Why should I base my Life on an out of date Book written

2000 years ago?

• The Number of Translations

• The Talmudim

• The Massoretes

• New Testament Preservation

Author When Written

Earliest Copy

Time Span

# of Copies

Caesar 100- 44 BC

AD 900 1,000 years

10

Plato 427- 347 BC

AD 900 1,200 years

7

Tacitus AD 100 AD 1100 1,000 years

20

Aristotle 384- 322 BC

AD 1100 1,400 years

49

Author When Written

Earliest Copy

Time Span

# of Copies

Homer (Iliad)

900 BC 400 BC 500 years 643

New Test’t

AD 40-120

AD 125 25-80 years

24,630+

• So What?

• But Is The Bible True?

• Evidence from Science

What the Bible says: What people thought: What we know now:

Earth is a sphere Earth is a flat disk Earth is a sphere

Number of stars = more than a billion

Number of stars = 1,100 Number of stars = more than a billion

Every Star is different All Stars are the same Every Star is different

Light is in motion Light is fixed in space Light is in motion

Air has weight Air is weightless Air has weight

Winds blow in cyclones Winds blow straight Winds blow in cyclones

Blood is a source of life and healing

Sick people must be bled Blood is a source of life and healing

• Evidence from Archaeology

• Evidence from Prophecy

Ezekiel made an equally startling prediction about the city state of Tyre (in modern day Lebanon). He prophesied that…

• Many nations would come against Tyre (Ezekial 26:2).

• Nebuchadnezzar would destroy the city (Ezekial 26:4).

• The city would be scraped bare (Ezekial 26:4).• Fishing nets would be spread over the site

(Ezekial 26:5).• The stones of the city would

be thrown into the sea (Ezekial 26:12).• The city would never be rebuilt

(Ezekial 26:14).

Peter Stoner said, “...we find that the chance that any man might have lived down to the present time and fulfilled eight prophecies is 1 x 1017. 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000