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Cadet Challenge Pit Your Wits. 1. What book was written by God? The Bible Inspired God breathed. Cadet Challenge Pit Your Wits. 2. How many times does the Old testament say, “Thus says the LORD”, or “God spoke these words”? A = over 1,000 times B = over 2,000 times C = over 3,000 times
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Cadet ChallengePit Your Wits • 1. What book was written by God? • The Bible • Inspired • God breathed
Cadet ChallengePit Your Wits • 2. How many times does the Old testament say, “Thus says the LORD”, or “God spoke these words”? • A = over 1,000 times • B = over 2,000 times • C = over 3,000 times • B = over 2,000 times. • The Bible tells us over and over that it is God’s word to us.
Cadet ChallengePit Your Wits • 3. How many languages and dialects has the Bible been translated into? • A = over 100 • B = over 500 • C = over 2,000 • C = over 2,000. • Most books are not translated into other languages.
Cadet ChallengePit Your Wits • 4. What important discovery in 1947 shows that the Bible has accurately been preserved? • A = Ebla tablets • B = Jericho Parchments • C = Dead Sea Scrolls • C = Dead Sea Scrolls • These very old scrolls prove that the Bible was preserved accurately through time.
Cadet ChallengePit Your Wits • 5. The Bible is the best-selling and most-read book of all time. • True • False • True
Cadet ChallengePit Your Wits • 6. Before we had machines to print the Bible, who copied the Bible’s Old Testament? • A = Priests • B = Scribes • C = Pharisees • B = Scribes • They had very serious rules on how to copy the Bible.
Scribes • Put on clean clothes. • They had to recount the letters to make sure no mistakes had been made. • If they made a mistake, they had to destroy the page and start over. • While they were writing, they did not even look up if a king entered the room. • When they wrote the name of God, they always dipped their pen in fresh ink.
Cadet ChallengePit Your Wits • 7. How many promises are there in the Bible? • A = over 4,000 • B = over 6,000 • C = over 8,000 • C = over 8,000 • God cannot lie. His word is truth. You can trust God.
Cadet ChallengePit Your Wits • 8. People have tried to ______ the Bible, but they were not able to do so. What word tells what they tired to do? • A = destroy • B = hide • C = lose • A = destroy • God protects the Bible from evil people who try to destroy it.
The Bible is the Word of God • Jesus said, • “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.” • Matthew 24:35
Cadet ChallengePit Your Wits • 9. The word, Bible, means _______ • A = paper • B = record • C = book • C = book • The Bible is God’s word to us and is the Book of Books.
Cadet ChallengePit Your Wits • 10. What is the most loved book of all time? • A = the Bible • B = the Bible • C = the Bible • The Bible
Book of Books • Inspired • God breathed • God told men what to write down. • It is the only book like this in the world.
Book of Books • 2 Timothy 3:16 • All Scripture is God-breathed
Book of Books • History and archeology • Science • The Bible agrees with itself. • Fulfilled prophecy • Proven to be true in our lives.
How the Bible Came to Be • In the beginning, God talked directly to people. • God wrote the 10 commandments with His own finger on tablets of stone. • God told men, including Moses, what to write in the Bible. • They wrote God’s word down on several different things.
What the Bible was written on • Clay tablets—wooden or metal sticks • Stone—metal or rock chisels • Scrolls • Parchment from the skins of animals—ink • Papyrus—ink • Books • Paper—ink
Printing Press • Johannes Gutenberg • Faster • Not as expensive • Didn’t have to be copied by hand. • All of us can have the Word of God, the Book of Books in our own hands. • We can listen to what God wants us to know.