Can We Trust the Bible?

Real life presents the Jack Kibs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. Hey you guys we're going to dive into 10 reasons why you should believe in the Bible and why you should start thinking about it right now so stay tuned. You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to Jack Kibs.com slash podcast. Today if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us that's like saying amen or yes then that rating will encourage others to listen. Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Kibs. Well hey everybody listen glad to have you with this podcast right here with us and you're probably going to see this a lot right now for a lot of reasons but one of them is the very fashionable well-designed cover to the new book that I am not only excited about because I believe in it I wrote this book but I'm supposed to promote it because I'm under contract to do that very thing and so it's with the wonderful people at Harvest House publishers and they have been remarkable in fact they've been so remarkable I do believe we've signed at least two additional new book contracts with them and there's going to be a study guide that's going to be coming out for this as well that's in the works right now but living in the days of deception and it's it's nearly 300 pages and I'm very excited about it it God blessed it it took about a year and a half to do and but it's got great topics and very very very very so grateful to give a shout out to a former director of the CIA and of course the 70th Secretary of State and US history Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was kind enough to read the book and write the forward to the book and a little back back behind the scene stuff we were going to send him a part of the book because you kind of don't expect these guys of their of their caliber to read the whole book and he said nope I have to read the whole book and I thought that exactly that's exactly who he is Mike Pompeo a man of incredible integrity had to read the whole book and so we're grateful but look forward everywhere if you would wherever as they say these days wherever fine books are sold and that means Hobby Lobby that means Amazon that means Walmart that means a Christian books as well that means and it's coming out by the way an audio book audible dot com will be coming out as well and producer is showing me a pre-order you can pre-order at Amazon right now and if you do that by the way it's really I've learned so much doing this because if you pre-order at Amazon I don't know why Amazon is the God or the king of all this stuff but forget about New York Times best selling books that New York Times that's out the door nobody even cares anymore it's Amazon yes I know Amazon is a demonic nut job company but everybody who I'm speaking to right now buys everything from Amazon and if you doubt it just go look at your front porch there's gonna be some piece of junk you ordered on your porch from Amazon look we are the children of Amazon it appears in this world of ours I personally don't like it I actually don't do it Lisa does it for me so but you can order the book on Amazon and here's the fun thing about it the computer brain thing at Amazon records the book sales and then it pushes it into categories and it's all done automatically electronically and that bumps it up bumps it up on charts on Amazon and then companies decide hey when a book breaks this particular threshold buy it and carry it in our stores they don't care that a Christian wrote the book all they care about is making money we don't care about them making money we care about getting the truth out so if you want to help join me in getting out how to discover and to discern what deception is living in these days of deception the word days DAZ like you've been smacked upside the head you got stars spinning around your head your eyes are all blurry well this book is written to help you with that listen today we're gonna run through something that is pretty cool and that is something that I'm indebted to to a dear dear brother a man that I love dearly and if you have been able to visit some of our church teaching locations as often as I can I tried to have with us a local Southern California guy Charlie Campbell's go to for me love him Charlie Campbell Charlie Campbell he speaks he's the college professor that your kids need but he's brilliant he's the college professor that your kid needs but he's earned it he's the college professor that your kid needs to be influenced by he can do it Charlie's awesome and so I'm gonna be hitting on these ten points but go to his website always be ready dot com what a great website right always be ready dot com love you Charlie keep it up you're doing an amazing job Charlie Campbell great great great great guy number one in this topic of Christianity the Bible faith how is it Jack you've often said that there are religions in the world but Christianity is not one of them but every but if I look it up in the Webster's dictionary Christianity is considered a religion that's Webster's problem that's that's a mistake if you truly analyze and apply critical thinking and critical analysis to the claims of Islam for example you come to the conclusion that is a religion the same rules apply to atheism you come to the conclusion that atheism is in fact a religious system it's a religious belief system even in Judaism now it doesn't need to be this way if the Jews would wake up and follow the scriptures but as it is now with the Jews following traditions over the very word of God the Old Testament and knew that though Judaism is in fact a religion these are all Jovo witnesses Mormonism behind Confucius what's up shintoism is a big deal of course mainly in Japan but it's a big deal what else whatever it is it doesn't matter whatever it is Christianity is the only thing when properly studied and when applying critical thinking to it is actually not a religion allow me to be a blunt and a little bit lovingly sarcastic Christianity properly understood is quite an insult to the morality of man Christianity is as C. S. Lewis said the great C. S. Lewis said that the reason why he became a Christian is because when he studied all the religions of the world Christianity was that belief system with that was just queer enough because he said there is no way that man would have fought this up on his own why because it doesn't make man look good and almost every book of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation you've got man stumbling over himself being the buffoon that he is and needing redemption so how do we know why should we even pay attention to the Bible let me give you these 10 considerations that I am plagiarizing from Charlie Campbell I'm gonna give you a little bit he'll give you a lot of it at his website always be ready dot com okay so number one fulfillment this is pretty cool stuff why does the Bible stand alone in Bible prophecy the Bible stands alone so dramatically in Bible prophecy that scholars speculate those who are degree to doctorate or experts in eschatology that is the words of future events eschatology the science or the study of words of future events the Bible they argue is somewhere between 27% to 30% eschatological meaning that it is Bible prophecy and that it is either enjoyed fulfillment or it will enjoy fulfillment and so you have Bible prophecy and what's so amazing about that is take them the minimal number take 27% if 27% of your Bible so 27% of your Bible is prophetic you're looking at this much of your Bible that is Bible prophecy that means over a quarter of your Bible is of prophetic nature speaking about future events now some of those events have come to pass we know that for a fact I'm not going to be labor you can look at look at them in detail by the way it will take you a very long time and to that I will commend to you the prophecy knowledge handbook by Dr. John Wolveritt the prophecy knowledge handbook by Dr. by Professor John Wolveritt and so but fulfillment of Bible prophecy all of the prophecies in the Bible that were prophesied that have been fulfilled have been fulfilled exactly as they were prophesied in other words they are literal no matter what your opinion is it's irrelevant the prophecies that have been stated have been fulfilled literally and those that remain we must assume based upon consistency or constancy that those also will be fulfilled literally and I'll give you just two examples number one is that the Messiah of the world would be born in Judah in the land of Judah in the nation of Israel and in a little village called Bethlehem that had to happen guess what it happened another Bible prophecy says that the temple in Jerusalem the epicenter of all Jewish worship and sacrifice would not only some to be torn down that the house of God would be destroyed Jesus said that Matthew chapter 23 and 24 but that not one stone would be left upon another every single massive stone I've seen those stones with my eyes maybe you've been to Israel and you've seen those stones I mean some of the stones are literally the size of an 18 wheeler box car in the back of a truck or a train massive massive Bible says not one stone is going to be left upon another that actually happened so do keep that in mind number two we not only go from the fulfillment of Bible prophecy Quran camp boasts that the Book of Mormon cannot boast that the Tibetan Book of the dead cannot boast that no other books can boast that the Jova witnesses cannot boast that only the Bible can boast that fulfilled prophecy leads us to number two which is a blast 22 times I've taken people many many many people to Israel on our tours of Israel and every one of our locations every single one why are they chosen as our locations because in every spot I teach the Bible there why there because it is an archaeological site how do we know because they dug up coinage pottery inscriptions scrolls or even like Magdala Magdala Mary Magdala Mary of Magdala where a flood came rushing down through the valley that descends from Cana down to the northern Galilee not too long ago and washed away tons of debris and unearthed the very first century village of Magdala and archaeological discovery Masada is there Miguel say what's Miguel you heard you've heard of the Valley of Armageddon the Valley of Miguel that is an actual archaeological dig and I could take you we could fly right now from LA 15 hour flight and then about an hour and 20 minute drive to tell Magdala and we will stand on the rocks and the stables of Solomon's chariot and horse stables that are there the Valley of Magdala you can look from there and then we can just go to the left and go up the mountain to Mount Carmel and not only that we can go to Mount Carmel where the Bible tells us there that there was a spring that ran with water in the days of Elijah and what do we find there's a spring of water that runs there exactly as the Bible said thousands of years ago archaeological fact and discovery the beautiful thing about the Bible is you can and by the way I do believe this is still true don't quote me but when I was younger the number one book of of archaeological I don't say archaeological and authenticity but it was archaeological the Smithsonian Institute would read the Bible and then they would get in an airplane and go to the Middle East and dig around and see if it was true and lo and behold bingo there it is there is the wall of nibi kinesir in Babylon for example right outside of Baghdad that kind of stuff Bible 100% archaeological evidence is overwhelming no other book in the world can boast that but the Bible nobody else number three is its internal consistencies the internal consistencies of the Bible are amazing because the Bible is 66 individual books now listen my Muslim friends will tell me that's ridiculous that's why I don't believe in the Bible why because it's 66 different books so there's got to be all kinds of mistakes with that while there's not oh well you guys say there's 40 different authors that's correct oh there's got to be inconsistencies well there's not in fact it's written over about 1,500 to 1,800 years span okay and what you're talking about is authorship within a decade within a decade to 15 two decades from the very living and life of Jesus written by eyewitness accounts you don't have that about the Quran Muhammad is dead for at least I think 200 years before the Quran ever surfaces my friends so don't lay that on me that's not gonna work the Bible is the most authenticated authenticated book in the world and it's not only because it says it is but its consistencies are so wonderfully perfect where you've got for example Jeremiah a Green with Amos a Green with Ezekiel a Green with the Book of Revelation a Green with Jesus and John's Gospel a Green with Moses and Genesis 3 how do you do that when some of these authors never even lived in the same era some of them not even on the same continent but there is this remarkable incredibly awesome unity of the scriptures why how do we know this how could somebody do this somebody did not do this the Bible tells us that the scripture scriptures were breathed by God the Holy Spirit through man the scriptures were given man didn't make it up God used man to write it but God inspired the man who wrote it now think about the miraculous working power of that how does Peter write his first and second epistle without messing it up he poor Peter I love the guy messed up everything he did but he didn't miss up his book because the Bible tells us that the Spirit of God was the one that authored the book and you can read more about that in Paul's writings to Timothy number four is extra biblical writings what do we have about extra biblical writings meaning what other things outside the Bible confirm the Bible's existence great question easy answer and for the best answer ever if you're really serious about this and you've got some coin to throw down you can fly to London highly recommended you should go to London and take three days you need three days to go through the British Museum of History and there either walk it yourself or go to the to the era or the the epochs of biblical timeline and you will be blown away man this is fun to say you'll be standing there in the British Museum and you're looking at Sonecker Sonecker's scroll Nebia Kinezzar's cylindrical scroll speaking to you as they rolled it into the wet sand in Babylonian you will find documentation there of somebody by the name and title of Queen Esther by the way those of you who might live in the area of Oxford University England if you go right across the streets from the famous cafe that forgot the name of the cafe that's across the street from the Ashmalion the Ashmalion Museum walk in there turn left get down to the end of the hallway turn right and right there in the corner is a writing down at about knee level there's documentation there from Queen Esther right out of the Bible authentic not these are not knockoffs and so you can look at things like that where there are the writings of historians like Flavius Josephus you can look at the writings of the church fathers so you can read those guys 100 AD 135 AD 185 212 AD 300 AD you can read them there's tons what about the Roman what about now I know a lot of people I'm gonna I'll drop something that's very controversial a lot of people don't like it a lot of people freak out about it because it makes a particular denomination look bad but no one's been able to disprove it but not only this book if you don't like this book then pick some other books but just the the annals the annals of Rome at the Vatican their volume of writing extra biblical writing that's they're on display either in the Vatican or in the vaults are absolutely awesome one is called the arco volume arco a r k o and it is a collection of writings between a herod Caesar and it was an investigation that was launched by Rome regarding this huge scandalous deal that happened about this carpenter who was crucified what in the world is going on Caesar pilot I want an answer what happened and you can go go ahead and look and read at the arco volume that was discovered in Constantinople now it's been Islamisized so it's called Istanbul but it used to be called Constantinople but there's many other books on top of that so do keep that in mind number five is science and discovery well we'll mention discovery a couple of times because I love it the book is a book of discovery but science or sciences and discovery it is and it's things like scientists and researchers such as Sir Isaac Newton who read claims in the Bible only to discover those claims were exactly true Newton said so himself he wrote about it by the way side note Sir Isaac Newton's the only guy that I know of in science that wrote a commentary on the book of Daniel pretty remarkable some guy by the name of Sir Robert Anderson picked up were Newton left off and Sir Robert Anderson was an inspector at Scotland Yard England and some people have speculated I don't know if this is true or not but some people have speculated that the character Indiana Jones is actually built really upon Sir Robert Anderson not enough that's true or not doesn't matter but Sir Robert Anderson was a brilliant man he wrote the book every Christian said on this book and every every non-Christian should on this book everybody in the world should on this book outside the Bible and that is the book The Coming Prince by Sir Robert Anderson the coming prince it's all about not only the advent of the Christ that would come but the anti Christ that's coming amazing work I believe he was knighted for that uh Robert Anderson Sir Robert Anderson but but sciences it was Christopher Columbus among other mariners by the way who believed that at certain times of the seasons the globe had currents that would flow at certain times of the year based upon not only not only weather seasons but wind and we also know that the ancient Polynesians figured out the same thing when you look at the Marys are Marys I don't know how you guys say it down down in New Zealand way the Kiwi way but the they were they were seafaring you're talking about the deep Polynesians that came up from and eventually you look at that region deep southern Pacific that eventually migrated northern north westerly to the Hawaiian Islands and all of them studied the fact that the waters and seasons had currents well Solomon in the book of Proverbs thousands of years earlier said oops by the way there's currents in the ocean you'd be smart to learn about those and put your dinghy on there and you can go to Hawaii not not bad advice um manuscript evidence this is kind of fun stuff look I'm going from the top of my head here so I might be a little up and not far the most documented book in the world outside the Bible the most documented book outside of the Bible in this entire world is Homer's Iliad and I believe there's something like I'll be generous I think there's 633 manuscripts available I think not more than that 633 most if you want to say what can we know for sure we can know for sure that Homer wrote the Iliad by the way we can't we don't know so sure about Shakespeare Shakespeare is a pretty famous dude but you know what we're not sure what he wrote because a lot of people wrote in his name and there's a lot of things that were lost and filled in and things that were filled in that weren't lost a lot of stuff made up we don't know we just know some stuff do you know that the most reliable research scrutinized documented book in the universe is over 13,000 manuscript copies and that is the Bible and you don't have to get sidelined by well was that new King James or old King James was it the NIV or the ESV we're talking about original languages Hebrew Greek Aramaic remarkable think about that by the way go ahead for a further study and look at the Dead Sea Scrolls there's a reason why in Jerusalem you go to the Museum of the Book and why you have the Bible there and why why it's why what they found in 1947 is so important to display to the entire world listen this is crazy I was on a plane one time with a bunch of people we're actually coming back we're coming from Israel to Toronto Canada Toronto to Los Angeles and on our air Canada flight the pilot announced ladies and gentlemen you might be happy to know as we leave Israel today that we have a very large portion of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the cargo bay of this aircraft that will be on display in North America and we like oh and crazy because we're flying with the Bible and that was pretty cool the Dead Sea Scrolls yeah to know about those things man because when they were discovered they didn't deviate one Iota from the old King James manuscripts think of that what you have to do in the old King James and what that ancient writing of the Dead Sea Scrolls revealed that in the manuscript translation into English it's spot on wow that was number six number seven is the just very quickly number seven is a good point Charlie Campbell will really develop this well and that is what I just call it is the defaming of man the Bible defames man if man wrote the book man would make himself the hero if man wrote the book he'd make himself look good man didn't write this book for his own intent in fact the Bible defames man it's the Bible that says all men are losers all men need salvation all men are lost all men by default are going to hell all men need to be forgiven and that's an amazing thing because we all know down deep inside that we do need forgiveness and that's exactly what the Bible says number eight is this the fact that the Apostles and the disciples from the first century most all of them suffered death by persecution don't you think if they were all playing a joke that somebody would say when they begin to cut your eyeballs out or burn you at the stake I was just kidding we just made it up not a one wow you know what a couple of months ago I was standing again in Oxford England and on that old cobblestone street in Oxford there's a black cross there's a black X it's only about this big and there's a plaque on the wall and it says this marks the spot where the church reformers stood up against the Anglican Church and demanded that the people have the Bible themselves and the church burned them to death right there and it's because you and I have a Bible today because of people like that that said listen can't lie against the truth even to cost me my life persecution think about that number nine the Bible applied makes for great nations God says in the Bible numerous times if you just follow me I'll make I'll make you a great nation you say Jack that's regarding Israel well everybody at this time of this podcast you need to pick one because there's a bunch of people griping and moaning and belly aching about Israel's not for real Israel doesn't count it's not a real nation it needs to be annihilated it should go away and the church is Israel the church is Israel that is so pathetically lame and unscriptural the church is not Israel Israel's not the church the two are totally separate the only thing that we haven't common is that we believe in the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob and that listen we must be saved by faith alone now Israel's waking up to this right now but bottom line is this remember this Jesus told Nicodemus the Jew you must be born again Nick to enter the kingdom of heaven or she's not gonna go and that's true for you and I the Jews need to wake up to their salvation that's in front of them to be saved you and I as Gentiles we are grafted into the tree of what's been promised to them they're not automatically saved because they're Jews they have to be born against it just like you and I do but when the Bible is applied it makes for a great nation John Adams wrote our founding father wrote that if anyone were to if any nation on earth took the words of the Bible and applied them as their form of government they would be a great nation that is so true in fact look how messed up America's America's in the toilet let's let's be honest let's just stop with the games everybody's driving around in their Lamborghinis and their Ferraris nobody owns those cars everybody's broke it's a joke oh my house is worth 10 million bucks it might be worth 10 million bucks but you can't buy it you can't buy it back you can't buy it from the bank you don't have the money oh we're a free nation really I don't think so we have no borders we're being invaded by the tens of thousands every week here just a hundred miles south of where I'm talking to you from we're not a great nation anymore you want to know why Alexa the Tocqueville said why the Frenchman came after the revolutionary war and if the French government sent him and said go find out why America's so great these guys are brand new and they're kicking everybody's tail they produce more they got factories their apples are bigger their corn is more productive what's with those guys so Alexa the Tocqueville and his agent came to America went around he took notes you can read it he wrote a book on it and he's writing and he's writing and writing and he goes I can't figure it out and he says I couldn't figure it out until I stepped into the churches in America and I got the answer that as long as America is good it will be great but if America is no longer good it will cease being great we're no longer good that's why we're no longer great make America great again sorry everybody I think that ship sailed I hope there's a recovery among the church the nation in my opinion is over the only hope is that the church is revived and that's that's a think of the Bible the wherever the Bible's applied there's a great nation Lisa and I were on vacation I got to move on I got to end Lisa and I were on vacation many years ago we've heard all this talk like you have Cayman Islands the Cayman Islands so we thought well we have a timeshare let's go see and visit the Cayman Islands so we went and we were going through customs to get into the country and there's a flag hanging there and the customs agent has a patch on his shoulder and I'm looking at it and it says about the Cayman Islands it says he has founded it upon the seas Psalm 24 verse 2 and I said to the border agent there's a Bible verse on your patch on your shoulder and he goes I love it he goes absolutely I go what's off what's that all about he goes we're a Bible Island man and I thought it was that was us we're a Bible Island man I thought how cool is that so proud of it he was try that in America today in US customs you get arrested by US customs finally number 10 is Jesus said what he said and he did what he said Jesus stop instead of the words of Jesus go to Matthew Mark Luke and John read the red letters of Jesus to get excited find out the claims that he claimed and see if he didn't follow through Jesus Christ is the reason why you should follow him not the Catholic Church not Calvary Chapel not first Baptist of Kalamazoo and not the assembly of God and not the Lutheran whatever's nope Jesus him hey listen totally out of time went way over way way over as always subscribe please if you like what you're hearing subscribe it really helps us if you subscribe keep your money but give us your subscription how's that it's free subscribe we don't want your money we want your vote okay and then like always it's we believe always that it's it's time for us to live out what we believe in it's time for real life this jack hips podcast as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities are listener supported will you consider partnering with us through a special gift go to jackhibs.com to learn more and stay connected