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 Potter Books
sold world wide equals
400,000,000.
2 Peter 1:20-21 (ESV)
Knowing this first of all, that no
prophecy of Scripture comes from
someone’s own interpretation. 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 partial and
complete copies of the Greek new
testament.
The Word of God
• There have been thousands of
translations of the Bible in over 500
different languages. Hundreds of
English Translations.
Why so many English translations?
• Manuscripts continue to be found.
• Language changes.
KJV Translators said
"Indeed without translation 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 mentioned by
Isaiah, to whom when a sealed book was
delivered, with this motion, "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 translations?
• Manuscripts continue to be found.
• Language changes.
• 99.9% are valuable
KJV Translators said
”We do not deny, nay we affirm and avow,
that the very meanest translation 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. Augustine saith, that
variety of Translations is profitable for the
finding out of the sense of the Scriptures:
so diversity of signification 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 profitable for teaching, for
reproof, for correction, 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
writing of the New Testament
Adapted from Dr. Johnny
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
 Plato…earliest
manuscript
known is 1,200Adapted
years
after his
from Dr. Johnny
Hunt
writing.
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 1,400Adapted
years
after
his
from Dr. Johnny
Hunt
writing.
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 profitable
 To know what is right ( teaching)
 To
know what is not right
(reproof)
 To
know how to get right
(correction)
 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
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What’s Next?
Sunday Bible Studies (9:40a)
Precept Bible Study (Thursdays, 7p)
Daily reading/listening
o Smart Phone
Journaling
Memorizing
Bible Study Group