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Announcer: It's time now for Bible Talk. Join our hosts Gary Gibbs and
John Bradshaw as they open the Bible and talk about themes that affect
your life today. Stay tuned because the next 15 minutes will deepen your
understanding of God's word.

John Bradshaw: Hi and welcome to Bible Talk, where we talk about the
Bible and how the Bible affects us today. I'm John Bradshaw. With me is
Gary Gibbs. Hi there, Gary.

Gary Gibbs: Hi, John. Today we're going to be talking about the Bible and
is it a book that we can trust in and that we can build our faith on?

John: We've been talking about principles of successful Christian living.

We've discussed prayer lately. We've talked about the Bible and studying
the Bible.
Let's take a few minutes and talk about whether the Bible can actually be
trusted. The Bible has had its fair share of detractors down through the
years.

Gary: Detractors, they're the people that just outright attack the Bible, who
say you just can't trust it whatsoever. There are those in the science
community who say the whole account of a creation over six days proves
that the Bible is just a book of fables. How would you respond to that?

John: Well, the difficult thing is that you're always going to get into an
argument where my scientists can beat up your scientists. My scientific
facts are better than yours. No, they're not. Yes, they are. Finally, what
you've got to do is accept that somebody has ultimate authority. Now, as a
Bible believing Christian, I'm prepared to allow that God has authority
enough. I am willing to admit though that there is a lot of evidence in the
scientific community. No, not evidence, but there's a lot of thought,
thinking theory - call it what you will - in the scientific community that
seems compelling, that seems as though it has some weight to it. You'd
have to be contrary not to admit that that is true. But

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at the same time, there are many things about the Bible and evidence in
terms of creationism that scientists have never been able to successfully
refute. You see, the Bible is to be believed ultimately by faith.

If you're going to go with evolution, you've got to believe that ultimately by

faith as well because there's no evidence that the theory of evolution is true.
How I would finally confront an argument about the creation versus
evolution issue of the Bible is to say that at the end of the day, I choose
as my authority the Holy Bible. I accept it by faith, remembering though
that there are many, many scientific facts that support and buttress the
argument of six-day creation as per the Bible account.

Gary: If I'm a non-Christian coming to the Bible and I have a scientific

background, and you're trying to win me to Christ. I come to the Bible and I
say, "How can I believe this book?" If I start off on the first page and it has
this God speaking the world into existence. There's light before there's
sun and the sky.
You expect me to read this book? If I can't trust Genesis 1, how do you
expect me to believe in John 3:16?

John: I think that when you learn to trust John 3:16 and experience the love
and the presence and the power of God, you'll love God so much that you
willingly believe whatever the Bible says because it is said by the God who
claims to have created the heavens and the earth.

Gary: Let's go to John 3:16 then. Let's say I'm the scientist who says, "You
know, I don't know about the creation account." But here we're going to go
to the life of Jesus. Can I believe what the Bible says about Jesus? Is this a
historically accurate book?

John: I think the Bible is entirely trustworthy, particularly, historically.

Let's consider some things. Who wrote the Bible? Eyewitnesses wrote the
Bible. If they weren't eyewitnesses, they knew eyewitnesses. Moses wrote a
great chunk of the Bible. He was very intimately acquainted with God.
Solomon wrote parts
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of the Bible. These were people who knew God. The prophets like Isaiah,
Jeremiah, Ezequiel, Nahum, Habakkuk - they were filled with the Holy Spirit
of God and knew God intimately. They were eyewitnesses. They were there.
They saw what happened. You get into the New Testament, Matthew, Mark
and John were eyewitnesses. Luke, Doctor Luke, knew those people who
were eyewitnesses, no question about it. They wrote accounts of the life
of Christ based on what they knew or in Luke's account, what the
eyewitnesses told him. The people who wrote what they wrote weren't just
speculators and philosophers. These were people who knew what they were
talking about and knew who they were talking about.

Gary: Do we have people outside of the Bible, they're not part of the
Scriptures, who also testify to the historical accuracy? Let's go to Jesus'
time.

John: Oh, man, there's no question. We have historical accounts from

historians who were around at the time of Christ. Perhaps the best-
known is a man named Josephus who wrote much contemporary history
of the time of Christ. Josephus wrote about Jesus himself having existed. He
wrote about the followers of Christ, people such as Pontius Pilate,
verified by the historical record. History...

Gary: I'll stop you there on Pontius Pilate. For a long time, they said you can't
verify that Pontius Pilate existed. Then they find this stone there in, I
believe, it's up there in Capernaum, up on the northern shore of the Sea of
Galilee, if I'm not mistaken. There you can see, I've seen it with my own eyes,
"Pontius Pilate" inscribed there. And so you know, yes, it's historically
accurate.

John: There's something else that you've alluded to here. That's the idea of
archaeology. Many times historians and archaeologists have said you can't
trust this part of the Bible because we have no corroborating physical
evidence that this civilization ever existed. That this king ever existed, that
this battle ever took place. Then archaeologists sometime later turn over
a shovel
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full of sand in the Middle East and find the missing evidence that says
"Yes, there was a city by this name. Yes, there was a king by that name.
Certainly this civilization existed or this battle took place." Well, I don't
want to stretch it but on a continuing basis, archaeologists continue to
authenticate the written accounts of the Bible. You've got archaeology.
You've got history. You've got eyewitnesses. Man, it's looking good.

Gary: Over 50 years ago, many disbelieving scholars totally rejected the
historical accuracy because they didn't believe King David, the House of
David existed.

John: Right.

Gary: But in 1993, archaeologists were digging at Tel Dan in Galilee in

Northern Israel and they found a fragment of a stone with the inscription on
it, the House of David. It identifies David as the king of Israel. This is the
first inscription outside the Bible that confirms the Bible statement that
David was the king of Israel in the ninth century before Christ.

John: I don't think we ought to be careless about this and what I'm about to
say I don't mean to say carelessly. The Bible ultimately is going to be
accepted by faith. Man, I can't prove to you that there is a God. I can't take
you to God's house and introduce you to him like I might take you to
meet my mother. I can't do that. I can't even prove to you physically that I
have a brain and no smart comments. I've never seen it. I've never seen
yours, so maybe you don't have one. Well, no, there's enough evidence that
suggests that certainly you do. You know what I'm saying.

Gary: For some people you'll have to dig a little deeper for that evidence but
it's there.

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John: No question. Maybe we can't prove some of these things in the Bible
but
there is a weighty amount of evidence and faith allows you to lay hold on
this evidence and say "Yeah, I can believe this."

Gary: It's a building and accumulating amount of evidence. I just gave this
example. The first extra-biblical, outside the Bible inscription of the
house of David, 1993. OK. What if we go back 100 years before that, 1893?
Here's a person who says "I can't believe the Bible. Most of it is built around
this concept that there was this King David and the House of David. There's
no archaeology proving this. I'm not going to believe this until this is
proven." Well, they would have had to live over a century to get that proof.
But they probably had enough evidence to believe right then. Some of the
things that we may have questions on, I think we need to put on a shelf and
say, "Well, we'll just put that over here to the side and then one day this will
become clear. But let's take the things that have been revealed and let's act
on them."

John: There are two compelling indicators that the Bible can be trusted.
We're going to get to those in just a moment. Right now, today's offer. We
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here on Bible Talk and we really hope you'll accept that offer. I said two
more things. One of those, prophecy.
What do you do with the prophecies that say from long ago, that there's
going to come a man who'll be crucified? Not one of his bones is going to be
broken. These words: "My God, my God, why has thou forsaken me?" were
written long before Jesus hung on the cross.

This man is going to born of a virgin, he's going to be born in Bethlehem,

and this is about the time he's going to be born. A star is going to be
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seen there. Wise men sought to understand. What do you do with those
prophecies if

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you're a skeptic who doesn't believe the Bible?

Gary: Well, I tell you what has been done in the past is they'll say these
prophets wrote after the fact. They said that for years about Daniel. But, now,
archaeology reveals that Daniel did not write after the fact. He knew things
that people didn't even know that was lost information. Now that we've gone
back with better archaeology, we realize that Daniel had insights that
anybody 100 or 200 years after his time could have never known. Daniel
was very accurate. He wrote during his time, plus his prophecy spanned. He
started writing around 605 B.C. and his prophecies come all the way down to
our day. I can take you to Daniel 2:7, and other places and it brings us all
the way down to the 20th and 21st centuries. And so, you can't say that he
wrote after the fact. He'd have to still be here today.

John: I was sharing Daniel's prophecies in a sermon recently and a teenage

girl came to me and said, "Up till this point, I had been a skeptic. I was a
non- Christian. I said the Bible couldn't be believed. Based on what I've
heard today, my mind has been changed. That fulfilled prophecies are
absolutely compelling." Hey, let me share this story with you. A man is in
Hitler's army during Second World War, the German army. He believes the
Bible. His superior officers call him to a meeting. "Can you explain some
of this Bible to us that you talk about?" "Oh, yes." He went to Daniel 2:
Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome. One of the officers in that little
meeting was a history teacher. When he went through the metal man, the
head of gold, you got that right, that's right, Babylon.

This man in the army which say a little more. He looked to the teacher,
the officer. "Yes, that's right, that's right." Well then, what happens is the
prophecy in Daniel says, "They're not going to cleave together again." In
other words, the European, what am I calling it, kingdom is never going to
come back together like it was.

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Gary: Which was what Hitler was trying to accomplish.

John: Absolutely.

Gary: Put Europe all under his control.

John: And they knew it. Now, when he explained that to them, of course, he
could have been executed for suggesting that Hitler wasn't going to win. But
they dismissed him. They let him go. They must have had a discussion. A
day or two later, they said to this young man who was in charge of the
purchasing, "Stockpile all the fuel you can." You see, he told them through
the prophecy, Hitler was going to lose. They said, "If we're going to lose, get
us as much fuel as you can." When it became evident Hitler was going to be
defeated, they turned around and with that fuel made it all the way back to
Germany. Not one life was lost, they survived because this man knew the
prophecies of the Bible could be trusted and they were sure. What are you
going to do with fulfilled prophecy? It speaks to us about a Bible that you
can trust.

Gary: And if we will read the Bible today, it can protect us and it can bless
us just like it did those men 50 years ago.

John: Our time has come to an end again. Thanks for joining us on Bible
Talk. We'll see you again next time. With Gary Gibbs, I'm John Bradshaw.

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