1. Is from God The Five Bible Proofs
“All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.” 2 Timothy 3:16-17
Many skeptics in the world today
The Bible has no fear of investigation
Prove that the Bible is from God

2. destroy belief in the Bible
The Devil wants To
destroy belief in the Bible
“Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.” Luke 8:12
“If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man’s belief in the Bible.”
Voltaire

3. Proof # 1 The wonder of The Bible’s Formation
66 books written over 1500 years by about 40 men
If product of man then by now he would have produced another one.
The Unity of the Bible -- one continuous story
No contradictions
No Mistakes

4. Preservation of the Bible
Proof # 2
The Miraculous
Preservation of the Bible
Isaiah 40:8 NKJV “The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever.“
Matthew 24:35 “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.”
I Peter 1: “For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: 25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.”

5. Preservation of the Bible
Proof # 2
The Miraculous
Preservation of the Bible
Diocletian [303 a.d.]- every copy of the Bible be burned
Voltaire, “while it took 12 men to write Christianity up, I will show that it takes but one man to write it down.”
Voltaire “100 years from his death you would only be able to find a copy of the Bible in a museum.”
Ingersoll “In fifteen years I will have this book in the morgue.”

8. Proof # 3 Archaeological Discoveries Hittites - Gen. 15:20 ~~~ 1906
Pilate Governor of Judea - Mt. 27:2 ~~ 1961
Cyrenius Governor of Syria - Luke 2:2 ~~ Coins
Writing - Moses -
Rosetta Stone – 1799 – 2000 years before
Code of Hammurabi – 1901 – 500 years before

9. Rosetta Stone
Code of Hammurabi

10. Proof # 4 Scientific Accuracy FACT: Earth held up by invisible forces
Theory - earth rested on back of 7 elephants
Copernicus Proved
“He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.” Job 26:7

11. Proof # 4 Scientific Accuracy FACT: The earth is round
Theory - earth is flat or square
Magellan Proved
“It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:” Isa. 40:22

12. Proof # 4 Scientific Accuracy FACT: Life is in the blood
Theory - Source of disease - “bloodletting”
Harvey Proved life principle in blood
Gen 9:4 “But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.”
Lev. 17:11 “For the life of the flesh is in the blood:”

13. Proof # 4 Scientific Accuracy Pathfinder of the seas
FACT: The oceans have natural lanes
Matthew Fontaine Murray
“The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.” Psalms 8:8
He went out and found those paths of the seas
Pathfinder of the seas

14. Proof # 4 Scientific Accuracy FACT: Empty place in the North
Astronomers have discovered a great empty place
Earth orbit = 156,000,000 miles
Opening is 90,000 times as wide
Job 26:7 “He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.”

15. Proof # 4 Scientific Accuracy Bible writers were not men of science
If the Bible was just from men then it would have the scientific beliefs of the times when they wrote!
When the Bible touches on scientific points it is always correct !

16. Proof # 5 Fulfilled Prophecy
PROPHECY: “they pierced my hands and my feet.” Psalms 22:16
EVENT: Crucifixion of Christ
FULFILLED: “Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst.” John 19:18

17. Proof # 5 Fulfilled Prophecy
PROPHECY: “Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.” Isa.7:14
EVENT: Christ born of a Virgin
FULFILLED: “Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with Us.” Matt. 1:23

18. Proof # 5 Fulfilled Prophecy
PROPHECY: “Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats,” 1 Tim. 4:3
EVENT: Doctrines of forbidding to marry and abstaining from meats
FULFILLED: Roman Catholic Church

19. The
Bible
Is from God
Never been a book equal to or better than the Bible
If it was from man then he would have produced another one or a better one
The Holy Spirit, through man, produced the Bible !
The Bible has transformed humanity wherever it has gone !

20. The
Bible
Is from God
“This great book is the best gift God has given to man, but for it we could not know right from wrong.” Abraham Lincoln

21. The
Bible
Is from God
2 Peter 1:21 (KJV) “For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.”
2 Peter 1:21 (ESV) “For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.”

22. Is from God Formation Preservation Archaeological Scientific Prophecy
The
Bible
Is from God
Formation
Preservation
Archaeological
Scientific
Prophecy

23. Sermon by Arthur Pigman
Evans Church of Christ
515 Gibbs Road
Evans, Ga
Sunday Morning August 28, 2011