Bible Authority

Authority Base•Simple•Complex•UnconsciousWell Thought-out

The Koran of the Muslim religion

•The Triptaka of Buddhism

•The Veda of Brahmanism

•The Zend-Avesta of Zoroastrianism

•The sacred texts of Confucianism

•Bible claims to come from the true God

Isaiah 55:10–11“For as the rain and the snow

come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,

•so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.” 

2 Timothy 3: 16,17•16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

Hebrews 4:12•12 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Superiority of the Bible

•Its unity•One book of sixty-six books

Prophecies•Let’s go to the lab and run some test.

ISAIAH 39:5,7•5 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the Lord of hosts: 6 Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up till this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left, says the Lord.

7 And some of your own sons,

who will come from you,

whom you will father, shall be

taken away, and they shall be

eunuchs in the palace of the

king of Babylon.”

Daniel 1:7• 7 And the chief of the eunuchs gave them names: Daniel he called Belteshazzar, Hananiah he called Shadrach, Mishael he called Meshach, and Azariah he called Abednego.

•Isaiah 740–680 BC•Daniel 537 BC•143 Years difference

Jeremiah 25:11• This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

MessiahMicah 5:2• But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, •who are too little to be among the clans of Judah,

• from you shall come forth for me •one who is to be ruler in Israel, • whose coming forth is from of old, •from ancient days.

LUKE 2:4-74 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, 5 to be registered with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child.

6 And while they were there, the time came for her to give birth. 7 And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.

Malachi 3:1•1 “Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 3:1–3•1 In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea,• 2 “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” 3 For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah when he said,

• “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: • ‘Prepare the way of the Lord; •make his paths straight.’ ”

Jesus Ministry•Isaiah 9:1–2 and Matthew 4:13–16; •Isaiah 61:1 and Luke 4:16–19;

Isaiah 42:1–6 and Luke 2:32;

•Isaiah 53:5 and John 1:11.)

14 Prophecies about Christ death•Isaiah 50:6 and Matthew 26:67;• Psalm 22:1 and Matthew 27:46; •Psalm 22:18 and John 19:23–24;• Psalm 34:10 and John 19:33–36; and •Isaiah 53:9 and Matthew 27:57–60.)

•There is a variance of 900 to 950 years . Everyone of these prophecies happened exactly as prophesied.

What did Jesus say about the Bible?

•When Jesus was tempted:•Matthew 4:4

4 But he answered,

IT IS WRITTEN• “ ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, •but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’ ”

Matthew 19:3–5•3 And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?” 4 He

answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from

the beginning made them male and female,

•, 5 and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?

Luke 17:26–2726 Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man. 27 They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. 28 Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot—they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building,

•29 but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all— 30 so will it be on the day when the Son of Man is revealed.

Matthew 12:40–41•. 40 For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. 41 The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.

2 Peter 1:2121 For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

•We need every word that comes from the mouth of GOD!

•Those Words are in the BIBLE!