Internal & External Evidences of the Bible’s Reliability

While Dan Chaney is still in Kenya, one of our elders, Randy Baker delivered our am sermon this morning. Randy’s sermon was on the Internal & External Evidences of the Bible’s Reliability.

Below is a copy of my notes of Randy’s sermon. Although these will give you an idea of what he spoke about, please note that I wasn’t able to jot down everything Randy said.

Scientific Accuracies of the Bible
1. Job 26:7 earth hangs on nothing
2. ISA 40:22 earth is round
3. Psa. 8:8 paths of sea
4. Eccles. 1:7 water circulation
5. Amos 9:6 water circulation
6. Gen. 2:1-2 First & 2 law of Thermodynamics
7. Psa 102:25-26 2d law of Thermodynamics
8. Psa. 19:4-6 the sun moves through a circuit
9. Job 28:24-25 weight to the wind
10. Dimensions of Noah’s ark
11. Lev. 15:13 living water
12. Ex 22:21 bacteria
13. Lev. Fat intake
14. Gen 17:12 8 day circumcision blood coagulation
15. Lev leprosy quarantine
16. Lev 17:11 life in blood
17. Prov. 17:22 link between mental & physical health

Manuscripts
1. Aristotle
2. Plato

Historians
1. Josephus
2. Tacitus
3. Pliny the younger
4. Suetonius

Archaeology
1. Hittites 1906
2. Ezra 1:1-4 Cyrus cylinder
3. Isa 40:28 Referring to Cyrus 160 years before he was born by name
4. Sumerian kings list cooberates (1) Long life spans before flood, (2)the Flood itself, and (3( Short life spans after flood
5. Pontus Pilate
6. Ossuary for Caiaphas