We can amass all the prophetic evidences, scientific evidence, miraculous evidence, historical

archaeological evidence, the evidence of transformed lives.

And in the end, while certainly all of those are reasonable and a true representation of

Scripture, they cannot take the scales off the blind eyes, they cannot give life to the dead

soul.

Welcome to Grace to You with John MacArthur. I'm your host, Phil Johnson. Consider these

interesting nuggets from history. The printing press that made Voltaire's

godless philosophy available to the world in the 18th century later printed the Word of God.

And this one about the philosopher David Hume, who was highly critical of Christianity for most

of his life, 20 years after Hume died, the Bible Society of Edinburgh

held its charter meeting in the very room where he died. Some vivid and ironic illustrations

of how God's word has triumphed over human wisdom time and time again, and yet most people

reject the Bible. The question is,

why? Why are unbelievers indifferent, if not hostile, to God's truth? Well, John MacArthur

has five specific reasons to show you today. It's part of his helpful study called Making a

case for the Bible. So open your Bible to 1st Corinthians

1 as John begins today's lesson. It was years ago in my life that I was asked to write a little

book, and the original title of that little book was Focus on Fact. You've probably never seen it.

It didn't last very long.

It came out in another edition with another title a couple of years later and that title was

Why I Trust the Bible.

And as I was preparing to write that book about why I trust the Bible, which is really

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