One of the MOST important
questions YOU will ever
answer…
If the Bible is NOT true,
nothing matters…
But if the Bible IS true,
NOTHING ELSE MATTERS.
Lot’s of people
think the Bible
is fiction and
will try and get
you to believe
them, just like I
have tried to get
you to believe
me. Who is
right?? How do
you know??
What is the ONLY way,
that makes any sense,
to prove something is true??
Logical proof based on evidence.
1 Thessalonians 5: 21
But test everything. Keep what
is good, and stay away from
everything that is evil.
1 Peter 3: 15b
Always be ready to answer
everyone who asks you to explain
about the hope you have.
We asked the question, was Jesus a
real man who actually lived on
earth during the first century.
We looked at evidence of …
Eyewitness testimony
Written documents
Historical evidence
Jesus has been written about by
people who liked Him, people
who didn’t, atheists, and
historians, and has been talked
about, and influenced more people
than any other person in history…
Why would a simple carpenter
boy warrant such attention??
The fact that anyone would
even write about Him means
He must have done or said
something very special.
The Bible is a miracle
collection of books…
1. The Bible is not just one book.
It is a collection of 66 books.
2. The Bible was written by about
40 different authors, from different
walks of life…
from peasants to kings
3. The Bible was written on 3
continents: Asia, Africa, Europe.
4. The Bible was written
in 3 languages:
Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek
5. The Bible was written over a
period of 1600 years.
NO factual
differences in
ANY part of the
Bible!!
The Bible is NOT flawed due to
copy errors or mistakes!!
When the Old Testament was
copied, they checked EVERY
letter to make sure it was copied
exactly right. If they found even
one error, the whole manuscript
was thrown out.
It was multiple copies
of multiple copies.
There are over 24,000 copies of
ancient manuscripts of the Bible…
WAY more than ANY other
great historical book.
What is the greatest proof that
there have not been copy errors??
The Dead Sea Scrolls
The Bible has more archaeological
evidence than any other book.
We also looked at the question…
Did the writers lie on purpose??
1. If the writers lied, then the
Bible is even a BIGGER miracle!!
2. Why would anyone die or suffer
EXTREME torture for a lie??
3. How or why would a bunch
of liars write a book that
contained the worlds greatest
standard of morality??
Did the writers make
honest mistakes??
1.If the writers made mistakes, then
again, the Bible is even a
BIGGER miracle!!
2. The writers were alive during
the time Jesus was on
the earth. They saw Jesus
and talked to Him.
3. Even the enemies of
Jesus testified to His miracles
4. There were MANY eyewitnesses
to verify that what the apostles
wrote was accurate.
They would have said
something if there were errors.
Truth Table
Start
Jesus was
a man
Jesus was
not a man
New Testament
was not accurate
because of
Honest mistakes
because the
Writers lied
on purpose
New Testament
Was accurate
And now week 4,
one of the greatest
ways we can
KNOW the Bible
IS true…Prophecy
What is prophecy??
All major religions have
prophecy in their writings…
What makes the Bible
different??
The Bible has THOUSANDS
of prophecies…
Most have already happened,
and EVERY one WITHOUT
exception, have been TRUE!!
NO other religion comes even
close to this record!!!
The Bible can be proven
TRUE because of prophecy
and ALL other religions can
be proven FALSE because of
prophecy!!!
So the Bible has prophecy…
and it has come true…
Lucky guesses??
Let’s see!!!!
Let’s look at just a few
predictions about Jesus.......
The First Prediction:
His birth in Bethlehem from the tribe of Judah –
The Old Testament Prediction:
Micah 5:2 + Genesis 49:10
The New Testament Fulfillment:
Matthew 2:1-12 + Luke 2:4-20
Probability: 1 chance in 2400
The Second Prediction:
He would be preceded by a messenger
The Old Testament Prophecy:
Isaiah 40:3
The New Testament Fulfillment:
Matthew 3:1-2
Probability: 1 chance in 20
Total 1 chance in 48,000
The Third Prediction:
He would enter Jerusalem on a colt
The Old Testament Prediction:
Zechariah 9:9
The New Testament Fulfillment:
Luke 19:35-37 + Matthew 21:1-11 +
Mark 11:1-10 + John 12:12-16
Probability: 1 chance in 50
Total 1 chance in 2,400,000
The Forth Prediction:
He would be betrayed by a friend
The Old Testament Prediction:
Psalms 41:9
The New Testament Fulfillment:
Matthew 26:47-48
Probability: 1 chance in 10
Total 1 chance in 24,000,000
The Fifth Prediction:
His hands and feet would be pierced
The Old Testament Prediction:
Psalm 22:16
The New Testament Fulfillment:
Luke 23:33 + Acts 2:36
Probability: 1 chance in 100
Total 1 chance in 2.4 billion
The Sixth Prediction:
He would be wounded by His enemies
The Old Testament Prediction:
Isaiah 53:5
The New Testament Fulfillment:
Matthew 27:26
Probability: 1 chance in 10
Total 1 chance in 24 billion
The Seventh Prediction:
He would be betrayed for 30 pieces of silver
The Old Testament Prediction:
Zechariah 11:12
The New Testament Fulfillment:
Matthew 26:15
Probability: 1 chance in 50
Total 1 chance in 1.2 trillion
The Eighth Prediction:
He would be spit on and beaten
The Old Testament Prediction:
Isaiah 50:6
The New Testament Fulfillment:
Matthew 26:67
Probability: 1 chance in 10
Total 1 chance in 12 trillion
The Ninth Prediction:
His betrayal money would be thrown in the
Temple and then given to buy a potter’s field
The Old Testament Prediction:
Zechariah 11:13
The New Testament Fulfillment:
Matthew 27:5-7
Probability: 1 chance in 200
Total 1 chance in 2.4 x 10^15
The Tenth Prediction:
He would be silent before His accusers
The Old Testament Prediction:
Isaiah 53:7
The New Testament Fulfillment:
Matthew 27:12-14
Probability: 1 chance in 100
Total 1 chance in 2.4 x 10^17
The Eleventh Prediction:
He would be crucified with thieves
The Old Testament Prediction:
Isaiah 53:12
The New Testament Fulfillment:
Matthew 27:38
Probability: 1 chance in 100
Total 1 chance in 2.4 x 10^19
The Twelfth Prediction:
They would gamble for His clothes
The Old Testament Prediction:
Psalms 22:18
The New Testament Fulfillment:
John 19:23-24
Probability: 1 chance in 100
Total 1 chance in 2.4 x 10^21
The Thirteenth Prediction:
His side would be pierced
The Old Testament Prediction:
Zechariah 12:10
The New Testament Fulfillment:
John 19:34
Probability: 1 chance in 100
Total 1 chance in 2.4 x 10^23
The Fourteenth Prediction:
None of His bones would be broken
The Old Testament Prediction:
Psalms 34:20
The New Testament Fulfillment:
John 19:33
Probability: 1 chance in 20
Total 1 chance in 4.8 x 10^24
The Fifteenth Prediction:
His body would not decay, but would rise again
The Old Testament Prediction:
Psalms 16:9-10
The New Testament Fulfillment:
Acts 2:31
Probability: 1 chance in 10,000
Total 1 chance in 4.8 x 10^28
The Sixteenth Prediction:
His would be buried in a rich man’s tomb
The Old Testament Prediction:
Isaiah 53:9
The New Testament Fulfillment:
Matthew 27:57-60
Probability: 1 chance in 100
Total 1 chance in 4.8 x 10^30
The Seventeenth Prediction:
Darkness covering the earth during the day
The Old Testament Prediction:
Amos 8:9
The New Testament Fulfillment:
Matthew 27:45
Probability: 1 chance in 1000
Total 1 chance in 4.8 x 10^33
So the chance that Jesus fulfilled
these 17 prophecies is
1 in 4.8 x 10^33
So…. Big deal
It’s not a big chance, but it
is a chance… it still could be just
lucky guesses… couldn’t it??
Let’s see!!!
If Jesus is not God,
but just a simple carpenter…
just a man… could He
accidentally fulfill them all….
If the Bible is NOT true, could it
accidentally predict all of them??
The chance that Jesus fulfilled…
and the Bible predicted…
these 17 prophecies is
1 in 4.8 x 10^33
Let’s see how big that is…
If you had 4.8 x 10^33 pennies,
could you fit them in...
This room?
This church?
The school?
Battlefield Mall?
Missouri?
USA?
Let’s see!!!.......
98,304 pennies, two cubic feet
1,003,776 pennies, a wall 5ft. x 4ft.
x 1ft. + a 9in. cube
10,017,024 pennies, a 6ft. cube
100,016,640 pennies, a 12ft. cube
and a 7ft. cube.
1,000,018,176 pennies, 5 cubes the
size of a school bus.
If you stacked the pennies on top of each other, they would be almost 1000
miles high. Just for a reference, the Space Shuttle orbits 225 miles high!
10,000,023,552 pennies, 50 cubes
the size of a school bus.
100,017,659,336 pennies, 127ft.
cube. Notice the man in front.
Sears Tower 1,450ft.
1 Trillion
Empire State Building 1,250ft.
1,000,000,016,640
pennies, 273ft. cube.
Washington Monument 555ft.
Lincoln Memorial (pictured on the
back of the penny!)
Football field
1,000,067,088,384,000 pennies,
2,730ft. cube. (1 Quadrillion)
The tallest
building in
the world!
1,000,067,088,384,000,000 pennies,
27,300ft. cube. (1 Quintillion)
1 sextillion would be approx 50 miles cubed
1 septillion would be approx 500 miles cubed
1 octillion would be approx 5,000 miles cubed
1 nonillion would be approx 50,000 miles cubed
1 decillion or 10^33, would be approx 500,000
miles cubed
We were looking at 4.8 x 10^33 or a cube of
pennies 2,400,000 miles cubed!!!!!
How big of a cube of pennies is that??
Those two black dots
are the earth and
moon. The dots are
really too big, but if I
made them the right
size, you couldn’t
have seen them!!!
4.8 x 10^33 pennies. 2,400,000
miles in every direction!!
If you were in the Space Shuttle traveling at 17,322
MPH (fast huh??) it would take a little over 124 hours,
or a little over 5 days just to travel across the cube!!!
But that is just 17 of 48
major prophecies, and over
300 minor prophecies!!!
The chance of any one
person fulfilling all 48
major prophecies is
1 in 10^157
So how big is 10^157??
How many electrons sitting
side by side, like this…
oooooooooooooooooooooo
would it take to be
1 inch long??
2.5 x 10^15
If you counted 4 electrons
every second, day and
night, 24/7/365… it would
take 19 million years to
count a single line of
electrons 1 inch long!!!
How many electrons would
fit inside of a penny??
Approx. 8.7 x 10^30
There are 4.8 x 10^33 pennies in this block and
there are 8.7 x 10^30 electrons in ONE single
penny… So would our BIG block of pennies
hold 10^157 electrons??
1 inch straight line of electrons is… 2.5 x 10^15
1 penny would hold 8.7 x 10^30 electrons
1 inch cube of electrons is… 15.625 x 10^45
1 ft. cube of electrons would be … 2.7 x 10^49
1 mile cube would be …3.97 x 10^60
Our 4.8 x 10^33 pile of pennies would contain
5.49 x 10^79 electrons
So how big is 10^157??
Light will travel 5.87 TRILLION miles in a
year. That distance is called a light year.
If the earth was the center of a ball of
electrons that extended 6 BILLION LIGHT
YEARS in every direction, the number of
electrons in a ball that big…
Is STILL not nearly 10^157!!
You would have to multiply that ball, with
a diameter of 12,000,000,000 light years
by… 6 x 10^28
And that will get you close to 10^157!!
The only problem with that…
OUR KNOWN
UNIVERSE IS
NOT THAT
BIG!!!
Let’s recap…
A electron is so small it would take
you 19 million years (if you counted 4
every second day and night) to count a single
line, one inch long.
What’s the chance you could
accidentally pick ONE of them if it
were marked??
And even as small as electrons are,
the entire known universe could not
hold 10^157 of them!!!
What’s the chance you could
accidentally pick 48 of them if they
were marked…
and never make one single mistake!!??
That is the chance that Jesus
could have accidentally
fulfilled, and the Bible could
have accidentally predicted,
the 48 major prophecies!!
And this is still not
counting any of the
minor prophecies!!
In other words….
IT
IS NOT
POSSIBLE!!!
Unless…
The Bible
IS TRUE and
JESUS IS
GOD!!!
So what is the point of all of this???
Jesus fulfilled
ALL of these
prophecies
PERFECTLY…
the Bible IS TRUE
and Jesus was
EXACTLY
who He said
He was!!!
Hosea 4:6
My people will be destroyed,
because they have no knowledge.
You have refused to learn, so I will
refuse to let you be priests to me.
You have forgotten the teachings
of your god, so I will forget your
children.
So what does the Bible say??
We have ALL sinned
Sin CAN’T be where God is
We CAN’T fix our sin
Jesus paid our fine, YOUR fine
NOBODY gets to heaven
except through Jesus
He won’t force you,
you have to accept.
This same Bible also has
predictions about the future…
The end IS near and there will
be NO time to accept Jesus
afterwards… the time to accept
Him is NOW!
Knowing AND following
what the Bible says is the
difference in you spending
eternity in peace and comfort,
or torment and torture.
Your
choice.