The Bible contains history and when it contains history it's right. The Bible contains science and when the Bible talks about science the Bible is right.

The Bible talks about ethics. The Bible talks about practical wisdom and all throughout history these things have been verified

as true. Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson.

When it comes to finding a spouse, raising kids, and serving in your church, you'd probably say

the Bible is a trustworthy guide.

Certainly if you're a Christian, God's words should lead you in every part of life, but how would you explain that trust to an

unbeliever? If someone asks you why you believe every word of the Bible, what would you say?

Consider that on today's broadcast, John MacArthur's lesson just might bolster your faith

in God's word like never before as he continues his series titled, Is the Bible Reliable?

And with the lesson now, here's John.

We're continuing in our study of a general subject

is the Bible believable.

And we're studying our God-breathed Bible, the doctrine of inspiration.

We believe this book is the breath of God that he breathed out even the words.

And we said that in studying the inspiration of the Bible we would study two facets.

First of all, definition and secondly defense. We would define it and then we would defend

it. Now I want to go to the second step, then I want to defend it.

And we're going to just kind of imagine that we're in a courtroom

and we're going to call in some people to give testimony

to the veracity and the truthfulness and the authoritative

infallibility of the Bible. We're going to in fact hear from three different

witnesses. The first is a multiple of people. The second is a single one and the third again a single one.

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