That means you just don't know the Bible. 393 00:21:55.200 --> 00:22:01.440 For instance, for years, it was the accepted science that 394 00:22:01.480 --> 00:22:04.319 they were about one thousand stars in the universe, and 395 00:22:04.359 --> 00:22:06.839 that they could be counted, that the number of stars 396 00:22:06.880 --> 00:22:10.079 were finite. In fact, one hundred and fifty years BC, 397 00:22:10.680 --> 00:22:14.440 a guy named Hiparcas counted him, and he wrote a 398 00:22:14.559 --> 00:22:18.200 very famous dissertation one hundred and fifty years BC saying 399 00:22:18.720 --> 00:22:22.920 that there are one thousand and twenty two stars in 400 00:22:23.000 --> 00:22:23.680 the universe. 401 00:22:24.880 --> 00:22:27.920