Why God? “Why Can The Bible Be Trusted?”

Why God?
Why The Bible Can Be Trusted
5/31/26
Pastor Mark England

To trust the Bible, you must first

• Get a translation I and .

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• Get a physical study Bible. Digital is great for , but terrible for .
• Get in a .

Psalm 119:105 (ESV) Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Colossians 3:16 (NIV) Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.

Matthew 24:35 (CSB) Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

Why The Bible Can Be Trusted

1. The Holy Bible is accurate.

Psalm 33:4 (CSB) For the word of the Lord is right, and all his work is trustworthy.

The Standards for Historically Accurate Accounts

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2. The Holy Bible is accurate.

Psalm 148:5-6 (NLT) Let every created thing give praise to the Lord, for he issued his command, and they came into being. ⁶ He set them in place forever and ever. His decree will never be revoked.

1861 French Academy of Science
“51 Incontrovertible Scientific Facts that Prove the Bible is Wrong”

The earth was .
Isaiah 40:22 (NIV) He sits enthroned above the circle (Hb “Sphere”/ Eng “Globe) of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in.

The earth has to be .
Job 26:7 (NIV) He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing.

The number of stars could be .
Jeremiah 33:22 (NLT) …and as the stars of the sky cannot be counted…

Too much made you sick.
Leviticus 17:11 (NLT) for the life of the body is in its blood…

Psalm 12:6 (CSB) The words of the Lord are pure words, like silver refined in an earthen furnace,purified seven times.

3. The Holy Bible is accurate.

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2 Peter 1:21 (CSB) because no prophecy ever came by the will of man; instead, men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

Matthew 26:56 (NLT) But this is all happening to fulfill the words of the prophets as recorded in the Scriptures.” At that point, all the disciples deserted him and fled.

Revelation 22:6 (CSB) Then he said to me, “These words are faithful and true. The Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent his angel to show his servants what must soon take place.”

4. The Holy Bible is unified.

The Holy Bible was written over a period of in over a countries on three continents by people in different languages.

The Bible was by poets, prophets, farmers, kings, soldiers, shepherds, princes, priests, historians, fisherman, tax collectors, scholars, businessmen and doctors.

The Bible was in caves, ships, palaces, prisons, and deserts.

How did they come up with the same story?

There is only of the Bible.

There is only One Subject of the Bible… .

Luke 24:27 (CSB) Then beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted for them the things concerning himself in all the Scriptures.

5. The Holy Bible is by Jesus.

Matthew 5:18 (CSB) For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or one stroke of a letter will pass away from the law until all things are accomplished.

If you believe what you in the Bible, but don’t believe what you , it’s not the Bible that you , but yourself.

6. The Holy Bible has all attacks.

The Bible is the most despised, derided, denied, disputed, dissected, debated, outlawed and destroyed book ever.

“Within 100 years the Bible will be .” – Voltaire

1 Peter 1:24-25 (NIV) …the grass withers and the flowers fall, ²⁵but the word of the Lord endures forever.”

Will I God’s Word or by it?

Will I it or it?

Will I follow the or ?

7. The Holy Bible has

John 8:31-32 (CSB) Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you continue in my word, you really are my disciples. ³² You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

The greatest legacy you can leave behind isn’t , or tangible things… But the that endures eternity instilled in the of those you love.

Dear God, from this day forward, I will accept the Bible as Your flawless Word to me and I will make it the Final Authority for my life, even when I don’t understand it, when it’s not popular, easy, or even when I don’t like it.  You are God and I am not.  Thank you for loving me enough to speak to me through Your Word.  I want to LOVE Your Word, LEARN Your Word, and LIVE Your Word.