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Why Spiritual People should be talking about the DaVinci Code

Why Spiritual People should be talking about the DaVinci Code. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. .

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Why Spiritual People should be talking about the DaVinci Code

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  1. Why Spiritual People should be talking about the DaVinci Code

  2. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

  3. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. “The Bible is a product of man…Not of God Dan Brown: The Da Vinci Code, 231.

  4. Who wrote the Bible? God or humans?

  5. Who wrote the Bible? God or humans? ANSWER: Both

  6. Psalm 23:1-4 1 The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not be in want. 2 He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, 3 he restores my soul. He guides me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. 4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

  7. 2 Corinthians 1:3-5 3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. 5 For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.

  8. The Bible is reliable and accurate in all that it intends to teach.

  9. The Bible is reliable and accurate in all that it intends to teach.

  10. 1500BC Now

  11. 1500BC Now

  12. 1500BC Now • Who am I • How am I to live

  13. Archeological Evidence We are encouraged to believe [Bible’s] doctrines because of the reliability of its history….In fact, the reliability of the earthly matters gives us confidence in the reliability of the heavenly matters that are beyond the realm of human investigation….

  14. Time Magazine, March 5, 1990 “Score One for the Bible” “It is one of the most dramatic events chronicled in the Old Testament, but for generations scholars have debated whether the Israelites’ assault on Jericho was fact or myth.” And then he goes on to talk about the excavation work done by the late British archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon who studied at the site of Jericho for six years and by the way, was not a Christian. Lemonick in this article goes on to say: “Kenyon’s discoveries at Jericho were largely consistent with the Bible story.

  15. Time Magazine, March 5, 1990 “Score One for the Bible” For one thing, she found that the city’s walls had fallen in a way suggestive of sudden collapse….Moreover, Kenyon found bushels of grain on the site. That is consistent with the Bible’s assertions that Jericho was conquered quickly. If the city had capitulated after a long siege, the grain would have been used up….A thick layer of soot at the site, which according to radioactive carbon 14 dating was laid down about 1400 B.C., supports the biblical idea that the city was burned, not simply conquered.”

  16. “I am not the only scholar who suspects that the figure of King David is about as historical as King Arthur.” Philip R. Davis, Biblical Archaeology Review July-Aug. 1004:55.

  17. “This is the fist time that the name David has been found in any ancient inscription outside the Bible. That the inscription refers not simply to a ‘David’ but to the House of David, the dynasty of the great Israelite king, is even more remarkable.” Biblical Archeological Review Mar-Apr. 1994:26.

  18. “A review of recent archeological books and articles reveals that evidence has also been found in this century that confirms the historical existence of the following biblical kings: Ahab, Ahaz, Omri, Hezekiah, Hoshea, Jehu, Jeroboam II, Manasseh, and Pekah.” Jesus: The Great Debate: Grant Jeffrey, 42.

  19. “The Dead Sea Scrolls were found in the 1950’s hidden in a cave near Qumran in the Judean desert...The scrolls highlight glaring historical discrepancies and fabrications, clearly confirming that the modern Bible was compiled and edited by men who possessed a political agenda”

  20. In fact, multiple copies of several biblical texts that had lain undisturbed in the desert caves for almost two thousand years….After carefully comparing the biblical manuscripts, they discovered that, aside from a tiny number of spelling variations,

  21. there were no significant differences between the original scrolls in the caves and the Hebrew texts used to produce the Authorized King James Version of 1611.” Jesus: The Great Debate: Grant Jeffrey, 59-60.

  22. Prophecy

  23. Prophecy 2 Peter 1:20-21 20 Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation. 21 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. Deuteronomy 18:20 20 But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded him to say, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, must be put to death.”

  24. “I was somewhat surprised by the Bible’s arrogant-seeming boast about its God being the God, and that there were no others. I was surprised by the law that prophecy be 100-percent perfect.

  25. In probability testing only an acceptable degree of statistical significance is necessary to reach a conclusion—not perfection.

  26. But I reminded myself that a perfect God of the universe would be able to perfectly predict the future in any writing or person he inspired, just as the Bible had declared….

  27. I decided to examine each testament individually to see if either could clearly point to a God through 100-percent accurate historical prophecy.” Ralph Muncaster: A Skeptic’s Search for God, 131 & 135.

  28. “The statistical prophecy testing I was going through was hitting me like a ton of bricks. My rational mind told me it was impossible. After all, hadn’t man written the Bible?

  29. Yet, something was quite amazing—almost frightening. How could books written centuries in advance predict the future? And with 100-percent accuracy? Ralph Muncaster: A Skeptic’s Search for God, 146

  30. 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 000,000,000,000,000,000000,000,000,000,000,000 000,000,000,000,000,000000,000,000,000,000,000 000,000,000

  31. Examples “General Bible Prophecies” handout (back table, or web-site)

  32. New Testament

  33. The Galic Wars, by Julius Caesar • 10 copies • Earliest: 1000yrs after Caesar

  34. The Galic Wars, by Julius Caesar • 10 copies • Earliest: 1000yrs after Caesar • Anals of Roman History, by Tacticus • 20 copies • Earliest: 1000yrs after Tacticus

  35. The Galic Wars, by Julius Caesar • 10 copies • Earliest: 1000yrs after Caesar • Anals of Roman History, by Tacticus • 20 copies • Earliest: 1000yrs after Tacticus • New Testament

  36. The Galic Wars, by Julius Caesar • 10 copies • Earliest: 1000yrs after Caesar • Anals of Roman History, by Tacticus • 20 copies • Earliest: 1000yrs after Tacticus • New Testament • 25,000 copies • Earliest: 200 years after Christ

  37. John Warwick Montgomery says that “…to be skeptical of the resultant text of the New Testament books is to allow all of classical antiquity to slip into obscurity, for no documents of the ancient period are as well attested bibliographically as the New Testament.” John Warwick Montgomery: History and Christianity.

  38. “Canon” = “norm” or “rule”

  39. New Testament Criteria for Canon

  40. New Testament Criteria for Canon • Does this document have roots connected to an apostle?

  41. New Testament Criteria for Canon • Does this document have roots connected to an apostle? • Has to connect with the kind of teaching Jesus did

  42. New Testament Criteria for Canon • Does this document have roots connected to an apostle? • Has to connect with the kind of teaching Jesus did • Had to have widespread influence in the church (Israel, Asia minor, Italy, Greece, etc)

  43. None of the non-canonical books comes close in date of composition, breadth of distribution, or proportion of acceptance.

  44. The Gnostic Gospels weren’t rejected for inclusion in the canon; they were never even considered.

  45. It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them from doing so. --William Barclay--

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