It'd be good for us to jump into the skies and talk about, yeah, the origins of the Bible,

how we got the Bible. Look, the Bible is different in that, unlike the Quran as an example,

unlike the Book of Mormon as an example, where we're told basically that it was sort of just

given, right? God and his wisdom put the Bible together in such a way that when you examine its contents,

it could only be supernatural in origin because of the diversity of authors, because of the time span,

and because of ultimately the cohesion that we find in it.

I think before we dive into that, Mark, the significance of having

a recognized authority. Like we can't overstate how that is the foundation for our faith as

believers. You remove that authority. We're in big trouble. Yeah, you know, we often talk about the Bible being inerrant, inspired, infallible, but if we begin to really break that down, you know, inerrant, that it's not even possible for it to have errors. We talk about how if you were to take a spelling test and get 100% on the spelling test, it's without errors, but it was possible for you to

have an error. It was possible for you to make a mistake. Well, the Bible is not just without errors,

but it's not even possible for it to have mistakes. And any sort of contradiction may be a paradox,

anything that may not make sense to you when put into its original language and understanding

with culture, customs tradition, or the author write to the original audience, when we begin

to understand these sort of things, then it comes alive and it begins to make sense.

So yeah, when we examine the Bible, we understand that the Bible tells us everything we need

to know about God and to live a life that is godly.

Without it, then every man is left to do that, which is right in their own eyes. That's

Judge's 176. So we need to have a transcendent word from a transcendent being that can stand

the test of time, and therefore the message never changes. So to answer your question

directly, right? Yeah, so we need the Word of God to understand anything with a moral basis. Without

it, then it's absolute chaos, which is what we have today. You know, Ray, you always remind people

when you're open-air preaching or even witnessing and people bring up

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