1. Life’s most important question? What must I do to be saved? Is Jesus the Son of God? The validity of the answer depends upon the credibility of the source to which we appeal. Upon what will you base your answer to these and other significant spiritual questions?

2. Life’s most important question? What must I do to be saved? Is Jesus the Son of God? The validity of the answer depends upon the credibility of the source to which we appeal. Upon what will you base your answer to these and other significant spiritual questions?

3. Life’s most important question? Why should I take anything in the Bible seriously? What is it about this book that causes me to appeal to it? The validity of the answer depends upon the credibility of the source to which we appeal. Upon what will you base your answer to these and other significant spiritual questions?

4. Life’s most important question? The Bible has a divine origin. God revealed it. The validity of the answer depends upon the credibility of the source to which we appeal. Upon what will you base your answer to these and other significant spiritual questions?

5. Life’s most important question? Does the Bible have a divine origin? Did God reveal it? The validity of the answer depends upon the credibility of the source to which we appeal. Upon what will you base your answer to these and other significant spiritual questions? ?

6. Did God author both the Old and New Testaments?

7. Is God the Divine author of the Old Testament? What is the best source of evidence in answering this question?

8. Is God the Divine author of the Old Testament? Jesus

9. Jesus OT inspiration OT prophecy OT history

10. Jesus and OT Inspiration Men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God 2 Peter 1:20-21

11. The Law of Moses Gen.-Deut. The Prophets Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, 12 minor The Psalms Psalms, Proverbs Job, S of S, Ruth, Lam., Ecc., Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, 1-2 Chronicles Luke 24:44 Claims of Inspiration---Law Genesis Exodus (24:4; 32:16) Leviticus (1:1) Numbers (1:1) Deuteronomy (4:2) The Scriptures Matt. 21:42

12. The Law of Moses Gen.-Deut. The Prophets Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, 12 minor The Psalms Psalms, Proverbs Job, S of S, Ruth, Lam., Ecc., Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, 1-2 Chronicles Luke 24:44 Claims of Inspiration---Law Genesis Exodus (24:4; 32:16) Leviticus (1:1) Numbers (1:1) Deuteronomy (4:2) The Scriptures Matt. 21:42 And Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord 24:4 And the tablets were God’s work 32:16 Then the Lord called to Moses and spoke to him 1:1 Then the Lord spoke to Moses 1:1 The commandments of the Lord which I command you 4:2

13. The Law of Moses Gen.-Deut. The Prophets Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, 12 minor The Psalms Psalms, Proverbs Job, S of S, Ruth, Lam., Ecc., Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, 1-2 Chronicles Luke 24:44 Claims of Inspiration---Law Genesis Exodus (24:4; 32:16) Leviticus (1:1) Numbers (1:1) Deuteronomy (4:2) The Scriptures Matt. 21:42 What about Genesis? There was a “book of Moses” (Neh. 13:1; 2 Chron. 35:12) & Genesis was considered to be part of it Whatever can be said of one book in this “set” can be said of all

14. The Law of Moses Gen.-Deut. The Prophets Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, 12 minor The Psalms Psalms, Proverbs Job, S of S, Ruth, Lam., Ecc., Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, 1-2 Chronicles Luke 24:44 Claims of Inspiration---Prophets Thus says the Lord …3,308 times They made their hearts like flint so that they could not hear the law and the words which the LORD of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets; therefore great wrath came from the LORD of hosts. Zechariah 7:12 You bore with them for many years, and admonished them by Your Spirit through Your prophets, yet they would not give ear. Therefore You gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands. Nehemiah 9:30 The Scriptures Matt. 21:42

15. The Law of Moses Gen.-Deut. The Prophets Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, 12 minor The Psalms Psalms, Proverbs Job, S of S, Ruth, Lam., Ecc., Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, 1-2 Chronicles Luke 24:44 Claims of Inspiration---Psalms The Holy Spirit foretold by the mouth of David… Acts 1:16 The psalmist said Psalm 95:7 The Holy Spirit said Hebrews 3:7 The psalmist said Psalm 45:6 God said Hebrews 1:8 The psalmist said Psalm 102:25,27 God said Hebrews 1:10-12 The Scriptures Matt. 21:42

16. The Law of Moses Gen.-Deut. The Prophets Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, 12 minor The Psalms Psalms, Proverbs Job, S of S, Ruth, Lam., Ecc., Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, 1-2 Chronicles Luke 24:44 Spoken to you by God Matt. 22:31-32, refers to Exodus 3:6 The scripture says Jo. 7:42, is the same as God says Micah 5:2; 1:1 How does David in the Spirit call him Lord? Matt. 22:43 The Scriptures Matt. 21:42

17. The Law of Moses Gen.-Deut. The Prophets Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, 12 minor The Psalms Psalms, Proverbs Job, S of S, Ruth, Lam., Ecc., Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, 1-2 Chronicles Luke 24:44  Jesus quoted from each of the three sections of the O.T. scriptures.  Each time He attributed the ultimate source as being God, i.e., it was God speaking through men, or inspiration.  Jesus considered the O.T. to be inspired, revealed by God. The Scriptures Matt. 21:42

18. Jesus and OT Prophecy All things which are written in…the prophets…must be fulfilled Lk. 24:44

19. ProphetFulfillmentDate B.C. David Psalms 41:9Jo. 13:18 1,000 Isaiah 61:1Lk. 4:16-21 750 6:9-10Matt. 13:14-15 Daniel9:27; 11:31; 12:11 Matt. 24:15 605-530 Zechariah 13:7Matt. 26:31 520 Malachi 3:1Matt. 11:10 445-432

20. 6052:362:392:392:402:445497:47:57:67:7-8,24-255478:3,4,208:5,21-228:23-2553611:1-211:3-411:511:611:21-3511:32b-3511:36-45 Babylon 626-539 BC Media-Persia 539-330 Greece 330-63 Alexander the Great Egypt 323 Egypt 323 Syria 204 Syria 204 Antiochus Epiphanes 175 Antiochus Epiphanes 175 Maccabees 168 Rome 63 God’s kingdom 33 AD

21. Jesus and OT History The preaching of Jonah Lk. 11:32

22. OT Events Creation Gen. 1-2 Ark and flood Gen. 6-8 Ark and flood Gen. 6-8 Sodom/Gomorrah Gen. 19 Lot's wife Gen. 19 Manna Ex. 16 Brazen serpent Num. 21 Jonah and fish Jonah 1-2 Jesus’ reference Mk. 13:19 Matt. 24:37-39 Lk. 17:29 Lk. 17:32 Jo. 6:31-32 Jo. 3:14 Matt. 12:39-41

23. The Law of Moses Gen.-Deut. The Prophets Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, 12 minor The Psalms Psalms, Proverbs Job, S of S, Ruth, Lam., Ecc., Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, 1-2 Chronicles Luke 24:44 How do you explain Jesus’ statements regarding OT inspiration OT history OT prophecy? 1-Did He know these were not so? Then he was LIAR 2-Did He think they were true? Then he was a FOOL 3-Was He sane and telling the truth? The Scriptures Matt. 21:42

24. To believe in the sanity and veracity of Jesus is to believe God is the Divine author of the Old Testament

25. Can the same be said of the New Testament? Once again we look primarily to Jesus for evidence.

26. Evidence Jesus promised Divine inspiration in preaching and teaching New Testament writers claimed they were inspired New Testament authors placed their writings on same level as Old Testament writers

27. The promises of Jesus It is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you Matt. 10:19-20; Mk. 13:11 He who hears you hears me Lk. 10:16 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you. Jo. 14:26

28. The promises of Jesus 26 When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify about Me, 27 and you will testify also, because you have been with Me from the beginning. Jo. 15:26-27 26 When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify about Me, 27 and you will testify also, because you have been with Me from the beginning. Jo. 15:26-27 The Holy Spirit…will guide you into all the truth Jo. 16:13

29. The claims of NT writers: We are inspired If anyone thinks he is a prophet or spiritual, let him recognize that the things which I write to you are the Lord's commandment. 1 Cor. 14:37 For I would have you know, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man. For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ. Gal. 1:11-12

30. The claims of NT writers: We are inspired that by revelation there was made known to me the mystery, as I wrote before in brief. By referring to this, when you read you can understand my insight into the mystery of Christ, which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit; Eph. 3:3-5

31. The claims of NT writers: Our writings same as OT as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction. 2 Peter 3:16 “his letters” are a reference to the epistles of Paul “the rest of the scriptures” are the O.T. scriptures In this passage, Peter places all of Paul’s letters into the same category as the O.T. scriptures: They were revealed by God

32. The claims of NT writers: Our writings same as OT as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction. 2 Peter 3:16 This passage also establishes the early existence of a “canon” of NT scripture (the epistles of Paul), long before various church councils.

33. The claims of NT writers: Our writings same as OT The elders who rule well are to be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching. For the Scripture says, "YOU SHALL NOT MUZZLE THE OX WHILE HE IS THRESHING," and “The laborer is worthy of his wages.“ 1 Timothy 5:17-18 “The Scripture says” is followed immediately by a quotation from Deuteronomy 25:4 “and” means that what follows is also “scripture” and the quotation is from Luke 10:7

34. The claims of NT writers: Our writings same as OT The elders who rule well are to be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching. For the Scripture says, "YOU SHALL NOT MUZZLE THE OX WHILE HE IS THRESHING," and “The laborer is worthy of his wages.“ 1 Timothy 5:17-18 Paul claims that at least one gospel was inspired (and probably Acts) as Luke wrote both. He, along with Peter (2 Peter 3:16), indicates an early NT canon: Paul’s epistles, Luke and probably Acts

35. Jesus’ promise of Divine inspiration of NT writers was fulfilled Evidence of New Testament writers claims of being Divinely inspired & their documents being on a level with OT scripture should be taken seriously.

36. The Bible lives up to its claims It is the Divinely inspired word of God