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Is the Bible Historically Reliable? http://www.timesofisrael.com/archaeologists-say-one-of-king-davids-palaces-found/. Paul Johnson, A Historian Looks at Jesus, speech to Dallas Seminary, 1986. Matthew 4:4, 7, 10. John 5:39. John 17:17. 2 Timothy 3:16. 2 Peter 1:21. Bruce M. Metzger, The Text of the New Testament (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), 38. Quoted in Erwin Lutzer, The Da Vinci Deception (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale, …

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Did the Old Testament Accurately Predict Jesus as the Messiah? Ray C. Stedman, God’s Loving Word (Grand Rapids, MI: Discovery House, 1993), 50. Isaiah 52:13—53:12; Zechariah 12—14. Isaiah 9:6, NIV Isaiah 7:14. Jeremiah 23:5. Micah 5:2. Isaiah 53:3. Psalm 41:9. Zechariah 11:12. Isaiah 53:7. Zechariah 12:10. Isaiah 53:12. Isaiah 53:9. Psalm 16:10. Luke 19:10. Portions of Isaiah …

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Does the Bible Foretell Future Events Accurately? D. James Kennedy and Jerry Newcombe, What If The Bible Had Never Been Written? (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1998), 213. Josh McDowell, The New Evidence That Demands A Verdict (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1999), 12-13. Portions of Deuteronomy 28, NCV. Amos 9:14-15, NCV. Ezekiel 36:16-23; Luke 21:24. Jeremiah 9:16. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem. …

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Is the Bible’s Portrayal of People, Places and Events Accurate? Paul Johnson, A History of the Jews (New York: Harper, 1988), 27. R.K. Harrison, Introduction to the Old Testament (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1969), 201. “The discovery of the codified Laws of Hammurabi (ca. 1700 B.C.), the Lipit-Ishtar code (ca. 1860 B.C.) the Laws of Eshnunna …

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Is the Bible Consistent with Science? Hebrews 11:3 Robert Jastrow, God and the Astronomers, (London: W. W. Norton, 1992), 14. George Smoot and Keay Davidson, Wrinkles in Time (New York: Avon, 1993), 17. Genesis 1; Isaiah 45:12; Colossians 1; Hebrews 1. Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time (New York: Bantam, 1990), 125. Fred Hoyle, “Let there …

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Fred Hoyle (British astrophysicist)“A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond …

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Does the Bible Demonstrate Divine Authorship? http://www.why-the-bible.com/bible.htm. Francis A. Schaeffer, He Is There and He Is Not Silent (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale, 1972), 60. Isaiah 52:13-53:12; Zechariah chapters 12 through14. Luke 2:1-22; Matthew 1:18-2:15; Acts 10:43. John 1:11.

God’s Heavenly Love 1 Richard Sigmund, My Time in Heaven (New Kingdom: Whitaker House, 2004), 120.2 Howard Storm, My Descent into Death (New York: Doubleday, 2005), 26-27.3 Mary C. Neal, To Heaven and Back (Colorado Springs: WaterBrook Press, 2011), 70-73.4 Crystal McVea, Walking up in Heaven (New York: Howard Books, 2013), 164.5 Eben Alexander, Proof of Heaven (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012), 40, 71.6 John Burke, Imagine Heaven (Grand Rapids: BakerBooks, 2015), …

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