How to Know the Bible is the Word of God by Adrian Rogers
The Bible is not the book of the month-- it is the book of the ages.
Religious platitude.
Man only has three problems: sin, sorrow, and death.
Religious platitude.
This is the only book in the world that has the answer to these problems.
No True Scotsman fallacy.
There are those like the cults that distort [the bible].”
Hypocrisy.
There are others who dissect it, reading it like a math book rather than a love story.
A story of compulsory love inspired by fear.
Why believe the Bible? Because your salvation depends upon it.
Religious platitude.
Your growth depends upon the word of God. Your sanctification depends upon the world of God. Your assurance depends upon the word of God.
Three religious platitudes.
We can believe the word of God (1) because of the scientific accuracy of the Bible.
Logical fallacy of composition.
Some say: "Of course the Bible is not scientifically accurate because it was was written thousands of years ago."
Logical fallacy of strawman argument.
Before you say that, make sure of two things--make certain that you know science and make certain that you know the word of God. The Bible does not always agree with science--and for that I am infinitely glad. If you've been to Paris, you may have visited the Louvre. There are 3 1/2 miles of books on science and almost every one of them is obsolete. Science is changing. What is scientific fact in one era is not in another era. In 1861 there was an anti-God French academy of science that gave 51 facts that prove the Bible wrong. Today, more than 100 years later, there is not a reputable scientist who believes one of those 51 facts. Aren't you glad the Bible did not agree with that science? Had the Bible agreed with that science the Bible would have been wrong. Give the scientists enough time, perhaps they'll catch up with the Bible.
See the logical fallacy of composition above: science is not wrong because it has rejected old ideas. The bible is not right because some wrong claims about it have been disproved.
The Bible teaches about science:
The earth suspended in space (Job 26:7). How did Job know that?
He got it wrong, didn’t he, because god corrects him later on:
Job 38:4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
Job 38:6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
Job 38:7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
And he should have known this:
1 Samuel 2:8 The pillars of the earth are the LORD's, and he hath set the world upon them.
Job 9:6 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
Earth is a sphere. Isa 40:22. How did Isaiah know that?
It says the earth is a circle. Where does “sphere” come from?
The stars are without number (human number, uncountable) [Jer 33:22].
It’s not true that the stars are without number. We don’t know that number, but if we are going to be literal about it, there is a number, and it is constantly changing.
How did they know? All scripture given by inspiration of God (2 Ti 3:16).
Religious platitude.
Now move into physiology and biology. Blood is in the life. We that that for granted. It was not until 1615 that William Harvey discovered that blood even circulates in the body--the incredible properties of human blood. In relatively recent times when men got sick they would attribute it to blood. The barber pole represented a bandage. They would bleed men in the hopes that they would get well. The father of our country George Washington got sick and they bled him three times. They bled him to death. Lev 17:14, blood--it is the life of all flesh, an incredible scientific statement.
It’s pretty obvious that if you don’t take out too much blood a person will survive, and if you take out too much the person will die. There is nothing in Leviticus that says blood circulates. This is not an “incredible statement” at all. There is nothing surprising about it.
In the Middle Ages there was a Bubonic Plague, called the Black Plague. 1 out of 4 died. They could not figure out what caused it. It was one of the greatest natural disasters in human history. The word of God was the solution. If a man had the plague quarantine him (Lev 13:46).
Leviticus recommends quarantine for leprosy, not for bubonic plague.
1840, in hospitals in Vienna 1 out of 5 mothers were dying of infection. They would go in for inspections and they were getting infected. Doctors did not wash their hands. Dr. Semmelweis said from now on, you will wash your hands before you examine. They would go from the morgue to make examinations. 1 out of 84 died. After this policy 11 out of 12 died. Then he said, you will wash between every examination. Doctors said, no we can't do that. Nu 19:14-19, when men die in a tent they shall be unclean 7 days (time for the bacteria to die) every open vessel is unclean, if you touch one slain, or a dead body or bone or one in the grave, they shall be unclean 7 days. They had no idea about a germ. God says don't contaminate. Edited sermon notes Adrienne Rogers: How to Know the Bible is the Word of God
But all it reports is ideas of uncleanliness and washing rituals that in some cases would have helped but in other cases would not have helped. There is no discrimination that makes this modern science, it is the results of observing correlations, in other words they were doing “ancient science” with nothing in the way of variable control.
I would be impressed if the bible said “Wash you hands before eating because disease can be caused by things too small for you to see”.
"The Bible is not a science book but it is scientifically accurate." ~ Adrian Rogers
The earth did not exist before light. There never was a global flood. There never was a time of just two people.
Have you got a logically valid argument for your claim?
Stuart
