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PDA Introduction (Why are we doing this?)
What is the purpose of this series?
Yes, I want you to know how to defend your faith.
But there’s something even more important.
In Luke 9:51, Jesus is on His way to Jerusalem and He sends some of them ahead to get a room for the night in a samaritan village, but they reject them.
They come back, tell the news, and James and John ask, ‘Do you want us to call fire down from Heaven and consume them?’
Jesus responds, ‘You do not know what spirit you belong to, for the Son of Man did not come to destroy people’s lives, but to save them.’
What was last week’s lesson on?
Love; that wasn’t an accident.
The most important thing for you to remember from this series and practice during it is not how to defend your argument, but how to do it with love.
In other words, your goal is not to win the argument.
Your goal is always to win the person.
Sometimes both are not always possible.
Rules:
I will open by stating my argument with a little bit of fuel.
My argument must come from the Bible.
After I present my argument, you’re allowed to start defending Christianity.
Your argument must come from the Bible; you’re allowed to have notes, but those notes must be from a source that uses the Bible.
I’m allowed to lie to you; but if you ask me if I’m lying I’ll tell you honestly.
**The truth is never afraid to be questioned.
A lie never likes to be challenged.**
If the majority either wishes to give up, y’all win, or we run out of time, I will open a Q & A for any of you.
If I feel an argument is at a dead end, either by me losing or you going silent, I’ll open a new one and we’ll address the old one during the Q&A.
To make things more efficient, I will only pick those who raise their hand.
If you have a thought to add, raise your hand.
Any questions?
Let the game begin.
Opening Argument: Attacking the Authors
Who wrote Isaiah?
Isaiah.
Who wrote Luke?
Luke.
Can anyone tell me who wrote the Bible?
Who physically put their ink to the parchment?
Men or God?
Ok, so what does the Bible say about men?
“The heart is more deceitful than anything else, and incurable—who can understand it?”
(Jeremiah 17:9, CSB)
“The Lord said: These people approach me with their speeches to honor me with lip-service, yet their hearts are far from me, and human rules direct their worship of me.” (Isaiah 29:13, CSB)
“For from the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, slander.”
(Matthew 15:19, CSB)
So we’re supposed to devote our entire lives to a book written by people when the book says that people are evil, but it also says that the book is good.
I’m here to tell you that it sounds to me like the Bible itself is unreliable as the Word of God.
It sounds more like imperfect, evil people wrote it.
Counter to ‘the authors are well known biblical people’:
Please turn with me to Proverbs 31.
“The words of King Lemuel, a pronouncement that his mother taught him:” (Proverbs 31:1, CSB)
Do you know who King Lemuel is? It’s not even hiss own proverbs, it’s something his mom told him.
How about Hebrews, who wrote Hebrews?
If we don’t know who these people are, how do we know it’s written by a well-known biblical figure?
Answer:
Men are wicked when outside of the will of God.
All of the Biblical writing was does within the word of God.
Argument: Attacking how the Bible was written/the Bible was changed.
Let’s talk about how the Bible was written.
Would you believe me if I told you the Bible has changed?
Who wrote the Gospel according to John? John.
When was John written?
‘A date of AD 80–85 for the publication of the Gospel of John seems reasonable.’
(D. A. Carson, The Gospel according to John, The Pillar New Testament Commentary)
When did Jesus die?
April 7th, Year 30 CE. (Am I lying?)
Pontius Pilate, who ruled during the time of Jesus’ ministry, is known to have ruled Judea from AD 26–36.
The crucifixion took place during a Passover (Mark 14:12), and that fact, plus astronomical data (the Jewish calendar was lunar-based), narrows the field to two dates—April 7, AD 30, and April 3, AD 33.
There are scholarly arguments supporting both dates; the later date (AD 33) would require Jesus to have had a longer ministry and to have begun it later.
The earlier date (AD 30) would seem more in keeping with what we deduce about the start of Jesus’ ministry from Luke 3:1.
This means that at best, John was written at least 40 years after the events of Jesus’ ministry.
Have you ever played the telephone game?
Can we trust a story that was written 40 years after it actually happened?
Turn with me to John chapter 8.
Raise your hand if you have brackets around John 7:53 through John 8:11.
Does it say why you have brackets there?
It says the earliest manuscripts do not include this.
Meaning the earliest copies of John’s Gospel do not have this section of scripture in it.
Read with me John 7:50.
If you skip that entire section and pick up in John 8:12, it’s a seamless story.
If I told you that other manuscripts have this in another place in John, would you believe me?
If I told you some manuscripts have this story in Luke, would you believe me?
Turn with me to Matthew 17 (v.21)
Matthew 18:11
Matthew 23:14
Mark 7:16
Mark 9:44 & 46
Mark 11:26
Mark 15:28
Luke 17:36
John 5:3-4
Acts 8:37
Acts 15:34
Acts 24:6-8
Acts 28:29
Romans 16:24
How am I supposed to trust the Bible if we know it’s being revised, by men, and we have verses missing??
Answer
The fact that it is in many manuscripts shows that it was a historical event of Jesus.
The purpose of it being in John 8 is to highlight the context of what was happening.
The changed verses are due to use having access to more accurate and earlier manuscripts than the older translations had.
At the time when the King James Version was translated, there were 5 NT Mss.
Today, we have over 2,300 mss from before when the first Church Council produced the first copy of the Bible together in one volume, plus another 5,300 mss from after that time.
When was the Bible shaped?
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