Transcript “Can You Trust the Bible, I mean look at what the Da Vinci Code

“Is the Bible a
Fake, like the
Da Vinci code
says it is?”
What The Bible can do!
The Witness of the
church
The Bible’s Historical
Credibility Contrasted
with the Da Vinci Code
 Military historian, Prof. C.
Sanders in his book "The
Introduction to Research in
English Literary History"
explains three basic principles
(of historiography) by which any
ancient document can be
checked out. They are simply
the bibliographical test, the test
of internal evidence and the test
of the external evidence.
THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL
TEST
HISTORIAN
WHEN WRITTEN EARLIEST COPY TIME SPAN #COPIES
Herodotus
480 - 425 BC
900 AD
1,300 yrs
8
Plato
427 - 347 BC
900 AD
1,200 yrs
7
Aristotle
384 - 322 BC
1100 AD
1,400 yrs
49
Caesar
100 - 44 BC
900 AD
1,000 yrs
10
Pliny
61 - 113 AD
850 AD
750 yrs
7
N.T.
48 AD
130 AD
80 yrs
24,630+
THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL TEST
THE INTERNAL TEST
EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS
They speak as HISTORIANS
The COMPARATIVE
DOCUMENTS confirm its
accuracy
THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL TEST
THE INTERNAL TEST
THE EXTERNAL TEST
EARLY CHURCH WRITINGS
 As
a result we have a direct
chain of Christian writers...
 JESUS - JOHN - POLYCARP
(70-132 AD) - IRENAEUS
(130-202 AD)
 JEWISH AND ROMAN
DOCUMENTS
 Jewish - Mishnah - Gemaras –
Talmud
 Roman
THALLUS 52 AD. Attempts to
explain away the darkness at the
crucifixion as an eclipse of the sun.
 TACITUS 112 AD, SEUTONIUS 120
AD, PLINY THE YOUNGER 112 AD,
& FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS 80 AD.

 ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE
The world's foremost archaeologists
confirm the reliability of the New
Testament manuscripts through their
findings.
 PROFESSOR NELSON GLUECK
the renowned Jewish archaeologist
wrote: “It may be stated categorically
that no archaeological discovery has
ever controverted a Biblical
Reference.”

What The Bible can do!
The Witness of the church
The Bible’s Historical
Credibility Contrasted with
the Da Vinci Code
The Witness of
JESUS CHRIST
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