Thus we do not grant the non-Christian the right to sit in judgment on God's word as to whether or not it meets his approval.

He is a creature and as a creature he is subject to the word of his Creator, he is to believe it, he is to obey it, he is never to judge it. Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson.

From electricity that keeps the lights on to petroleum that fuels millions of cars, to the sun that brings warmth to the globe,

God has given our planet an amazing array of power sources that we all rely on every day, but there's none more trustworthy than the one you

carry to church each week.

John MacArthur focuses on that power source today as he begins a series titled, Is the Bible Reliable?

But first, John, on one of last week's broadcasts,

you said that when you speak to a national audience,

one of the points you always want to make

is that the Bible is the Supreme Authority.

And that relates to the series we're launching today called Is the Bible Reliable?

Because the Bible can't be the supreme authority if it isn't reliable.

So how do we know that the Bible is reliable?

Well, I think the primary way you know the Bible is reliable is by its claim. From the beginning to the end, the Bible

claims for itself to be the word of God. So you only have one of two choices.

Either the Bible is true as it claims to be,

or it's lying.

And if it's lying, you can throw it in the trash heap

with all other false religions.

But the problem is to anyone who studies

the Bible and reads the Bible and looks into the word of God, it declares its own

validity in magnificent ways.

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