Why should I base my Life on an out of date Book written 2000 years ago?

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Why should I base my Life on an out of date Book written 2000 years ago?

The Number of Translations The Talmudim The Massoretes New Testament Preservation

AuthorWhen Written Earliest Copy Time Span # of Copies Caesar BC AD 9001,000 years 10 Plato BC AD 9001,200 years 7 TacitusAD 100AD 11001,000 years 20 Aristotle BC AD 11001,400 years 49

AuthorWhen Written Earliest Copy Time Span # of Copies Homer (Iliad) 900 BC400 BC500 years643 New Test’t AD AD years 24,630+

So What? But Is The Bible True? Evidence from Science

What the Bible says:What people thought:What we know now: Earth is a sphereEarth is a flat diskEarth is a sphere Number of stars = more than a billion Number of stars = 1,100Number of stars = more than a billion Every Star is differentAll Stars are the sameEvery Star is different Light is in motionLight is fixed in spaceLight is in motion Air has weightAir is weightlessAir has weight Winds blow in cyclonesWinds blow straightWinds blow in cyclones Blood is a source of life and healing Sick people must be bledBlood is a source of life and healing

Evidence from Archaeology Evidence from Prophecy

Ezekiel made an equally startling prediction about the city state of Tyre (in modern day Lebanon). He prophesied that… Many nations would come against Tyre (Ezekial 26:2). Nebuchadnezzar would destroy the city (Ezekial 26:4). The city would be scraped bare (Ezekial 26:4). Fishing nets would be spread over the site (Ezekial 26:5). The stones of the city would be thrown into the sea (Ezekial 26:12). The city would never be rebuilt (Ezekial 26:14).

Peter Stoner said, “...we find that the chance that any man might have lived down to the present time and fulfilled eight prophecies is 1 x in 100,000,000,000,000,000