Why do we read the Bible?
Mar 02
All-time best seller… not Stephen King, JK Rowling, Philip Pulman… but a by God
The Facts
66 books, but really only 1
Around 40 authors, but really only 1
Written in 3 languages
Written over 1500 years
- It’s true
The Bible agrees with itself
The Bible says it’s true
Thousands of copies and early manuscripts
Archaeology agrees with the Bible
Other books agree with the Bible: Josephus, Tacitus
- It’s from God
2 Timothy 3:16… “All Scripture is God-breathed…”
2 Peter 1:11… “For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.”
- It’s all about Jesus
Luke 24:44… “Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.”
The Centre of History, Centre of the Bible
Why read about Jesus?
Josephus… Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man; for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews and many of the Gentiles. He was [the] Christ. And when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men amongst us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first did not forsake him; for he appeared to them alive again the third day; as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him. And the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct at this day.
Col 1… “He is the image of the invisible God”
John 14:9… “Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father”
