Evidence. That the Bible is God's Inspired Word
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This episode of Living Word Community Church's 'Evidence' series presents a comprehensive case for the Bible being the inspired Word of God. The host, drawing from historical figures like Lincoln, Washington, and Newton, as well as modern thinkers like Jordan Peterson, establishes a foundation of credibility. He then outlines eight key lines of evidence: fulfilled prophecy (including 2,500 predictions, with 300+ messianic prophecies fulfilled by Jesus), a unified and continuous theme of salvation across 1600 years and 40+ authors, manuscript reliability (with over 5,800 complete manuscripts and the Dead Sea Scrolls confirming textual accuracy), scientific foreknowledge (such as the earth's roundness and the expanding universe), archaeological confirmation of biblical places and figures (Jericho, Nineveh, Pontius Pilate, the House of David), the transformative power of Scripture in lives, and self-attestation—where the Bible repeatedly claims to be God’s word. The host concludes with a logical argument modeled after C.S. Lewis: if Jesus claimed to be God, He must be either a liar, a lunatic, or Lord—making the Bible’s divine origin a reasonable conclusion. The message calls believers to not only internalize this truth but to actively share it with others.
The Bible contains over 2,500 prophecies, with 300+ fulfilled by Jesus—mathematically improbable without divine authorship.
The Bible’s unity across 40 authors, 1600 years, and three continents points to a single divine author.
The Dead Sea Scrolls confirm the Bible’s textual accuracy over 1,100 years after original writing.
Scientific insights in the Bible (e.g., earth’s roundness, expanding universe) predate modern discovery.
Archaeology continues to confirm biblical locations and figures, such as Pontius Pilate and the House of David.
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Introduction: The Case for the Bible's Divine Inspiration
The host introduces the episode as part of a series on evidence, framing the Bible as God’s inspired Word and setting the stage with quotes from historical and intellectual figures like Lincoln, Washington, and Newton.
Evidence 1: Prophecy – The Future Told in Advance
“If Jesus had just fulfilled eight of the prophecies, the chances are one in ten to the 17th power. And that is one. And you can look at all the zeros there. That's a lot of zeros.”
Evidence 2: A Unified, Flowing Theme Across Time and Authors
The host emphasizes the Bible’s remarkable unity despite being written over 1600 years by 40+ authors across three continents and three languages. The consistent theme of salvation—from preparation in the Old Testament to fulfillment in Revelation—is presented as evidence of divine authorship.
Evidence 3: Manuscript Reliability and the Dead Sea Scrolls
“When they compared the two scrolls there were... I'll say this. I'm going to use questionable minor differences like accent marks that went one way when it should have gone the other way but... What made them very questionable, and you can see here the scroll, right? It's on the papyrus paper. There were indentations. There were things that were bent. There were scratches on it. So the things that were brought into question didn't change the very message of the scroll.”
Evidence 4: Scientific Foreknowledge in the Bible
The host presents biblical statements that align with modern science—such as the earth being round, air having weight, stars being innumerable, and the universe expanding—despite ancient scientific beliefs to the contrary.
“Either, right, they were all lying. The writers, was Moses lying? Ezekiel is lying. Daniel is lying, right? Samuel is lying. Joshua is lying. Peter, Paul, right? They're all lying. Or they're crazy. The book was written by a bunch of lunatics who were going around saying this is what God told me. This is God's inspired and errant revelation. So we would say that they're lunatics. Or this is truly the word of the Lord.”
“If Jesus had just fulfilled eight of the prophecies, the chances are one in ten to the 17th power. And that is one. And you can look at all the zeros there. That's a lot of zeros.”
“The Bible is true in a very strange way. It's true in that it provides the basis for truth itself, and so it's like a meta-truth.”
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