Getting your Head around the Bible 3 Without

Getting your Head around the Bible #3 Without error? Really? Numbers 23: 19

Getting your Head around the Bible #3 Without error? Really? Numbers 23: 19 House MD: “Everybody lies” Numbers 23: 19 God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. John 14: 26 the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. Biblical Inerrancy

Getting your Head around the OLD TESTAMENT Bible #3 Without error? Really? Numbers 23: 19

Getting your Head around the Bible #2 Who decided what’s in there? Luke 11: 45 -54 OLD TESTAMENT Jesus 0 AD Isaiah written 700 BC Oldest complete copy 916 AD 2015 AD 1600 yrs – big gap! Dead Sea Scrolls 125 BC Preserved almost perfectly

Getting your Head around the Bible #3 Without error? Really? Numbers 23: 19 NEW TESTAMENT • 20, 000 ancient MSS in total • >1 M quotes in the Church Fathers • Far, far more than any other ancient document But it wasn’t copied carefully. . .

Getting your Head around the Bible #3 Without error? Really? Numbers 23: 19

Getting your Head around the Bible #3 Without error? Really? Numbers 23: 19 Is my English Bible a good translation? John 3: 16 Thus for loved God the world, so that the Son the only he gave, in order that every the believing one in him not should perish but should have life eternal. (literal) For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. (NIV) This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. (The Message) Translate the words Interlinear NIV MSG Translate the ideas

Getting your Head around the Bible #3 Without error? Really? Numbers 23: 19 Is my English Bible a good translation? 1 Kings 2: 10 Then David slept with his fathers and was buried (ESV) Then David rested with his ancestors and was buried (NIV) Then David died and was buried with his ancestors (NLT) Translate the words Interlinear KJV ESV NIV NLT MSG Translate the ideas

Getting your Head around the Bible #3 Without error? Really? Numbers 23: 19 For Jesus, misunderstandings of Scripture come about because humans are muddled, rather than because the Bible is. Andrew Wilson