Apologetics 6 – part 3
trustworthy C
(Continued reasons in support of the trustworthiness of the New Testament)
Messianic prophecies fulfilled
https://jewsforjesus.org/answers/top-40-most-helpful-messianic-prophecies/
Psalm 22
Read: Verses 1-18 etc
how Psalm 22 lines up with the New Testament:
https://blog.logos.com/2012/04/5-allusions-to-psalm-22-at-christs-crucifixion/
How does Isaiah 53 line up with the New Testament?
https://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/guzik_david/StudyGuide2017-Isa/Isa-53.cfm
Jesus’ prediction of the destruction of the temple :
Matthew 24:1-2
Temple destruction ( rock pic ) ( massive wall stone 39ftx13ft )
Heroidian temple proper does not exist.
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365 prophecies
– in control
– beyond ‘control ‘
Cross /crucifixion
Place of birth
Lineage
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Variant readings – textual criticism ( text corrected according to discovery of early manuscripts – demonstrated by these 2 major examples ) :
Mark 16 – the long ending (9-20)
John 8 – woman caught in adultery.
https://www.desiringgod.org/messages/neither-do-i-condemn-you–3
1. The story is missing from all the Greek manuscripts of John before the fifth century.
2. All the earliest church fathers omit this passage in commenting on John and pass directly from John 7:52 to John 8:12.
3. In fact, the text flows very nicely from 7:52 to 8:12 if you leave out the story and just read the passage as though the story were not there.
4. No Eastern church father cites the passage before the tenth century when dealing with this Gospel.
5. When the story starts to appear in manuscript copies of the Gospel of John, it shows up in three different places other than here (after John 7:36; 7:44; 21:25), and in one manuscript of Luke, it shows up after 21:38.
6. Its style and vocabulary is more unlike the rest of John’s Gospel than any other paragraph in the Gospel.
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CONCLUSION
OT AND NT – SUMMARY
OT – reliable – Scribes extraordinarily meticulous copying habits
– double check by people well versed
– trustworthy
– medical accuracy ( apparently super natural
knowledge unique ( non- Egyptian),
Devoid of the superstitious,
Modern verification
– archaeology – support
NT – reliable
– extreme number of manuscripts / consistent text
– early age ( Greek Maunuscript fragment P52 dated A.D. 118-132)
– trustworthy A
– writers attest that they understood that they were recording
SCRIPTURE
– archaeology – ossuary, Pilate stone, accurate people and places
– Trustworthy B
– abundance and power ( so many world languages, durability)
– blatantly honest
– internal evidence
– prophecy evidence (list – Thompson chain bible?)