1. So You Can Be Certain Pastor Jon Fulton January 13, 2018
Series: Introductions

3. Many people have set out to write accounts about the events that have been fulfilled among us. They used the eyewitness reports circulating among us from the early disciples. Having carefully investigated everything from the beginning, I also have decided to write an accurate account for you, most honorable Theophilus, so you can be certain of the truth of everything you were taught.
--Luke 1:1-4 (NLT)

5. 1. You can be certain the Bible is true, because of the variety and consistency of its human authors

7. 2. You can be certain that the Bible is true, because of the validity of eyewitness testimony from its human authors

9. We did not follow cleverly invented stories when we
told you about the power and coming of our
Lord Jesus, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
--2 Peter 1:16 (NIV)

11. We proclaim to you the one who existed from the beginning, whom we have heard and seen.
We saw him with our own eyes and touched him
with our own hands. He is the Word of Life.
--1 John 1:1 (NIV)

13. 3. You can be certain that the Bible is true, because of the historical accuracies from its human authors

15. --Luke 1:1-3 (NLT) Many people have set out to write accounts about
the events that have been fulfilled among us. They used
the eyewitness reports circulating among us from the
early disciples. Having carefully investigated everything from the beginning, I also have decided
to write an accurate account for you...
--Luke 1:1-3 (NLT)

17. --Isaiah 40:8 (NLT) The grass withers and the flowers fade but the
word of our God stands forever.
--Isaiah 40:8 (NLT)

19. Many people have set out to write accounts about the events that have been fulfilled among us. They used the eyewitness reports circulating among us from the early disciples. Having carefully investigated everything from the beginning, I also have decided to write an accurate account for you, most honorable Theophilus, so you can be certain of the truth of everything you were taught.
--Luke 1:1-4 (NLT)

21. --John 5:39-40 (NLT) You search the Scriptures because you think they
give you eternal life. But the Scriptures point to me!
Yet you refuse to come to me to receive this life.
--John 5:39-40 (NLT)

23. So You Can Be Certain Pastor Jon Fulton January 13, 2018
Series: Introductions