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THE BIBLE: PART 2
Isaiah 53 | 07/30/2023
There is
1) Has the Bible Been Changed or Corrupted?
• Apply the science of
• Blackout Periods for Ancient Texts:
o Herodotus =
years.
o Caesar’s Gallic War =years.
o Livy’s Roman History =years.
o Homer’s Iliad =years.
o The New Testament = Betweenand years.
• Number of Ancient Manuscripts:
o Herodotus
= copies
o Caesar’s Gallic War =copies
o Livy’s Roman History =copies
o Homer’s Iliad =copies
o The New Testament =copies.
• Application: Deeply cherish your copy of the .
2) Is the Bible Divinely Inspired?
• There were over
• The important events of the
• Application: Rejoice that God has
3) If the Bible written for a different culture, is it still applicable to our lives today?
• The Culture was actually very similar to what it is today.
• The Bible was more counter-cultural in the Greco-Roman Culture than it is for us today.
• Application: Delight that God has shown us how to
Excerpts from Isaiah 53
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief…Surely, he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows…
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But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.
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He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.
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By oppression and judgment, he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people?
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…although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth… yet he bore the sin of many