Let's go.

I am actually not in the studio live today, I still have something for you, we've already

offered you kind of in the commemoration of sorts of our 30th anniversary year for

stand a reason. We've offered a classic from the past, part one, in this session we're

going to give you part two of that Ambassador Basic Curriculum classic, the Bible

has God spoken. Here it is. In the last talk about the Bible, we faced a very simple question,

what kind of book is the Bible? Is the Bible a book by men about God or is it a book from God in

some sense to men? Is it primarily a human authored book or is it primarily a divine authored book?

And I offered six marks of this Bible's supernatural origin. I said there was supernatural prophecy,

there was a supernatural unity, there was a supernatural insight to the big issues that resonated

with our deepest intuitions about reality. I said there was an index to history that recorded

supernatural events. I mentioned the Bible changes lives in a supernatural fashion that the

Bible is a fighter, has a supernatural survival through time and persecution. But I qualified my

point about the Bible's inspiration early on in a way that's really important because I said

that inspiration, what I was making the case for, applies really only to the autographs, that is,

only to the originals. But we don't have the originals, do we? We have copies of the originals.

Actually, we don't have copies of the original. We have copies of copies of copies of copies of the

originals. And that raises a challenge in the challenges. Look, the Bible, for all that you

might say about the divine inspiration of the originals, all of those six points, the Bible was

still copied and re-copied and re-copied so many times. How is it possible to have confidence

that what we have now in the scriptures, in the copies bears any resemblance to the original

that you claim was inspired? The Bible has been corrupted through all its translations,

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