The Bible as Best Seller • 100,000,000 Bibles were sold or given away in 2015 • 93% of U.S. households have at least 1 copy of the Bible … most have 3 copies. • All seven of the Harry Potu tuer Books sold world wide equals 400,000,000.
2 Peter 1:20-21 (ESV) Knowing this fj fjrst of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretatj tjon. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
The Word of God • Holy Spirit moved the author to write down the Scriptures … God’s word. • We have about 5,700 partj tjal and complete copies of the Greek new testament.
The Word of God • There have been thousands of translatj tjons of the Bible in over 500 difg fgerent languages. Hundreds of English Translatj tjons.
Why so many English translatj tjons? • Manuscripts contj tjnue to be found. • Language changes.
KJV Translators said "Indeed without translatj tjon into the vulgar tongue, the unlearned are but like children at Jacob's well (which is deep) [John 4:11] without a bucket or something to draw with; or as that person mentj tjoned by Isaiah, to whom when a sealed book was delivered, with this motj tjon, "Read this, I pray thee," he was fain to make this answer, "I cannot, for it is sealed." [Isa 29:11]"
KJV Translators said "But we desire that the Scripture may speak like itself, as in the language of Canaan, that it may be understood even of the very vulgar."
Why so many English translatj tjons? • Manuscripts contj tjnue to be found. • Language changes. • 99.9% are valuable
KJV Translators said ”We do not deny, nay we affj ffjrm and avow, that the very meanest translatj tjon of the Bible in English, set forth by men of our profession, (for we have seen none of theirs of the whole Bible as yet) containeth the word of God, nay, is the word of God."
KJV Translators said "Therefore as S. Augustj tjne saith, that variety of Translatj tjons is profj fjtable for the fj fjnding out of the sense of the Scriptures: so diversity of signifj fjcatj tjon and sense in the margin, where the text is no so clear, must needs do good, yea, is necessary, as we are persuaded."
2 Timothy 3:16-17 (ESV) All Scripture is breathed out by God and profj fjtable for teaching, for reproof, for correctj tjon, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
Why We Should Know this Best Seller • The Bible is dependable All Scripture is breathed out by God … 2 Timothy 3:16 (ESV) History has born it out Superior manuscript evidence Less than 100 years from the writj tjng of the New Testament Adapted from Dr. Johnny Hunt
Why We We Should Know this Best Seller • The Bible is dependable All Scripture is breathed out by God … 2 Timothy 3:16 (ESV) History has born it out Superior manuscript evidence Plato … earliest manuscript known is 1,200 years afu fuer his Adapted from Dr. Johnny writj tjng. Hunt
Why We Should Know this Best Seller • The Bible is dependable All Scripture is breathed out by God … 2 Timothy 3:16 (ESV) History has born it out Superior manuscript evidence Aristotle … earliest manuscript known is 1,400 years afu fuer his Adapted from Dr. Johnny writj tjng. Hunt
Why We Should Know this Best Seller • The Bible is dependable All Scripture is breathed out by God … 2 Timothy 3:16 (ESV) History has born it out Superior manuscript evidence Homer’s Illiad … .500 years. Adapted from Dr. Johnny Hunt
Why We Should Know this Best Seller • The Bible is profj fjtable To know what is right ( teaching) To know what is not right (reproof) To know how to get right (correctj tjon) To know how to stay right (training) Adapted from Dr. Johnny Hunt
Why We Should Know this Best Seller • The Bible is desirable That the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy 3:17 (ESV) His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence. 2 Peter 1:3 (NIV) Adapted from Dr. Johnny Hunt
What’s Next? Sunday Bible Studies (9:40a) Precept Bible Study (Thursdays, 7p) Daily reading/listening o Smart Phone Journaling Memorizing Bible Study Group
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