The Reliability of The Bible

The Authentic Word

Reliability - 2Ti 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

If the Bible is not reliable then it is just another book of antiquity. Don Stehart a teacher and author once said, "The Bible can stand the test of the most rigorous academic assault and will prove to be intellectually satisfying to anyone honestly investigating the evidence."

1. Documented -Act 1:3 To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God: I think we can say this about The Bible as well isn't Jesus called by John "The Word"

Many infallible proofs

A. The Crying Stones Archeologically - Jesus upon being rebuked by the religious leader of his day, for the praises coming from the men women and children, told his reprimanders that if the people would be quiet that the stones would cry out. We are finding that in the midst of quieting by mainstream media, quote unquote religious organizations, political power and even public opinion the rocks are literally screaming out the reliability of the Bible

1. Discoveries that prove the Bible. Archaeologist have been diligently digging for 150 years at thousand's of sites through out the Middle East.

A. The Ark

1. Marco Polo Wrote about seeing it 700 years on a mountain in Armenia

2. Russian Troops during ww1 Czar Nicolas II in 1916 sent troops up the mountain too see it they took photo's and made drawings of it as well as looking inside. These photos were lost when the Czar was murdered in an atheistic government take over.

3,They found hundreds of rooms

4. Found it perfectly preserved not only from the snow but because of the kind of wood it was made from. It never rots.

B. How about Sodom and Gomorrah -

1. Southeast of the Dead sea

2. Found burial buildings used to bury their dead destroyed by fire that started on the roof. What is so amazing about that. A conquering nation wouldn't have burned a burial building as they were already dead. With the fire starting on the roof is a good indicator that the fire came from the sky.

C. Joseph?

1. A tomb was found in Goshen it was empty except for a statue with definite Semite markings. The hair color was different, the skin color was different marking it as a foreigner. It was obviously a tomb to someone the Egyptians admired greatly however it was a foreigner. It had been broken all that was left was the head. The rest of the tomb was empty. The remains were gone as well as nearly everything else. Robbers who would take the valuables from Egyptian tombs would either leave the mummy left untouched or burn the body to reveal gold placed on it, leaving charred remains, in this tomb there was no evidence of any burning Gen 50:24 Just like the Bible says. The Bible goes on to say that they took the remains of Joseph and buried them in Shecam When experts opened the tomb they found a mummified body in the Egyptian style as well as a sword that Egyptian officials wore.

D. Jericho - A huge city impossible by all human standpoints to conquer without a long seige and terrible bloodshed.

1. It was considered for years and years a myth

A. 1950’s Kathleen Kenyon who went to dig at the site wrote, “It is a sad fact that the town walls of the Late Bronze Age, within which period the attack by the Israelites must fall by any dating, not a trace remains… The excavation of Jericho, therefore has thrown no light on the walls of Jericho of which the destruction is so vividly described in the Book of Joshua.”

"Archeologist can help us with historical events to demonstrate that yes these event happened as described in the Bible but that's as far as arc can go. Archeology is not going to prove the existence of God or the miraculous events recorded in the Bible, but arc can demonstrate the historical reliability of the Biblical text"

Bryant Wood Archeologist

There exists today not one unquestionable find of archeology that proves the Bible to in error at any point. Dr. Henry M Morris Scientist and founder of ICR