Perspective: Has the Bible Been Corrupted?

Passion City Church DC Podcast

Passion City Church

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🗓️ 22 March 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Can we trust the Bible? Critics and scholars have argued against the infallibility of the Bible, but what does actual historical evidence say? Scholars have written arguments trying to debunk the truth of Scripture, but they do not stand up to the weight of the reality. Today, Pastor Ben Stuart shows us how we know the Bible has not been corrupted and reminds us it was for our salvation that the Scriptures were preserved. Key Verses // 2 Peter 1:16-21; John 1:1-2; Isaiah 53:1-12

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Passion City Church DC podcast to learn more about
0:06.1	Passion City Church including our gathering times in Atlanta and Washington DC.
0:10.6	Visit us online at passioncitychurch.com. Today's talk comes from Pastor Ben Stewart.
0:19.2	Well on Christmas Day this past year we were sitting at home enjoying opening
0:25.2	presence and we got a knock on the door and so my wife opened the door and it was
0:30.0	one of our neighbors and he came by and said hey I have a question. I just read a
0:35.9	book by Bart Airman who's a textual critic textual critics evaluate the
0:40.5	ancient manuscripts we have of the Bible as it was handwritten before the
0:45.5	printing press and he said I read this book by Bart Airman a textual critic
0:49.1	entitled Miss quoting Jesus who changed the Bible and why and he said so I
0:53.6	just want to understand do we have in this book what was written back then and
1:02.6	he was like how do you have any confidence that what you're holding in your
1:06.6	hand is even remotely close to the word spoken by a guy named Jesus two
1:12.4	thousand years ago and he came by the house because he was like I know y'all
1:15.8	you're nice neighbors and you've built your life on Jesus I'm just genuinely
1:18.7	concerned like do you know what you're doing sort of thing can we talk about
1:21.6	textual criticism and my wife was like let me get my husband and she got me
1:25.5	and Chris Tatum and I sat out front and on Christmas day talked about that
1:31.4	question that maybe in various ways you've heard presented by friends or
1:35.3	assumed by co-workers how do you have any confidence that what you're holding in
1:41.9	your hands right now is even remotely related to what Jesus said back then I
1:48.0	mean this thing was copied by hand for hundreds of years before the
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